posted on January 9, 2001 01:11:11 PM
Yahoo announced a new listing fee of $.20 to a quarter, no final value fees. Do you think this means an improvement for Yahoo auctions? I will probably list less at Yahoo because of the new fee.
posted on January 9, 2001 01:50:09 PM
I tried and could not get any sales there for free. Why should I pay for no sales? If you are in the right categories I understand you can do well but my stuff was just dead.
Their theory is it is going to improve the quality of items offered. It seems they feel
quality = price.
Go get an earfull at the Yahoo forum. Some of the long time users are just quiting. One person pointed out they could lose half their users and still pull in about 500 million a year. What if they lose 80%+ and the remainder list less? Could happen IMHO.
[ edited by gravid on Jan 9, 2001 01:53 PM ]
posted on January 9, 2001 02:10:31 PM
no, not quality=price. Their thought is that quality=quick sale. They don't want items that sit around for a long time before they sell. Too bad for them that most things on yahoo sit around for a long time before they sell.
posted on January 9, 2001 02:19:55 PM
Zazzie, I hope this isn't a dead issue already. I think we'll be feeling the repercussions for a long time. I expect a lot of Yahoo sellers will come back to eBay, thus driving eBay sales and prices back down. Does Yahoo have critical mass to make it as a for-pay site?
posted on January 9, 2001 04:33:03 PM
I dont think they will have even half the listing they have had by the end of febuary they may be under 1 or 2 million items.
I am still listing on yahoo One bright spot is they are fixing there auction list so your ending auctions make the top of the list again and my yahoo auctions as of today are getting them last min biding again today I have a auction with 30 mins to go that just got a bid this hasnt happen in 9 months since they fixed listings to show according to feed back and ending auctions never made the top of the heap.
Another bright side is with listings dropping so fast my auction veiws are way up I am talk nearly 200 veiws on some auctions in three days.
posted on January 10, 2001 12:13:57 AM
Yahoo has critical mass, and if ebay wasn't around, the fees would look reasonable (on yahoo). But, at this juncture, I can still come out ahead on ebay paying higher fees, and turn around items faster. It'll take a month to see a real difference as people will have free relistings going on, and it'll be pretty interesting to see what happens to that site as many categories theoretically will go completely empty of listings.
Don't worry that ebay will become more cluttered up. The reason a lot of the stuff was on Yahoo is because the margins were so low, or demand so weak, it made no sense to sell it on ebay with the fees. Anyway, many sellers are looking for other alternative sites, not ebay, to sell on that are free. Lycos and Bidbay get the most talk.
