How can this be a good thing? With each passing day, I would think one of the Yahoo intellects (HA~HA)LOL, would realize they made a huge mistake. I have about 500 auctions still running with 5 days left. After that, it is BIDVILLE! Maybe they do not have a lot of traffic, but I am hoping that will change, Yahoo has dropped to #3 with amounts of listings, below Bidbay.
posted on February 2, 2001 08:19:25 AM new
deichen & RB-
here's something I came accross last week looking around in different catagories, I pulled up a few auctions with bids, I kept coming accross items with New bidders, just for fun I checked to see what else a few of the sellers had with bids, these were catagories of no real interest to me. I came accross an odd thing, a seller with about 400 listings, every single listing had bids on them, is that possible? 400 items and every single one having a bidder? I did a random check of the bidders 9 out of 10 were new.
Am I wrong for thinking the counts are off? wayyyyy...........off?
I also ran a search in a few of my catagories, I found hundreds of listings that led nowhere, I only noticed this because the discription did not fit the catagory by any means, when I pulled up the auctions there was nothing to bid on, you had to email the seller to find out how to buy the item. One person had close to 1000 of these type of listings, if Yahoo were to aggree to fvf's wouldn't this person with 1000 listings of nothing make out like a bandit? He would not have to worry about ever having to pay anything and would still be running 1000 listings of nothing if yahoo agreed to the fvf, do you think this person would continue to list 1000's of nothing if they had to pay for it up front? Do you mean I have been paying to feature items to get to the first page because there was 1000 nothings in my way? Is that okay with you? not me.
posted on February 2, 2001 09:02:06 AM new
You are not wrong about the counters. My AW 'dumb' counter says I have 5 hits on an item. (Obviously one of them is me.) The Yahoo! counter says I have 48 hits.
Is Yahoo! trying to fool the seller into thinking there is more traffic than there really is? Even items with no hits at all per AW has 12 to 20 per Yahoo!
posted on February 2, 2001 09:22:06 AM new
the counters in yahoo while they were free did not clear when item was relisted.
Another thing in US stamps, you have additional boxes to put the stamps critical info in condition, #, gum quality. If the items close with out winners, your relist can very easily have the wrong info if you dont pay attention to every detail.
For instance I had some used stamps that were used, hinged in f/vf condition that did not sell, I relisted not thinking to double check these little boxes. This used, f/vf, hinged stamp's little critical info box said the stamp was, mint, xf, and post office state gum with out my knowing it until a buyer called me on it and called me a liar. Of course they didn't want to hear an excuse. US stamps, currency and coins are all this way, the international items are not since I was relisting both types I just overlooked it not paying attention, just clicking away watching my soaps thinking it was so easy.
posted on February 2, 2001 09:29:59 AM new
My items are not re-listings. All of them were downloaded new with AMPro and some of them have never been listed before. Either the Yah-who? counters are just plain goofy or else the AW counters are. The're just not even close.
posted on February 2, 2001 10:03:40 AM new
The other day, I found a site that was offering to pay you for your hits if you use their counters in your auctions. Forgot who or where, it only gave me more distrust in any count being valid.
Hey!does, if you sign Up, I'll sign up, sound familiar ?
What else are these counters monitoring if they will pay you to use them?
posted on February 2, 2001 02:13:41 PM new
The place with the counters that advertises it will pay you for "hits" is Bidbay, but I have never signed up and really know nothing about it. There is no way that a person would have 400 items and bids on every one! That would not even happen at Ebay where most people get about 50% of their auctions with bidders. Were the 400 items started at $.01? That is the only way! The other person (with 1000 listings - and you had to email them to find out about the item) sounds like a scam artist. Too Bad, makes the rest of us legimate sellers look bad.
The Yahoo Intellects was a JOKE! LOL
I have always thought the counters were off! Sometimes mine would say 0 and yet I had a winner! Imagine that!
posted on February 3, 2001 07:10:33 AM new
BATBAT1 --- your right about never having more hits on Yahoo than ebay!
Except --- A few items out of the hundreds I have listed on Yahoo somehow managed to turn up on the front page for a time. This was "way back when" before Yahoo started charging for "featured" items.
On those few times when this happened, my page views jumped up into the several hundreds.
posted on February 3, 2001 08:27:40 AM new
rolllanotherone - what you discovered last week on the searching with the 1000 listings and no item is the kind of CRAP that ruined it for all of us I feel on Yahoo.
With it being free, these kinds of sellers if you can even call them that, used the site to Spam the hell out of it, making it impossible for buyers to find anything but spam...
This is a shame to realize this was one of the problems...I do know I would go looking in a catagory for something to buy and being as i DON'T have DSL or Cable modem, I would wait slowly for pictures to load up to just look at them. And it would be page after page of the same dam thing...
It made me give up even looking...Felt my years slipping by waiting.
Now I hate the fees and it's just done me in as far as Yahoo goes, but have seen a total DECLINE in one of my sections of listings and an honest bidding on some of my items that I listed a lot, but couldn't be found for the junk in that section.
I can see where this also is the reason that yahoo can't go FVF's, we still would have these idiots around.
Now to find a solution, darn is there one.
