posted on January 4, 2001 07:06:08 AM
The thought of trying to list items with the two-additional relists at Yahoo!Wasteland crossed my mind, but then I clicked on the "closed/sold" tab.
Last sale was on 12/26 for $10, prior sales were on 12/4 for $8.00 and 11/1 for $2.00.
Yahoo!Wasteland would tell you that's because I post "junk". Strange, though, I took advantage of three free listings days and moved some 150 items that didn't get a bid for one or two months at Yahoo!Wasteland to eBay. The result? Sold one-half the items, many with multiple bids.
You have to laugh when you think that the dullards at Yahoo!Wasteland would have sellers throwing money into listing fees at an auction website they are unable to promote to their 185 million registered users, the overwhelming majority of which have never clicked through the auctions link on their portal homepage.
What's the consensus on Lycos? Ten sellers with 100 items would translate to 1,000 new listings there. 100 sellers, 10,000 listings. And let your buyers know you've moved.
posted on January 4, 2001 07:12:08 AM
I think there just needs to be more auction categories. Who knows if they would be enforced or not. I mainly deal in Civil War relics. Half the things listed in Civil War collectibles are Confederate licnese plates, bumper stickers and keychains.
There must be a way to segregate this stuff (not saying it's junk!) into categories away from the "real" stuff.
For example, Civil War Collectibles (period items) and Civil War Related (non=period related items) would eb a good start.
I think the same could be said about almost any of the collectibles categories.
