Comments on: Wigix wants to kill eBay

By: edhardy622

edhardy622 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:39:03 +0000

British law student sues Abercrombie-Fitch for disability discrimination.
http://www.abercrombieonsale.co.uk

By: Powersweller

Powersweller — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:09:20 +0000

Love the look and feel of Wigix and may add some stuff soon, am sure with a bit more experience gonna do well, personally I love the new look at http://www.Plunderhere.com as a great eBay alternative.

By: jedi

jedi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:15:02 +0000

I love wigix, which will give a very best experience of online shopping, it is not a site but nice auction house.
Visit for more info at http://www.wigix.me

By: Peter Leeflang

Peter Leeflang — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:05:31 +0000

I tested Wigix for months.

Unfortunately their superior technical skills, do not match their vision, so they are not generating any sales nor traffic of substance and that almost 1 1/2 year after their start.

The two main missing ”vision’ components which are critical due to their own choice of business model are:

- A missing vision on content acquisition. Wigix has largely either typed its own content of its million plus catalog entries or they have had rank amateurs with lttle subject experience who are no market players of significance add to their catalog.
What they need is a vision on acquisition and a drive to acquire major catalog content contributors. They also nede a ‘content pope’, who will make this happen.

- A missing vision on ‘copyright protection’ so protection of the intellectual property of content contributors. No significant content contributor will ever work with them if their text and images (valuable labor intensive content) is not protected. Same with protecting teh content of external parties, so their content does not get hijacked by Wigix users, like it happens now. A paltry reference to the US DMCA is all they can come up with, which is something any site can come up with in 5 minutes. This copyright requires ‘thinking outside the box’, thinking beyond laws, offering ore than just that (in order to compete with other sites) and putting significant resources to it, something that is not happening on Wigix.

Both these visions are ‘requirements’ due to Wigix’ unique concept of sharing revenue with content contributors. The fact that they recognize that ‘content’ is of value, requires that they follow up with acquiring it and protecting it, like no other site before.

By: Alan Rothstein

Alan Rothstein — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:05:08 +0000

Did you know that you can profit from Wigix without even selling products? Sign up for free and become a category expert, add products to the catalog for 5% profit sharing and sign up friends and make money on their profits.

https://www.wigix.com/index.php/user_registration/index/5966

By: Meghan

Meghan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:05:49 +0000

I came across this new auction site (www.yasfa.com) recently and was intrigued by the concept, a combination of online auction, social networking and charity. Looks like they built the site around ad revenue, since they don’t collect fees for themselves. They do collect referral fees to give back to their members.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:14:47 +0000

Is Wigix listed on the stock market anywhere , maybe by a parent company?

By: Mikey

Mikey — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:36:24 +0000

good luck to them

By: Patricia

Patricia — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:58:52 +0000

I just registered and was only required to put in the email address I use on paypal….no other paypal information was required.

By: sciencefare

sciencefare — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:55:13 +0000

In email exchanges with Bill Burnham who has posted above, I have learned that Wigix has now implemented SSL for the registration portion of the site.

I have checked this, and found that registration at Wigix IS now secure.

Mr. Burnham has indicated that further changes are forthcoming.

-sciencefare

By: CONAN OBRIEN

CONAN OBRIEN — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:49:43 +0000

Front page could use some work. I have a hard time taking a site seriously that uses generic stock photography on it’s main page.

By: David Kaspar

David Kaspar — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:54:36 +0000

I don’t see any SSL (https) either:

form action=”http://www.wigix.com/index.php/login/index” method=”post”

By: sciencefare

sciencefare — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:00:16 +0000

@ Bill Burnham above:

You stated “As to the security concerns expressed by the last poster, rest assured Wigix does in fact use SSL encryption for personal data.”

Well Bill, I can not “rest assured”, because at no point is SSL invoked. There is no security, there is no encryption, there is no “https://” at all.

If Wigix does in fact use SSL, why is it not apparent Bill? Why does it appear that the site DOES NOT use SSL?

-sciencefare

By: trans9net

trans9net — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:46:24 +0000

In any online transaction the method of authentication and level of trust is of utmost importance and if you can’t guaranttee that then your aim of convenience is defeated.

By: Bill Burnham

Bill Burnham — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:11:08 +0000

Just a preface: I am an investor in Wigix so take whatever I say with a bog grain of salt. I think what really differentiates Wigix from some of the models cited about are the community and user generated content features. There’s a lot to do on Wigix other than trading and same can not be said for other sites. Personally, I think that the portfolio tracking and community features will likely get more traction than trading at first due to liquidity issues, however since there’s no cost to listing items on Wigix we hope to see people use it as a no-cost way to at least keep EBay honest and their options open. As to the security concerns expressed by the last poster, rest assured Wigix does in fact use SSL encryption for personal data. The EBay/Paypal information is totally voluntary and not required to register. It will be used (ironically) in an as yet unreleased feature that should result in dramatically better trust and safety than you can currently get on other sites.