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These guys are about ten years too late

Today I received an cell phone msg advertisement for a site YouWorld.

It’s an online auction site–like eBay. And its logo uses the colors red, blue, yellow, and green–like eBay. They even use the colors in the same order, too:

And it’s no wonder they’re advertising however they can. Most people would debate YouWorld’s usefulness when the number of auctions (20) is less than the number of categories (24). Also questionable is the value of trying to enter a market that’s been covered for a decade and not trying to make a significantly positive change.

The number of registered YouWorld users rose from 99 this morning to 101 right now. Maybe there’s hope for them yet.

June 8th, 2007 4 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Bad Ads

  1. Allen posted the following on 11 June 2007 at 2:13 pm.

    Hm… wouldn’t publishing links and information about a website given to you by a spammer be the same thing as condoning spam?

    You’re spreading information about the website by word of mouth which is what they’re hoping for.

        Reply to Allen
  2. Donnie Briggs posted the following on 12 June 2007 at 7:21 am.

    Yes…no…I mean…well it’s too late now, dang it!

    They now have more auctions than categories. I’m impressed.

        Reply to Donnie Briggs
  3. patrick downs posted the following on 16 June 2007 at 7:22 pm.

    i visit http://www.youworld.co.uk i found head categories and Categories and sub categories, had you all visit by clicking categories, i am tired to see hundrds of sub categories, pls comment more about prospects

        Reply to patrick downs
  4. darren posted the following on 16 June 2007 at 7:44 pm.

    Well, gueys youworld.co.uk does not look bad but I am sure it will take long time for those guys to get traffic on this website because there are a lot other site like this.
    Using color combinatin like ebay it looks like this is sister company :)
    I registered yesterday and auctions and bidding script looks like very similar to ebay. One thing they are offering is free listing and no final fee which is really good if your item get sold. what do you thing.

        Reply to darren

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