posted on February 9, 2001 01:41:50 PM new
So far I am very happy with the new Yahoo, better then ever, easier then ever, more catagories, more deadbeat options, better photo's, etc. etc. etc. The new catagories are the best, can't wait to find them and use them all. Listings fees are minimal compared to what we get and the time we save, for me to spend hours listing is hours of wages lost, for 20 cents I not only get a bookkeeper, I also get an accountant, a filer, an analyst, a secretary and help when needed, never had a problem with yahoo in general only spammers which are gone to spam land.
thank you Yahoo and all the sellers/buyers who are still here and even those who have left you ALL made it happen. Ya'all come back.
posted on February 9, 2001 02:02:03 PM new
rolllanotherone >
So far I am very happy with the new Yahoo, better then ever, easier then ever, more catagories, more deadbeat options, better photo's, etc. etc. etc. The new catagories are the best, can't wait to find them and use them all. Listings fees are minimal compared to what we get and the time we save, for me to spend hours listing is hours of wages lost, for 20 cents I not only get a bookkeeper, I also get an accountant, a filer, an analyst, a secretary and help when needed, never had a problem with yahoo in general only spammers which are gone to spam land.
Thought I'd check in to see what my favorite seller is doing. You know, the one that's mostly into stamps.
Well, they're down to 25 listings, with four bids on them. And this month hasn't been so kind either, they've made just five sales thus far.
So, rolllanotherone, how are your auctions running these days?
While I'm at it, let me take a look at the last eight sellers from whom I purchased items.
Seller A - no listings.
Seller B - 175 listings.
Seller C - no listings.
Seller D - 31 listings.
Seller E - no listings.
Seller F - 5 listings.
Seller G - no listings.
Seller H - 185 listings.
Half of them are gone, several others look to be in the process of moving.
rolllanotherone >
Ya'all come back.
Why? Yahoo!Auctions is merely a rinky-dink operation at this point.
typos.
[ edited by dimview on Feb 9, 2001 02:19 PM ]
posted on February 9, 2001 03:31:01 PM new
Well, I am sure yahoo can find some democrats who enjoy throwing money around to donate to the lost cause charity that is Yuckoo auctions.
http://ballsandstrikescollectibles.beckett.com/
posted on February 9, 2001 03:37:20 PM new
It doesn't matter what Yahoo does without the bidders to support the fees it is a losing battle for sellers. But, it is good to see that the 95% of junk that was clogging up the coins category is gone now even though there is still spam present. If Yahoo starts enforcing their TOS (which would be the second stupidist thing they ever did) a lot of the sellers still there would be gone because they are using the few listings they are placing to advertise of external links to their website. If Yahoo truly did listen to what their sellers thought this fee would have been in the form of a final value fee and that has now been proven (unless of coarse 2.5 million of their listings were by just a few sellers listing a lot of stuff and the other 300,000 were a lot of sellers listing just a few things making them the majority, which we all know is not the case). Yahoo has shown their true colors and now they will fade to black.
Edited to make sure you understand that the 95% I was talking about was a reduction in total coin auctions not that 95% of the spam is gone.
[ edited by mcelhinn001 on Feb 9, 2001 05:44 PM ]
posted on February 9, 2001 04:04:41 PM new
mcelhinn001
If you see inappropraite listings please help by reporting it to neighborhoodwatch, I love stampers and hate to have to sort thru garbage like you mention to buy or sell in, it is this way everywhere. Just remember sometimes sellers do make errors in listings as far as catagories go, if it is way out of a catagory theme or obscene report it, if you get spam email report to [email protected].
DIMVIEW_ You are so bright!!!!! where else do I sell? Karma sucks, get a life and change your name to "Openmind" Yahoo is not the only option, I hope you enjoy the bones I throw while I sell as usual elsewhere, does the features I pay for put your panties in a bunch? Wear boxers like real men who have coulionies that are functional,
Nothing like a hen pecked man in a womans world trying to take over. Your degragation is your own failure much like Napoleons. You know the little man with no coulionies??.
Husbands paycheck net for the week $1347.18, mine $482.67. I have a way to go, may take a few more years of online sales and stock trading to match husbands non internet wages, but when I do, he can retire and quit protecting moron she-mans like you! I am very patient, odviously you want something for nothing NOW!!
posted on February 9, 2001 04:26:00 PM new
rolllanotherone >
Ya'all come back.
DIMVIEW_ You are so bright!!!!! where else do I sell? Karma sucks, get a life and change your name to "Openmind" Yahoo is not the only option, I hope you enjoy the bones I throw while I sell as usual elsewhere, does the features I pay for ...
First we get a "Ya'all come back" from you, only to learn that you're posting your auctions someplace else.
Quite disingenuous, don't you think? Or maybe you're just trolling?
posted on February 9, 2001 04:53:58 PM new
Who cares about her husbands paycheck or hers. This person is out of line and it would do everyone a BIG favor to deliver her back to Yahoo's doorstep.
posted on February 9, 2001 04:57:22 PM new
Actually, I would have thought that Yahoo paid it's employees better than that! They surely can afford it now that they are charging listing fees.
posted on February 9, 2001 08:11:03 PM new
If MY husband's net paycheck were $1347.18 per week, you better believe *I* wouldn't be spending all this time and effort trying to sell on stupid online auctions!!!!!!!!!!
I guess if I had that money-cushion to fall back on like YOU do, rollanotherone, I wouldn't care about paying Yahoo's outrageous fees, either. But since my family must be PAUPERS in your eyes, putting a child through college on a fraction your YOUR income, I must not be a "quality" seller in your eyes, certainly not GOOD ENOUGH for the "new, improved, spamless, junkless" Yahoo Auction.
I may not have money, but I have enough couth not to talk with a FILTHY MOUTH.
Please refrain from saying "Y'all" again. You are giving ALL Southerners a bad name.
posted on February 9, 2001 09:23:15 PM new
It's pretty clear what the real beef the buyers who post here defending Yahoo have. These buyers are bottom feeders, looking for giveaway prices which they often get on ePay but seldom got on Yahoo.
Hey, most of us sellers are bottom feeders too..that's how we get our merchandise...at thrift stores, flea markets and garage sales. And to make a profit we used 1st bid wins and/or started the bid at a price we were looking to get.
So as sellers we were not looking for more bottom feeder buyers. We were looking for the type who buy their clothes brand new in the mall even though the thrifts are FULL of quality clothes for 5% the price.
We sold to a higher class buyer who hacked their way through all that junk until they found their treasure (and some even used the search engine and missed all the Spam and junk)and were willing to pay big bucks: $5, 10, or $20 for an item. Bless their souls. Looks like we had a better clientelle than ePay all along.
Now that the site is so much improved, how do the bottom feeders like it now? My guess is they are still not buying anything.
posted on February 9, 2001 10:02:28 PM new
Sorry moderator, did not mean to offend, I think faster then I type (6wpm)
Cut the wages in half for travel expenses
( southern cal 200 -300 miles a day and or 4 hours idling at the border patrol), cut them in half again for meals, childcare ect. Then expect to be laid off anytime and live off $200 a week. We have made more, we have made less. Just try to keep ahead of the game, auctions help!!
Auctions got us thru a 2 month lay off last year, it was nice and we enjoyed spending the time together, I kinda wish another lay off would come up just to get a break from the madness. Yahoo(or any auction for that matter) will eventually get better.
I revell if I have $20 come a week in auctions, more is better but it's all good, worked hard for it and it gives hope there is life beyond being a constructions workers wife chasing someone elses dream.
posted on February 10, 2001 07:20:55 AM new
I thought rolllanotherone's husband was in construction or something like that. That was what she posted in an older thread.
"he can retire and quit protecting moron she-mans like you!" How do you protect when you build?
posted on February 10, 2001 09:21:23 AM new
Hahahah this Rollanotherone is HILARIOUS. Letsee, the last time she actually had any auctions on any site was at Amazon under another name. I tracked them just for kicks because of her abusive posts. The last time I tracked them, she had 347 active/closed auctions in a 30-day period, with a gross bid per auction of thirty cents. YES, I mean THIRTY CENTS. And this was entirely typical of her sales record, and meant she actually LOST money selling by auction after the fees (subscription, and featured).
This got her and her family through a layoff? LMAO.
posted on February 10, 2001 09:57:57 AM new
Here is the comment from one buyer who used instant purchase this past week after I asked what they thought of the site with the changes?
"I do like Yahoo Auctions site better now."
As we all know they could have had it under the old Yahoo Auctions or even now at my start bid, since I normally do not use reserves and the normal for Yahoo auctions was one bid or may as well have called them all first bid wins!
If you relisted the items long enough, someone would hopefully buy them?
Maybe in five years? Who cares? It was Free!
As of recent though the few auctions I have been running draw a couple of bids! That in itself used to almost be a miracle on the old Yahoo!
I normally figured my items would sell for my start bid, so naturally I started higher on the old Yahoo then on E-bay and started using the auto resubmit as the sellers who were listing 1,000's of items with multiple Id's were doing!
The few items I have been selling have drawn bids or Instant Purchase!
Same has been true on E-Bay! Either Bids (some quite competitively) or Buy It Now which I normally have above what I normally expect to get!
