posted on January 21, 2002 06:20:45 PM new
Dear lanefamily:
Dear Sellers,
Welcome to 2002! We expect this year to be full of promise and opportunity, and hope that you will continue to build your business on Yahoo! Auctions. Today we are announcing a Free Listing Day for Thursday, January 24, 2002. Our objectives of this Free Listing Day are to continue to thank you for your ongoing support and commitment to our auctions platform – we value your business and your support, and appreciate your feedback on our message boards and from emails we receive regarding improvements and suggestions for the site. Secondly, we know that a Free Listing Day will attract more sellers, which in turn will bring more and more buyers to Yahoo! Auctions. We hope to draw many new sellers who are looking for an alternative, to give our site a try. Please let your friends know. We hope they will try us out too.
To support the free listing day, we intend to promote Yahoo! Auctions heavily across our network in the coming weeks to attract as many buyers as possible to your auctions. We know that a free listing day is only as good as the increase in bidders that can come with it, and we have the plans in place to do just that.
We continue our efforts to thwart deadbeat bidding and fraudulent sellers. Today we introduced an added step to the registration process, requiring all new registered sellers to provide the cvv2 number (three digit code) found on the back of the credit card. This forces the user to have the credit card in hand, which significantly reduces the number of ID’s anyone can have for selling, reducing the opportunity to take advantage of our honest users.
Know that we are working on further measures. We’ve set up a survey, and I’d greatly appreciate your time to fill it out to help us get a sense of what you see as the right kinds of steps we should take to make Yahoo! Auctions the best and safest auction platform on the Internet. You can find the survey at http://promo2.yahoo.com/sbin/Auctions_Jan2002/survey.cgi
Meanwhile, I wish you the best of success with your auctions and hope that you can take full advantage of the free listing day! In addition to our free listing day, we will also be hosting a contest as a part of the Free Listing Day Program. – you may be a lucky winner of a Cunard Line cruise trip. Further information can be found at Yahoo! Auctions starting tomorrow.
All the best,
Norm.
VP, General Manager, Yahoo! Auctions and Yahoo! Warehouse
(Please note: You received this message because you elected to receive it when you completed the Yahoo! Auctions Survey. If you do not want to receive future updates and information, you may unsubscribe by hitting reply and typing “Unsubscribe – Auctions Survey” in the Subject line.)
Waiting for for a few to get mad cause I posted this in the eBay fourm
Waiting for a few to defend PayPal even though this has nothing to do with it.
Waiting on a few to tell me to stop whining
[i]Finally waiting on a few to get mad about something else[i]
posted on January 21, 2002 06:45:36 PM new
ALRIGHT!! This is GREAT!! eBay just hiked their fees, and yahoo is giving us a free listing day lol. Yahoo has the potential to hurt eBay.
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posted on January 21, 2002 09:03:24 PM new
YAHOO had a few day a month or so ago. I posted 40 auction there and 40 on eBay. About 78% of my eBay auctions sold and were completed. 1 of my 40 Yahoo auctions sold, and the buyer then backed out because he didn't know how much it cost to ship out of the country!!!
Waste your time if you like, but when you can't sell 1 of 40 items, there is a problem with Yahoo - not the sellers.
I did eBay's FREE day, and sold about 80% of my auctions.
FREE is worth just that “0” if you don't sell anything. And for the time it takes it, it is worth minus 0, as it costs you the time you could be doing something profitable at another site.
posted on January 21, 2002 09:33:00 PM new
Similar story. The day that Yahoo dropped their fees, I posted 75 auctions, not one sold. NOT ONE. Now, I don't like paying more for ebay. I don't like having to pay 5.25% on each of 25 or 100 Dutch items, but if you want to be in the dance, you've got to pay the piper. Right now, Ebay is the only piper worth paying. I would like to have a choice... but I don't
posted on January 22, 2002 08:41:20 AM new
Don't forget that in order for your items to sell, there have to be buyers! Buyers are species which go where sellers are.
How many times have you gone to a party and left because no one was there? Now imagine being the host of that party -- wouldn't you recommend that your guests stay to make the party?
I think Yahoo should re-introduce FREE listings, but charge FVF to attract sellers to their party.
posted on January 23, 2002 05:51:59 PM new
I've got to say that I've been quite happy with the response that I've been getting with Yahoo. For the last three months I've been listing items that do not sell on eBay on Yahoo with the exact same starting bid and same BIN price. My sell rate on Yahoo with these items is about 60-65% -- more than acceptable for me. Now that eBay has decided to create a rate structure that punishes the small volume and low price seller, I've decided to switch the order I do things. Yahoo bidders are getting the first crack at my merchandise, and what doesn't sell will then be listed on eBay.
