tooltimes
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posted on January 6, 2003 05:43:50 PM new
Is it just me or has Carnaby been down all afternoon? I think today is the day that the FVF's start. Seems like it would be better to change over the site late at night.
Carnaby is a great site and is what online auction site should look like.
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kenzy
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posted on January 6, 2003 06:12:32 PM new
Carnaby started to go down yesterday... the site would load, but you couldn't bring up any listings except through SEARCH.
Now it's down hard... even the Seller's Board (which is on a separate server) is not responding. This is the same sort of thing that happened with Gold's Auction and Dutchbid.com.
Wish I knew just what the heck was going on. Is Carnaby kaput, or are they just having problems implementing software changes for the final value fees?
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tooltimes
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posted on January 7, 2003 08:27:48 AM new
Still down now. That's a long time for a site to be down. I guess it wasn't that stable?
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tooltimes
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posted on January 7, 2003 01:58:50 PM new
It's kind of indredible that the Carnaby isn't posting any info about the problem at all. It's almost lke no one cares at all.
Reminds me a little of when the now-defunct AuctionCow went down for days a while back.
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After reading 'Jess the Moderator's' recent post on Moo ( thanks Jess, that was a classy thing to do ) I'm beginning to form a theory on the disappearance of Carnaby.
There was a natural gas leak at Carnaby and everyone there is in Heaven. Whadda think? Plausible?
I can see a site going down for an extended period of time but I can not fathom the lack of communication from any remaining Carnaby brass.
[ edited by tooltimes on Jan 7, 2003 04:39 PM ]
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reality1
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posted on January 7, 2003 05:09:44 PM new
Heck it reminds me more of when nobidding.com closed down in the middle of a click for points promo and never said another word about it.
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tooltimes
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posted on January 8, 2003 10:22:57 AM new
What an unglorious end to a glorious auction site. 
I could never figure out the multitude of company officers and personnel for a site with so few unpaid for listings and stores. I think there must have been a lot of politicing with the upper ranks that speeded up the demise of the site.
Now I would not be surprised to ever see the site come back up at all.
It's like an old Woody Allen movie.
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blairwitch
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posted on January 8, 2003 11:54:10 AM new
The site appears to be up now. I wonder why they did not notify their members? Poor business ethics.....
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kenzy
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posted on January 9, 2003 12:46:55 PM new
Yes, the site is fully operational. Several of the Carnaby regulars are pressing the (new?) Carnaby management as to an explanation, and plans for the future.
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tooltimes
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posted on January 9, 2003 01:28:24 PM new
What happened to Jess the Mod? They must have silenced her, at least for now anyway. I do not like the posts about the longtime Carnaby member winning a trip almost two months ago and now they appear to be welching on the deal ala nobidding.com's point contest before it became auxpal/BV.
As Ricky would say to Lucy: You got some splaining to do.
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kenzy
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posted on January 11, 2003 10:57:43 AM new
tooltimes--
Jess has resigned as a Carnaby moerator, effective 1/13/2003. She posted this on the Carnaby boards.
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timetravelers
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posted on January 13, 2003 05:48:20 AM new
KENZY there you are it's me bitt. I saw what you guys are going through,it's awful.
will you get your prize? i hope..
did they ever post anything yet? after all this time to not even post a message is very strange.
If you need a place i am at ioffer & I love it there..actually making some money too.nice people everyone is welcome there..
good luck & i sure hope the new people honor the contest..take care
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tooltimes
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posted on January 13, 2003 06:05:16 AM new
I guess that tech that left for Pixie was a vital employee. Now the Carnaby image hosting is messed up. The management is now in the style of BV or worse, no announcements unless absolutely necessary. The last voice of Carnaby leaves today when the moderation is gone.
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PixieToys
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posted on January 13, 2003 11:12:33 AM new
tooltimes,
Just to keep the record straight, the new CTO for Pixies left Carnaby several months ago.
Gail
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kenzy
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posted on January 14, 2003 06:16:43 AM new
timetravelers--
Hi Hi Hi BITT! No, not a peep about what's happening at Carnaby, nor anything about prizes. Have now issued a formal request regarding the latter.
I have this mental image of a turnip in a big vise... and nothing's coming out of the squeezings, not even turnip juice!
Ah, well. In the meantime I'm listing away on eBay, where the abuse is predictable.
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tooltimes
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posted on January 14, 2003 10:32:32 AM new
Nobidding.com became AuxPal for a few days and then BidVille and there had been a big point contest where the points were worth prizes at nobodding.com. The drop-out doctor that owned and ran the beanie oriented nobidding.com site simply pretended that the contest had never happened and never mentioned it again. The ruckus died down after a while and he survived the situation and was even adored for a while at his new web creation, BidVille, and is still adored by four or five loyal followers there in fact.
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tooltimes
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posted on January 14, 2003 04:31:43 PM new
Poor Carnaby. It's been down all day and has many site technical problems when it is up. Put that on top of a management team that has not uttered a single printed word in a long time.
An online auction site can survive the silent management part ( Bidville has gone 60 days before without a printed announcement of any kind for example ) but the serious technical quirks and complete closure of the site for extended periods of time should quickly doom the site.
This all reminds me of auctioncow.com's demise. The site was down for a long time with no announcements and then it just sort of disappeared, not only from view but from memory. We never did get to see that much touted secret marketing plan of theirs.
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blairwitch
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posted on January 14, 2003 05:01:34 PM new
These sites are all doomed. ebay swallows them up whole, and spits them out. There for a while a new site was popping up daily. Most of them are now gone.
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timetravelers
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posted on January 14, 2003 11:34:08 PM new
NOT ALL Blairwitch i have faith in Ioffer..as people can mirror their ebay items for free..this will give them at least a marketing plan for a change to wean themselves off the giant..
You know the old saying don't put all the eggs in one basket LOL
KENZY..YIKES i was so happy i saw you & Jan won the Carnaby weekend somewhere..
didn't they have another contest or donation thingy when they first started that they just Stopped there was an announcement on that At the time it seemed odd you cannot have a contest & then just cancel it in the real world..
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tooltimes
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posted on January 15, 2003 05:34:48 AM new
I remember a small and dedicated group of followers of the site called www.bargainand haggle.com that were very optimistic and praiseworthy of their pet site. Didn't that site tank it in a while back?
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blairwitch
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posted on January 15, 2003 07:10:53 AM new
Golds auctions also had dedicated users, but shut down if I remember correctly.
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toollady
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posted on January 16, 2003 01:15:34 PM new
Is Carnaby gone for good?
I'm now getting DNS errors.
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tooltimes
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posted on January 16, 2003 02:17:58 PM new
Seems like it was up for only one day in the last week or so. Yesterday you could get into the site but the login screen didn't work and there was not much to see in there. One post in the Cafe. Very sad possible end to a near-perfect auction site. I guess that near perfection was owned to the site staff that have departed the site beforehand.
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reality1
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posted on January 16, 2003 06:14:16 PM new
No loss! The people that made Carnaby what it was have moved on to create a bigger and better community but without the limitations of the management holding them back.
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tooltimes
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posted on January 17, 2003 10:19:19 AM new
Day 11 ... still totally down.
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katiyana
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posted on January 17, 2003 12:35:08 PM new
I'm getting my auction ended notifications but can't access the site 8( Looks like I've lost yet another venue - I think that's the 4th in the past 4 months...
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aranglen
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posted on January 17, 2003 06:03:17 PM new
As of right now, I still can't get onto Carnaby. I have not been able to for two days.
What a shame. I was going to list some auctions, but now I have reconsidered.
Not sure I want to associate with a site that ignores its members.
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bbqueen
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posted on January 17, 2003 07:13:07 PM new
There's one thing i don't understand: I thought they were making all
these changes and hiring new people to get better, but all i've seen is
everything go down the tubes since last winter, which seems to coincide
with the resignation of their old management team and the hiring of the
new management:
http://www.auctionbytes.com/pages/abn/y02/m09/i12/s02
and
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021010/flth009_1.html
I wonder if these new people have a clue what they're doing? So far, i'm
not impressed
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tooltimes
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posted on January 17, 2003 10:43:44 PM new
All those great graphics they had too. But now we're lucky to get this!
and will probably get this instead ...
Oh well ....
[ edited by tooltimes on Jan 17, 2003 10:45 PM ]
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toollady
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posted on January 17, 2003 10:46:21 PM new
There's a rumor flying around that one of the founders has left Carnaby.
Since no one at Carnaby is talking, who knows?
[ edited by toollady on Jan 17, 2003 11:13 PM ]
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robnzak
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posted on January 18, 2003 07:15:41 AM new
It's such a pity that a venue with so much potential ends this way. I could understand their closing but the lack of comment from management to it's loyal users is unacceptable.
I built a very good customer base with my storefront and poof, all gone. Now I'm beginning the new year with a new store!
Rob
Robnzak Books
Buy A Book, I need beer money
[ edited by robnzak on Jan 18, 2003 07:17 AM ]
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