freejack
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posted on January 2, 2001 07:07:14 PM new
CHECK IT OUT:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-4352889.html?tag=st.cn.1.lthd.ne
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mandm50s
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posted on January 2, 2001 07:23:26 PM new
Bye-Bye Yahoo it was fun while it lasted. With so few bidders and your jumbled listings I won't pay 10 cents to list. Seeya later gator
mandm50s
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molly001
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posted on January 2, 2001 07:31:20 PM new
I'm with you! Not going to pay $.20 to $2.25 to list on Yahoo when they can't seem to figure out what is REALLY needed to improve...
We have been discussing alternatives to ePay, eGreed, etc. over on the other board for diversity sake. Guess Yahoo comes off that list..... Maybe we'll even have some more people add to our discussions, eh?
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dman3
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posted on January 2, 2001 07:36:25 PM new
with yahoo bidding as it is and listings as they are yahoo isnt really worth the time or effort to make my listting there it certinly wouldnt be worth paying.
If they were to charge just if you sold it might stand a chance but charge to list and in 4 months only thing that will be left to yahoo is some merchant auctions and charity auctions.
for all Interested Auxpal as it turns out isnt a fruad they have stopped asking for paypal passwords and they are free and bidding and listing is growing faster then any new auction site I have seen ever.
as soon as yahoo sets a date for chargeing that I know I will have no choose but to remove the auction I have there my turn over is great on ebay I might take some yahoo inventory over to AUXpal and other free sites and give them a try can sell no worse then I have on yahoo in the past 9 months.
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
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mandm50s
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posted on January 2, 2001 07:36:28 PM new
molly001 what board would like to take a look and lurk a bit
mandm50s
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molly001
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posted on January 2, 2001 07:47:25 PM new
mandm50s - On the eBay Outlook, post titled "More restrictions, eBay alternatives?". I thought we should rename it... It's at the top now so stop by.
dman - Why don't you add your info about AuxPal to the thread mentioned above? I think the people would surely appreciate it.
Least I think they would....if not, you can come after me! What do I know? I'm just little Molly001!
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kasmoon
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posted on January 2, 2001 08:01:59 PM new
It's insane they would do this without a 30 day advance notice. If you loaded 10 day ads yesterday with 2 auto-relist you're really screwed.
Here's the official fee chart eff. Jan 10 http://help.yahoo.com/help/auctions/afee/afee-02.html
[ edited by kasmoon on Jan 2, 2001 08:03 PM ]
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heike55
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posted on January 2, 2001 08:02:53 PM new
?
heikejohn everywhere else!
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amalgamated2000
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posted on January 2, 2001 08:06:42 PM new
If you loaded 10 day ads yesterday with 2 auto-relist you're really screwed.
Actually, this is an ideal situation. Auto relists for auctions submitted prior to Jan 10 will not be charged.
On the 9th, I'm going to dump everything I can on 10 day auctions with 2 auto relists.
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heike55
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posted on January 2, 2001 08:11:09 PM new
automatic resubmits are free if listed before the 10th.
Still, what a ripp-off!!!
heikejohn everywhere else!
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figmente
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posted on January 2, 2001 08:18:11 PM new
With so few bidders and your jumbled listings yahoo will have very few listings.
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VeryModern
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posted on January 2, 2001 08:25:40 PM new
does anyone know if you can use your credits to pay the listing fees?
Thanks
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quickdraw29
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posted on January 2, 2001 08:33:06 PM new
Short this POS stock. A company that raises rates without increasing value is doomed. It's too bad that we now have no real alternative to ebay anymore. Yahoo is going down the route of Amazon, wipe out the little guy and giving the big guy the advantage. However, this is short term thinking, because bidders will want selection that the big guys can't provide alone, not in an auction setting that is.
Good ridance.
\"It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.
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whyizzit
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posted on January 2, 2001 08:39:11 PM new
Veddy clever this Yahooites! They scrambled the listings so you had to throw a dart at them.....frustrated the sellers until they BEGGED for fees.....However, they did NOT listen. Final Value Only is they way they should have gone. What a bunch of dummies!
Don't they realize we could take them off the market in a New York minute?? All we have to do is LEAVE!!
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postcardman
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posted on January 2, 2001 09:48:23 PM new
Well that's it for me on Yahoo, my sell through ratio on Yahoo has averaged under 3%, and the business had been building very slowly. Looking across the yahoo listings in many, many categories it looks like the over all sell-through ratio cannot be more than a couple of percent, virtually no one can afford to pay fees for this level of performance. Yahoo seems destined to destroy its auction business. It's major problem prior to the institution of the fee's was lack of traffic, using the same counters on my ebay and yahoo auctions, the yahoo traffic on the same/similar items was at best 6% of the hits on ebay. Aside from the very occasional really stupid TV commerical I don't see anything that yahoo did to build traffic, the random listing sequence which others have mentioned was a strong deterrent to sales, the badly designed/implememented search feature a strong deterrent to even the most determined buyers/bidders. Yahoo's strategy of attracting successful ebay sellers by offering to give the feedback value in feature listing dollars might have worked, although they never gave me my credits (over $1,400 worth) and never responded to any of my emailed questions on the matter, in general their customer service ranged from attrocious to non-existant. I basically listed on yahoo because it was free and I thought over the long term in might develop into a viable alternative to ebay. Since it is no longer free I have absolutely no incentive to continue listing on the site, so that is 600-800 fewer yahoo listings each month. Quite frankly if they continued to offer free listings and really worked hard to promote the service, improve service quality, etc they might have had a chance to create a viable business in a few years, given the new strategy I think they will soon go the way of Golds.
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katiyana
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posted on January 2, 2001 09:58:21 PM new
OK, so we have until the 9th to list for free on yahoo, and then the 10th is the magic day the fees go up?
I'm going to dump a ton of stuff on there with max auction length and 2 relists then before kissing Yahoo goodbye - been dumping my small value items there and finding the sales just frosting on my Ebay cake.
If this Auxpal isn't asking for paypal passwords anymore, might go there...
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