Is Webuy.co.nz Dead?
Today I recieved this in my inbox:
SITE PROBLEMS:
Our site has been incurring ongoing unexplained problems. We are at this time, unable to stop this continued onslaught. We do not have the expertise to counter what has been happening.
Over the past week the site has been down several times. Bugs have been appeared to stop functions.
Saturday night they attacked admin to stop anyone logging in. It would take our passwords and allow admin to appear but once clicked on a function took us out to re login.
Our members could login but could not enter mywebuy to relist or execute any of their functions. If they clicked mywebuy a 2nd time they are taken back to login.
Then to top this off the site was out for the third time in 3 weeks. We were down for 18 hours.
SOLUTION:
We are working on the problems and seem to have things under control, and sincerely hope to overcome next lot as they appear. However our funder has put us on notice that “enough is enough”. He has given Kiwis a previously unheard of and generous opportunity “a chance to own something worthwhile and to create wealth with no outlay”. The results have been disappointing for three and a half years. The funder when setting the site up for members to own said 2 years was the limit “use it or lose it”. He funded for a considerably longer period.
Hopefully we will get on top of things but if we don’t do so in the next few days it will be goodbye from the Webuy team.
Wish us well as you own the site and if any site deserves support it really is Webuy.
All that this says to me is that the site is down and out. They don’t have what it takes to fix the issues and this email shows that there’s little chance that these issues will be fixed. If anyone trusted Webuy.co.nz I would seriously think again. Whats your thoughts?
February 8th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
The email seems very confusing.
In an email they should have been more though full and pronounced either the site will be closing or the bugs are being fixed and issues resolved.
I think if they are sending emails out like this, they must be running their site into the ground too.
February 11th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Webu…er what now? Do you know anyone who even used the site?
I agree … Wrrite the “we’re dead” letter or don’t – but don’t send letters like this!
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Agreed – a little honesty from the Directors to all those they gave shares to on what was really happening, that they were going to pull the plug, annual accounts etc would have gone a long way
It’s not surprising given the commentaries elsewhere of the history of the site & major shareholders that it is dead in the water
March 6th, 2010 at 9:12 am
WEBUY WAS A GREAT SITE FOR OEDINARY KIWIS TO OWN AND IT IS A PITY THEY DID NOT SEE THE OPPURTUNITIES IT OFFERED i MYSELF USED IT EVEN THOUGH I DID NOT NEED TO BUY MUCH IT WAS GREAT RELAXING SITE TO LOOK AROUND AT THE END OF THE DAY AND TO THINK YOU OWNED A SMALL PORTION WAS A UPLIFT OF IT`S OWN I THANK BROOKE AND HIS TEAM FOR GIVING ME THAT CHANCE AND I AM SORRY TO SEE IT GO DOWN REGARDS TO ALL THE THE WEBUIY TEAM YOU DID A GREAT JOB SHAME ON THE KNOCKERS !!!!
March 11th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
I don’t care about my shares in WEBUY, but i really do feel for the poor members they were sucked in by all Brookes bleetings by how much their shares were worth, and fooling people into actually buying shares that were worthless, or definitely are worthless now, and if the company was being run at a loss, then the shareholders should have access to the accounts, as they might be entitled to a tax write-off against their now worthless shares. For anyone who didn’t buy shares, then the whole exercise has just been a waste of their time, but for those who were fooled into parting with cash, or those poor buggers who worked for shares (at WEBUY) then their should be some recourse. SELLA.co.nz seems to be the only serious opposition at the moment to the entrenched trademe.
March 11th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
@Captaincol Agreed – completely.