posted on February 22, 2001 10:05:41 AM
As I check out the Categories I once posted items in. I now see 1-2 pages of Featured Auctions. My guess would be that sellers are useing Feed back credits. What will Yahoo's listing look like when the free credits run out?
posted on February 22, 2001 10:48:00 AM
Depends on how long buyers stick around.
I'm using my funny money and getting good results (of course I'm a lot more careful in choosing what to list). If I continue to get good results once my funny money is used up, I'll stick around.
posted on February 23, 2001 01:05:07 PM
Click "Options" then "Billing Summary" to see your Wallet account.
One of my two open listings of my "hottest" items has 64 pageviews now, with NO BIDS. I used to get a buyer within the first 5 pageviews on this item (at a HIGHER PRICE), and now 64 people have looked at it without even putting it on their watchlist. I checked all over the internet and no one is selling it for less money, so WHAT'S WRONG?????????
I looked around eBay (on closed auctions) and the bidding is pathetic, so I'm not going to pay to list there right now. I had a couple good sales on BidVille, then discovered the buyer was a customer of mine on Yahoo who wants more of my merchandise (I had told her some was listed there, so she registered and bid there). I can sell it directly to her without even posting it on an auction.
I think you're right---YaWho will probably announce that all the credits have to be used up by a certain date or be lost. Guess it's time to go take a job somewhere and forget internet selling.
posted on February 23, 2001 06:14:31 PM
Granee - thanks a lot! I still have $400 to play with and might as well use it now than lose it eventually.
About your item, I don't know without knowing what it is, but my things [secondhand books] have been doing OK. I use BIN a lot and often get no bids at all until the BIN sale. How do you know that they are not "watching"? I thought there was no way to know that.
YaWho will probably announce that all the credits have to be used up by a certain date or be lost. Guess it's time to go take a job somewhere and forget internet selling.
You may be right about this but I doubt it will happen. I still believe that the credits were part of Yahoo's grand scheme to sustain their listings after the fees were imposed. In the mean time the new users and a few sellers who refused to leave will pay listing fees. Puting a cut off date on credits right now would destroy what is left of their site. I don't think that's what they want....
