posted on January 3, 2001 07:31:20 PM new
WE NEED TO GIVE YAHOO MANAGEMENT A CHANCE,
THEY KNOW WHAT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST FOR US, WE NEED TO BE MORE UNDERSTANDING !!!
AFTER ALL IT IS NOT EASY RUNNING AN AUCTION SITE !!! WE ALL HAVE TO TIGHTEN OUR BELTS ALITTLE, AND MAYBE OUR PURSES TOO !!!
REMEMBER, DON'T THROW OUT THE BABY, WITH THE BATH WATER !!!
YAHOO KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING, AND WE SHOULD NOT SECOND GUESS MANAGEMENT OF YAHOO,
REMEMBER, THEY ARE IN CONTROL, THEY CALL THE SHOTS, AND HAVE THE EXPERIENCE OF RUNNING A SITE SUCH AS YAHOO !!!
posted on January 3, 2001 07:41:56 PM new
ROFLOL - the day I believe that a bunch of wellll yahoos (and that goes for the management of ebaY and Amazon too) know this business better than the people actually participating in it - will be the day I hang up my spurs and leave them to it. They live in theory and WE have to live with the reality!!! Not to say they don't have some clever ideas about technology development, but they have no real understanding of how the sites WORK, nor do they understand the people who use the sites. We are the ones who adapt the tools and make them work for us - on not when the ideas or tools are lousy. LISTING fees are a LOUSY long term success idea. At least FVFs tie Yahoos success to the success of their sellers. And any site that uses a default that scrambles the listing order and stubbornly refuses to listen to it's users about what a horrible methodology it is, proves how clueless they are. Particularly when they have the death knell example of Amazon in front of their noses. Yeah - they know what's best - NOT!!!! -Rosalinda
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posted on January 3, 2001 07:47:38 PM new
I hate to be disagreeable but I think your comment is full of Yahooie. Yahoo was just beginning to give some competition to Ebay. They have not got momentum because they do not have enough bidders. This is just the plain old truth. sellers were willing to keep posting to try and draw traffic as long as the auction site remained free. But now I think they sill sink very quickly. Great minds, clearly no sense.
posted on January 3, 2001 07:47:49 PM new
Are you for real? What Yahoo cares about is what I and everyone else here cares about.. THE BOTTOM LINE. At least they could have made it affordable.. but oh no..
posted on January 3, 2001 10:38:23 PM new
First of all, Yahoo's management has absolutely no interest in doing what is best for us.
Theoretically, they SHOULD be acting in the best interest of their stock holders.
I do not belive this is the case. I think that Yahoo management is acting in their own INDIVIDUAL best interest.
If so, this is clearly a violation of their fiduciary responsibilities.
I just don't belive that the management of Yahoo is a bunch of complete idiots. Past performance has proved otherwise.
But the scary thing is that that means that they understand what they are doing. For whatever reason, they are destroying the auction site intentionally. Nothing else makes sense.
posted on January 3, 2001 11:24:31 PM new
I think the new changes may just work as long as the ease of listing and yahoo's privacy policies remains. I save time listing in yahoo, time is money, am willing to pay the 20 cents and up to have the freedom and privacy, I could be paying a sitter, buying special cothes I dont normally wear, keeping an auto fueled,driving time etc to work outside the home. My choice is to hang around yahoo, of course I am trying to relist everything before the cutoff but I think it might just work.
Those of you who offer international shipping may know the turmoil of who is and who isn't international, many times we have to play postoffice tag to insure buyer sends appropriate shipping, many times we cant get an address out of them until we give a total. Yes you can check their about me page, this is not always accurate.
Today I received a notice of an auction winner from Yahoo, the email sender was
UK-auctions@yahoo, this told me right off where the buyer was from, have never had an email from yahoo like this for international members. I love it! So I was able to get the right postage and handling to this person in advance, this was a $2 item, so if I had to pay 20 cents for it to be listed, it would have been worth it just to have that info. I would much rather be with my family then playing email tag.
Hopefully PayDirect will accomadate International buyers too. I know many of you dont like international shipping, I frankly LOVE it, international buyers pay faster then most, even mail-in payments arrive faster then US. If I had my way we would have the option "International buyers Only" much like the " will not ship Internationally" memo for those who wont.
posted on January 4, 2001 12:21:56 AM new
I have to disagree with you Startrek. This is not the sci-fi fantasy world. I wish this was the Startrek universe where moral integrity is based upon the Federation's Prime Directive and Earth is known as paradise. Perhaps this is a cunning plot to exploit our human weakness as gullable earthlings by some greedy Ferengi's in Yahoo's upper management. Can anyone point out the Rules of Acquisition for this one? Or maybe the Romulans are behind this? No wait, maybe the Borg assimulated Yahoo Inc. "We are YaBorg, resistance is futile".
Beam me up Scotty!
-Gemini1818
[ edited by gemini1818 on Jan 4, 2001 01:06 AM ]
