posted on February 14, 2001 11:52:40 AM new
How unfeeling you are, pcalton. That person who pushes the canned response button will probably lose his/her part time job.
"As expected, listings have dropped, reducing clutter on the site and increasing sell-through, ultimately providing a better-quality experience for our consumers,"
Where exactly is this increased sell-through? I'm not seeing it!
[ edited by outoftheblue on Feb 14, 2001 12:12 PM ]
The site that has the auction counts of all the current popular sites.
248,000 on Yahoo Auctions now.
240,000 on amazon
298,000 on Bidville
I wont include Bidbay because that is an ITEMS number not a listings number. So the guy selling dutch auctions with a 1,000 quantity "Secrets of Ebay power sellers CD's" or " The ultimate SPY software they want BANNED in 34 countries" in at least 50 different categories really inflated bidbays totals.
http://www.lovepotions.net
posted on February 17, 2001 09:09:49 PM new
YooHoo should be humiliated by those numbers. They took a site that was on the verge of giving eBay a real run for its money and jumped up and down on it.
Instead of banning Klan and Nazi items from their auction site, they should have banned their marketing consultants from their board meetings...
posted on February 17, 2001 10:12:52 PM new
uhmm, I could be totally off the wall with this, but here goes.
Yahoo has all these international auction sites, and if I am not mistaken, Ebay only has the one. (please correct me if I am wrong)
If this is true, I think there is at least the possibility that worldwide, Yahoo was bigger than ebay. which puts this fiasco in a whole different light.
Please, if I am wrong on this, one correction is plenty.
does anyone know?
posted on February 18, 2001 08:11:50 AM new
Yahoo may be spread out over more area but eBay is by far the better ran site.
The sellers are thinking along the lines of bidders/sales than how many markets are being reached.
eBays listings numbers {without the foreign markets} are still way higher than Yahoos listing numbers ({with the foreign markets}.
Yahoo was gaining on eBay. For several years the sellers have been left to pretty much work on the Yahoo site and build it as they saw fit (and do what they could with what was there to work with). I thought we were doing a fairly good job about a year ago. Sales were picking up, eBay sellers were coming over to sell there, etc. Then due to all the whining Yahoo got involved and the downward spiral began.
posted on February 18, 2001 08:15:59 AM new
jimhow
I am afraid you are wrong there is: eBay Austria, France, Germany, Italy UK, Australia, Canada & Japan.
[ edited by insightwatcher on Feb 18, 2001 08:17 AM ]
posted on February 18, 2001 12:04:24 PM new
I'm listing for a fee about 20 auctions of good selling items. I'm not about ready to forfeit Yahoo when Yahoo hasn't forfeited. They still promote their auctions which is more than the other sites can say. Of course I carefully selected items of good selling items, and not unloading the junk I previously sold. I want an alternative to ebay and no other sites have filled that void yet so I won't abandon Yahoo.
[ edited by quickdraw29 on Feb 18, 2001 12:06 PM ]
posted on February 18, 2001 03:04:36 PM new
'Tweaking' usually implies very minor adjustments with small tools. Yahoo! would need the wrenches they used on the bolts to build the Golden Gate Bridge.
posted on February 21, 2001 06:57:30 PM new
Is, or (is not) Yahoo one of the best known and one of the most widely used search engines? I first found yahoo auctions when I used their engine to search for general things which had no relation to auctions. This week, I started a few auctions up again on yahoo. I have to see if the buyers are still coming there. All the buyers can't be at 2 auctions I will not name, since this is a YAHOO thread. (ebay and bidville)
posted on February 21, 2001 06:57:45 PM new
Is, or (is not) Yahoo one of the best known and one of the most widely used search engines? I first found yahoo auctions when I used their engine to search for general things which had no relation to auctions. This week, I started a few auctions up again on yahoo. I have to see if the buyers are still coming there. All the buyers can't be at 2 auctions I will not name, since this is a YAHOO thread. (ebay and bidville)
