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| Thread ID: 127052 | 2012-10-01 23:44:00 | Wheedle: thoughts? | pcuser42 (130) | PC World Chat |
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| 1304512 | 2012-10-02 02:05:00 | Ebay is better. Even their NZ ebay store is better :D (looks like it hasn't been touched since launch!!) Trademe is fine for local listings but too many sites don't create competition, they create fragmentation. If you want to launch a site like this don't try and compete with trademe, appeal to a different market eg specialty products or cheap sales of random things like hussle live. (kinda like craigslist in the states) Ebay has an NZ store????? |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1304513 | 2012-10-02 02:59:00 | Aaaaaand it's gone again. nbr.co.nz | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1304514 | 2012-10-02 04:55:00 | :lol: | GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1304515 | 2012-10-02 04:56:00 | Guaranteed to be cheaper on Wheedle ;) www.nbr.co.nz HAHAHAHAHAHAHA So, it looks like the completely idiotic clowns who programmed Mintshot still haven't learned anything, and then they got hired again to make another website! Horrible name, too. Wheedle. Makes me think of whiny 3-year olds or something. Perhaps that's a reference to the web developers who made it? Ebay has an NZ store????? Sure, but anything you try to do on it just redirects you straight to eBay.com |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1304516 | 2012-10-02 05:36:00 | Auckland software developer Ben Gracewood, who just hours before told NBR Wheedle as an 'abomination' that needed to be scrapped Indian outsourcing 'not the problem' Wheedle general manager Carl Rees confirmed the Christchurch-based company had outsourced website development work to India (there was little choice after a reader spied a Wheedle ad on an Indian job site). Wheedle is backed by Rich Lister Neil Graham, who told NBR over the weekend the site had a $10 million+ budget Little choice?? What??!!! BS. $10 million, maybe spending some of it on real programmers with a few clues and not stealing some one elses layout might have helped. Fail already, I wouldn't bother after this.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1304517 | 2012-10-02 06:57:00 | Couldn't possibly comment - haven't managed to get on yet! :rolleyes: | B.M. (505) | ||
| 1304518 | 2012-10-02 07:26:00 | RIP Wheedle. How could they spend $10+ million and still make this many fundamental errors? Seriously, some of these issues fall into web development 101. They might have thought they saved a few $$ outsourcing the work; but I'm sure this experience will have cost them much more, if not cost them their entire business. There's nothing wrong with using _good_ Indian outsource firms (and there are plenty of good companies in India that do know what they're doing) in principle, but surely anyone who had the slightest clue would know that the code their current provider has written is not up to scratch. I'd say this is the end of Wheedle. The mistakes they've made are simply unforgivable, and I'm sure a lot of consumers would not be comfortable handing over their credit card details to a company that can't even get the basic functionality of their site right. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 1304519 | 2012-10-02 07:26:00 | All publicity is good publicity I guess ;) Attention Seeking? Hey, it works for crApple... :D The NBR article quotes general manager Rees as blaming a lack of testing for the problems - that may be so, but if the requirements aren't written well, then it would be easy to pass testing. I suspect this is a case of this Neil Graham guy going to an Indian software developer and saying "I want an auction site like Trademe. Build it." I'd lay odds that the requirements document (if there is one) is probably only a couple of pages long... It smacks of an IT project being run by people who don't understand how an IT project should be run. It is definitely a blatant rip-off of Trademe layout and wording and I would not be surprised that, if it resurfaces in the same form (but presumably fixed), Fairfax doesn't take legal action over the copy... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1304520 | 2012-10-02 07:52:00 | According to NZ Herald they are now closed until further notice to sort themselves out. I wouldn't have any confidence in dealing with them ever after this debacle. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1304521 | 2012-10-02 08:50:00 | It didn't even last as long as that other 'TradeMe' clone that got shutdown when users ended up at a porn website if they used .com instead of .co.nz on the address. | Jen (38) | ||
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