Online Travel Booking and Bidding Agencies - Betterbidding growth in 11 days

I was curious, so thought I'd watch the growth on www.betterbidding.com. Meant to check at 10 days, but it slipped my mind.

In 11 days the site gained 540 new registered members, or just shy of 50 a day. There were 230 on-line when I left it to come over here; 204 guests, 25 members and only 1 anonymous. (The ratio of guests to members is fairly typical.)

Must be doing something right in it's casual, relaxed, agreeable approach?

Romelle

Must be doing something right in it's casual, relaxed, agreeable approach?


LOL. That, and the fact that members aren't regularly banned. ;)

Just sounds like the people who get banned by Shirl on a daily basis are registering on that website.... :D

Oh wait... looks like only about 30% of her daily bannings are registering there.... :)

LOL. I found FlyerTalk a while ago by searching for people banned from BiddingforTravel. :D Add my name to the list.

So it's win-win for all these other sites, including FlyerTalk...we all end up here and find other sites that offer similar services to BFT, like BetterBidding and BidLessTravel. And it's even win-win for the jackboot mods at BFT, as they have fewer and fewer customers to "deal with." :)

I have a pic of the uber Brownshirt, should you guys want to see the face behind the ban button...looks mean, even. ;)

What in heavens name could someone do on a travel forum to get banned?
Is the moderator to annal?

What in heavens name could someone do on a travel forum to get banned?
Is the moderator to annal?

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/online-travel-booking-bidding-agencies/301930-bidding-travel.html is a lengthy thread that discusses this site.

What in heavens name could someone do on a travel forum to get banned?

It has pretty much become the running joke in this forum that if you have a pulse, you have a high likelihood of getting banned from that site. :td:

What in heavens name could someone do on a travel forum to get banned?
Is the moderator to annal?

I believe that only an extremely small % of members at Biddingfortravel.com have been banned. I also believe, from reading the explanations of those who have been banned, that they generally declined to participate fully as requested in furthering the activities of BFT and didn't recognize that they had become a burden to the forum. Taking up time but not contributing. Freeloading might be the term I am looking for. It isn't as if you had your key to the Executive Dining Room taken away from you. Very sad.

I believe that only an extremely small % of members at Biddingfortravel.com have been banned. I also believe, from reading the explanations of those who have been banned, that they generally declined to participate fully as requested in furthering the activities of BFT and didn't recognize that they had become a burden to the forum. Taking up time but not contributing. Freeloading might be the term I am looking for. It isn't as if you had your key to the Executive Dining Room taken away from you. Very sad.


Say what? It is impossible for a freeloader to get banned, because such a person would never register and only glean information.

It takes so little to be banned. Myself for example had registered yrs ago on that forum and had changed e mails. I bid using her link and posted the result. She wanted me to spell the name of the hotel and mailed an e mail to a very old e mail acct. By the time I noticed a msg on BFT I had been banned. Her response? Thats what you get for not replying to msg soon enough.

Its hardly that were freeloaders-and if you continue to support her you'll soon find yourself on the receiving end. Why utilize a board knowing many worthwhile bid results don't get posted?

I believe that only an extremely small % of members at Biddingfortravel.com have been banned. I also believe, from reading the explanations of those who have been banned, that they generally declined to participate fully as requested in furthering the activities of BFT and didn't recognize that they had become a burden to the forum. Taking up time but not contributing. Freeloading might be the term I am looking for. It isn't as if you had your key to the Executive Dining Room taken away from you. Very sad.

I've used that site many times before... and I won't ever get banned. Why? Simply because I just don't bother to register and ask questions or assistance.

I've seen how she treats people's requests, it's either her way or the highway. I actually wouldn't mind contributing my findings there, but seeing how I may wind up actually getting the boot from the site, I chose to do nothing instead and just watch.

It's too bad really, because she'd get a lot more people to help post data points... but it's her site, and how she wants to run it is her choice.

I can vouch for my own activity and half a dozen people that I referred to on that site that we'd all like to put in some input, but we all seem to feel it's not worth getting admonished if we don't use her links.

Flyertalk on the other hand, seems to be a treasure trove of info... and the mods don't bust our chops (usually) :p

Do we need yet ANOTHER "Bash Sheryl" thread???? :rolleyes:

FlyerTalk is just way too repetitious.

Note: my post is NEITHER an attack NOR a defense of the founder of biddingfortravel. It's just a comment on how boring FT has become. :td:

Why not come up with something new to ask or comment on rather than rehashing stuff that's already been beaten to death in other threads? :confused:

Who is this "Sheryl"?

Do we need yet ANOTHER "Bash Sheryl" thread???? :rolleyes:

FlyerTalk is just way too repetitious.

Note: my post is NEITHER an attack NOR a defense of the founder of biddingfortravel. It's just a comment on how boring FT has become. :td:

Why not come up with something new to ask or comment on rather than rehashing stuff that's already been beaten to death in other threads? :confused:

LOL-Wharvey,you made my day.
I tend to agree with kathy,at least as far as the "rehashing." Let's try and stay on this topic of BB's growth. I realize that it's difficult to not link their growth to Sheryl's tactics, but let's try and move those comments to a more approriate thread.
That said,I can't help but remark that FT may seem boring to some, but thank God stating that doesn't get you banned.