bidsbids
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posted on October 26, 2001 11:16:05 PM new
I just got an email from Yahoo and the promised Half.com-clone has started with a 10% or less FVF.
Since most of the free ( and I use that term loosely ) sites are just wharehouses anyway with very low sell rates this should spell a least some trouble for those sites.
Yahoo promises to promote the new venue actively on it's site. This should get interesting. 
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stachyruk
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posted on October 27, 2001 04:41:45 AM new
If you would of checked out the Yahoo warehouse guidelines, you would of read that all items must be accompanied by a UPC or bar code before they are listed. This will not effect to many other auction sites as most auction sites including E*** have sportscards as there dominate item listed.
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deichen
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posted on October 27, 2001 06:34:49 AM new
Is this true? You have to have a UPC code on the item? So only new items will work? I thought this was supposed to be like Half.com. So I could not list old books?
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bidsbids
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posted on October 27, 2001 07:49:03 AM new
Half.com has over 100 milion listings. The Wharehouse is only starting out with the UPC and ISBN items. Books are perfect as the Wharehouse, old or rare books are auction items even at Half.com.
You must have a credit card and bank routing number to start listing ( no mailing of checks ). 10% is a better deal than 15% and it puts pressure on eBay for the first time.
With the popularity of the Yahoo portal and myriad of services this has a chance to put a crimp in eBay's style, I hope.
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toollady
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posted on October 27, 2001 08:18:41 AM new
Here is the fee structure:
Item price +shipping: $0.01 - $50.00 ---Yahoo! commission: 10%
Item price +shipping: $50.01 - $125.00 ---Yahoo! commission: 8%
Item price +shipping: $125.01 - $200.00 ---Yahoo! commission: 7%
Item price +shipping: $200.01 - $500.00 ---Yahoo! commission: 6.5%
Item price +shipping: Over $500.00 ---Yahoo! commission: 5%
I am guessing with the warehouse, you MUST include a shipping amount when listing. Or, you must use Yahoo's PayDirect so Yahoo can get their cut of the TOTAL.(again, just a guess)
Why would anyone want to pay those kinds of commissions, especially on the shipping amount?
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bidsbids
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posted on October 27, 2001 11:31:26 AM new
I listed a book last night to try it out and the only shipping part of it that I saw was a box for Media Mail or Priority Mail as options.
That fee is a lot cheaper than Half.com . There is no picture to scan or book description to add or listing fee or money collection or verification fes or premium memberships to buy. The decription box is to add coments about the book's condition.
The setup seems nearly the same as Half. Now, how many of the 100 milion items will be moved To the Y Wharehouse or double listed at both venues? eBay is taking a small gamble by folding Half.com into eBay and some people may miss the Half.com setup and come the the Y Wharehouse to buy their fixed price items stuff.
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kasmoon
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posted on October 27, 2001 12:29:12 PM new
Toollady
Yahoo sets the shipping rates for books, music and movies and only take commission from the actual selling price.
Shipping for Computers and Electronics is set by the seller and Y takes commission from sold plus shipping total.
They opened with just those 5 categories but according to their chat will add more as soon as possible. They pay sellers by direct deposit to their checking acct twice a month.
Their plan to draw traffic:
Yahoo Shopping states they have 19 million unique visitors a month. They are about to integrate search so when a buyer enters a keyword on shopping it will return results from shopping, auctions, warehouse and classifieds at the same time.
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toollady
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posted on October 27, 2001 12:50:15 PM new
Hi Kasmoon,
That was a copy and paste of what I was sent via email.
It would have been nice for the other details to have been put in the email as well.
Thanks for giving out that information.
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auroranorth
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posted on October 27, 2001 01:44:49 PM new
so go there and post a few hundred or better yet thousand auctions. then wait for the jerks that run that site to come pimping along with either fee increases or just cancellations of everything you entered based on lies and nonsense, I have not forgotten them they deserve one thing to be out of business or better yet maybe they should be a French site selling off goverment opinions only I am sure that there are many sellers who got the notices that their auction was objected to by 3 members when It was actually the auctions way of cancelling sales when they wanted to raise prices and there were not any mysterious objectors, they will never be a problem for free sites like epier or bidexpo or others because no one trusts them, that had done business with them in the past.
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YourDesigns
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posted on October 27, 2001 03:01:15 PM new
I think there is a difference. Auction sites and half.com type sites appeal to different parts of the brain.
Half.com is like a flea market. Fixed prices, and some haggling.
Whereas auction sites are just that, auction sites. Low starting prices that people bid up the prices.
All this mixing and matching is going nowhere in my opinion.
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