Mall.com gone?

[grnidone]

I haven't been able to get to the Mall.com site in a few days now. Also all emails to anyone there are bounced.

Is Mall.com gone?

[lawman]

I never heard of mall.com. Could not log onto the site. I then checked Google's cache and it returned an error.

Whoever it is, it appears to be MIA.

lawman

[born2drv]

Wow, that's huge news, take a look at their alexa profile:

[info.alexa.com...]

It appears they went belly up and the reviewers (people who paid to be included) are not too happy about it.

Glad I didn't shell out any cash, they were calling me quite frequently asking me to signup.

[lawman]

Tried the link born2drv. Nada.

lawman

[Nieder3d]

Same here. Nothing. I used to work with them for inclusion into their search listings. They were there about a month or so ago but...

I wonder what could have happened. I thought that they had a good thing going.

[born2drv]

Sorry, just go to alexa's main page:
[alexa.com...]

... and enter mall.com in the search box.

[deltakits]

You can go to www.archive.org and type mall.com in the wayback machine, see what it looked like before it choked! :)

[grnidone]

It didn't belly up too long ago...the last contact I had with them was 9/6.

We continued to get traffic from them until the week ending 9/21.

[Rugles]

Just a few months ago they were pitching me and wanted thousands of dollars for a listing.
They bragged about millions of hits and the riches they could pass on to me.

Wisely I have avoided all "shopping mall" sites for over two years. That concept will never fly.

[Protheus]

Like many other advertisers, I was stunned to check my stats one day and see that mall.com’s incoming traffic went down to zero, as I checked their site I saw that it wasn’t functioning. I though nothing of it at that time, I though “ maybe my connection is down or slow and they aren’t showing up” or “ it’s a temporary trouble with one of their servers”. As the day continued and I checked their site periodically I started to fear the worse. I called their office in Texas and to my surprise no one answered not even the operator. I called my contact and his cell phone was dead, I called the tech department and they told me that they we no longer working there? My suspicions were turning into frustrations, what was going on I asked myself? I kept on calling every number I found for them and eventually I found someone, a cleaning lady! She told me “I am cleaning the office”, I asked her in a stunned voice where is the staff the multitudes that used to call me at every turn, “no one is here” she answered “I am cleaning out this office and I was tired of the phone ringing and answered to leave it off the hook!” Stunned I hung up , I got up and went over the my CFO and CEO and told them the grim news. We were some of the lucky ones cause we paid them with a credit card an American Express on top of that and they assured us that they will get the money back for us, but as I spread the news a little I was surprised to find out that even the people at Infospace knew nothing. I spoke to Steve Stratz Sr. Manager of public relations at Infospace and all he could tell me was that even he didn’t have anything concrete and he wasn’t even going to speculate. With that statement I knew for sure that mall.com was dead and with it lot’s of people’s money. So mall.com becomes another casualty of the internet, to some it will be just another bump in the road but to others like a few small advertisers I contacted it’s a big deal to loose your major traffic funnel.

[MarkHutch]

The domain name is paid up until 2009 via Netsol and I get a DNS return to Broadwing for them. I guess they just turned off the server.

[lgn]

I did a search on Mall.com desmise, and I found nothing at all. Not only did they go under, they went under, and the media did not even notice.

You think a keyword like mall.com be worth a few bucks. Im surprized the receiver does not have a domain for sale sign on the url, instead of white noise.

[born2drv]

There was an article published here about mall.com's demise incase anyone is interested:

[internetnews.com...]

[lgn]

Thanks for posting the article.

The lesson from this:

Never prepay for more than a month of advertising at a time.

Remember if a company wants a years advertising up front, then its because of there cash flow, not that they don't trust you.

Don't believe, traffic figures. I have sites advertising million of hits, and I find them 3 pages down in the top100widgets voting sites, where we are on the front page. Pretty easy to tell that these traffic figures are a lie.