posted on April 4, 2001 06:28:00 AM new
After being in business for 30 years, and living thru many experience's in this country, i can safely say what is going to happen, and is happening...
number 1, because of the economy right now the way it is,
number 2, a new president,
number 3, problems with bush's father in affairs over in other countries being weak,
number 4, now new president (son) with almost same problems in other countries right now with same type relations japan, china, etc.
number 5, the internet ,com companies taking a hit in the pocket book would be an understatement right now.
number 6, yahoo running the company into the ground with poor choice's, bad management.
number 7, old leadership stepping down, and new blood coming in to leadership with same old, same old, routine,
I CAN SAFELY SAY WATCH YAHOO, AND OTHER COMPANIES LIKE YAHOO, IT'S CALLED THE BIG BANG THEORY, A GREAT STARTUP, THEN A COOL DOWN PROCESS, WATCH FOR YAHOO EITHER DISAPPEARING OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH AS WE KNOW IT, OR BEING BOUGHT OUT FROM DISNEY, AOL, EPAY, OR SOME OTHER PARENT COMPANY. THIS YEAR WILL BE THE TRUE TEST GROUND ZERO, I SEE THE HAND WRITING ON THE WALL...
posted on April 4, 2001 03:55:49 PM new
I dont believe for 1 min yahoo is going to disapear or go away.
I also dont beleave it is going to be bought or sold to ebay or any other dot com at this time they are all in the same boat and ebay of all of them already has to many eggs in it basket at this time for the market condition at this time.
How ever I do predict this economy is heading back up word from what I am reading only this time it is a slower rise back up.
I think by mid or end of summer advertizeing will be back on the rise see when business is hot and booming companies get lazy (complacent) not to mention greedy.
posted on April 4, 2001 05:05:01 PM new
Yahoo has more then Auctions, if yahoo were to illiminate Auctions I would still use the rest of the site, Yahoo has been my secondary home page for years. Maps, Driving Directions, Lottery Numbers, recipes etc.
posted on April 4, 2001 11:44:41 PM new
It's safe to say Yahoo does not have an oversupply of inventory which plagues many companies; they don't have a lot of infrastructure that runs down their money supply. They do have lots of cash to survive downturns; they are in process of new leadership which has made steps towards new revenue streams, and Yahoo rates very high in name recognition being the number one portal. Their various sites are so good I spend more time with Yahoo than anywhere else getting the information I need or just playing around. The management team may have been arrogant due to its dominance, but they have never rested on their laurels, always innovating. Now that they are charging they will become even more competitive. Ebay may be left in the dust when the big corps decide that Yahoo's site is more reliable and less prone to crashes, and do their auctions with them. Never bet against a company that is number one in their field and are still innovative.
posted on April 5, 2001 06:56:38 AM new
Title Search Results Found 389 auctions for STAR TREK
THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING !!!
Here above is the updated figure for star trek collectibles which was almost 9,000 a few months ago... the funny money is running out, and the post are dropping at almost 95% of the before fee's time. star trek and star wars is the two strongest sellers on auction sites for sci fi collectibles, ebay has a total between them almost 30,000, the auction sites from epier to bidbay, and bidville etc have taken over 70 percent of the yahoo list...
in other area's post have went down to 90% or better, you have to remember when one area of yahoo is effected, it effects other area's as well, "no man is an island"...
posted on April 5, 2001 11:04:07 AM new
mint4you
posted on April 5, 2001 09:51:02 AM
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startrek and dman3
I want to apologize ...
NO NEED TO MINT4YOU...
NOBODY TAKES THESE POST SERIOUSLY,?!
I am proud to be 99.99 percent ass, isn't that what america's about? we didn't see what you erased but I am sure you needed to say it !! Better then kicking the dog!
I frankly am more comfy with my head up my ass as opposed to being exposed to the world we call real. At least I know my ass and where it has been.
posted on April 5, 2001 08:29:52 PM new
I will be honest with you mint, the only reason i am on the internet the past two years was to make money, no other reason.
my business was slowing down after many years of dealing with the public. so several business friends said you need to go on the internet. so after awhile i did,
now after spending over 80 hours a week on the computer for two years, i want to pull my hair out of my head.
the main reason, i see good company's and businesses going down hill with the most stupid moves they make, not mentioning any company.
from time to time people come on and state their opinion on things, as they see it, their is nothing wrong with that, but i have one rule, i never get personal on other people's sites, this is unprofessional, and not right. i am not perfect, but i have been in business 30 years, and know which way the wind blows if you know what i mean,
yahoo, was a wonderful company, with great protential, but it will take an act of god for them to pull them selves up, and gain the respect of the auction community again, the fee's was not the problem, it was the attitude, the not caring, the can message's, the fast change over to fee's with little notice as possible, when it was people like me and you, and others who made their site what it was... i know, i had 20% star trek on their site out of 9000 auctions, also i had 10 percent of nascar on thier site out of 14,000 listings, i was one of the big sellers on their site, and they never contacted me, not once, but they claim that they contacted the big sellers on their sites, and they wanted a fee auction place. so the rift raft would be gone.
this makes me very upset, when i lose faith in a company, but in this day and age, i can believe anything, i only wish the best for yahoo, what i do from here is my choice, i have decided for now not to put all my eggs in one basket, i will miss some really super nive people i met on yahoo, the people is what made the company, at least the auction part of it.
posted on April 6, 2001 04:21:38 AM new
You know, I've been thinking about it...since it's been revealed that Koogle shops on eBay and not his own site, I wonder...
Does Meg shop at Yahoo? Does Pierre sell Pez dispensers at Yahoo? Maybe they're the two big sellers that Yahoo contacted that wanted fees...
posted on April 6, 2001 09:01:16 AM new
Yahoo is changing strategy. They've eliminated a lot of the space using, slow selling listings, and can now make room for big corps. Ebay would like that business but with their frequent crashing, big corps will stay away. Ebay has already said that their growth lies not in collectibles, so Yahoo must be thinking who cares if we've lost 90% of the collectible listings, there are better areas to concentrate on for growth.
"THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL." Yes, and it says small sellers no longer welcome.
posted on April 6, 2001 10:12:58 AM new
Hi, Startrek!
I just wanted to jump in on this thread to say that I 100% agree with what you've said. I've felt for some time now that yahoo was setting itself up for either an outright buy out or a merger. And listening to what Yang said, or, didn't say, on the "Silicon Summit" on MSNBC did nothing to alter this opinion, in fact, if anything, it reinforced it. The times they are a changin'... and rapidly, too. Even if advertising does eventually increase, I just don't think that you'll ever be able to click your heels three times and return home again on yahoo. ~ Psyclonic
posted on April 6, 2001 07:48:59 PM new
THANK YOU FOR YOUR POST,
Let's face it people, we want an auction site that is free, or at least reasonable, with a good customer base, and safety procedures built into the system, and a adm, that gets back to you when you ask a question within this lifetime !!!
i have tried most of the sites, and will not promote any here, this is not the place, but i will say this on yahoo, "the customer is always right"...
when any business places themselves ahead of the people they deal with, then it is a sad day, and respect is lost, in my head i keep going round and round trying to figure this out, what happened, why this happened, and who thought up this brainy idea to improve yahoo, and i keep getting a blank, this makes no sense to me, or the people i deal with, every e-mail i get, is not in favor of their business practices. why ???
posted on April 6, 2001 11:07:53 PM new
Actually, regarding the vivacity or demise or Yahoo, after having been (no lady like way to put it) done in by them, and their untrustworthiness – whether Yahoo lives or dies, as Rhett Butler so elegantly said “frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
posted on April 7, 2001 11:13:24 AM new
I'm getting a little fed up with these inflammatory named threads. It's like reading The Drudge Report. Fee or no fees, busines is great on Yahoo Auctions and the secret is customer service and post-sale management. Can we just move on now?
posted on April 7, 2001 12:06:22 PM new
Albert Einstein and Bill Gates in the same sentence? I'd never thought I'd see the day...
All Bill Gates ever did was write a Basic interpreter for the Apple computer. The rest of his talents were directed into funnelling $ from us to him by making computing complicated. The Windows 95 OS existed for the Amiga 1000 in 1985. It took Gates & Company 10 years to copy it for the PC.
As for Einstein, without him we would not have all those great movies like BACK TO THE FUTURE where our heroes come and go where they want and WHEN they want. Oh and we wouldn't have Hydrogen bombs either.
posted on April 7, 2001 01:29:33 PM new
Rolllanotherone:
I frankly am more comfy with my head up my ass as opposed to being exposed to the world we call real. At least I know my ass and where it has been.
posted on April 7, 2001 01:52:47 PM new
Mint,
I was just trying to be nice when I said ignore the negative topics! What I really wanted to say was move on and out!
posted on April 7, 2001 01:56:05 PM new
Please stop attacking me. I was expressing my opinion without being personal to anyone. Yahoo was free, now it's not. The fees are reasonable and there are new bidders almost every day---IMO. Deal with it. Just stop the flaming.
posted on April 7, 2001 02:31:40 PM new
Mint,
I am seriously ROTFLMAO! I bet Roller can't top that one! Besides, she did not tell me anything I did not already know!
