posted on February 25, 2001 06:11:47 AM new
They must be counting the numbers of bids and assuming that all auctions are paid for. Are these people really this stupid? No wonder people are having to fight for refunds for deadbeat bidders and that Yahoo never addressed the problem as serious. They have NO CLUE!!!!!
posted on February 25, 2001 08:15:36 AM new
Here's another way Yahoo is trying to increase fees. I got a "FREE" copy of Yahoo Magazine. Then I canceled, as they said I could. I have gotten 4 notices that I owe money. I responded once. I will not again, because A:I shouldn't have to and because B: they want me to use my own stamps.
Glen
posted on February 25, 2001 08:37:50 AM new
tinyheroes: glad to know that has happened to someone else out there. My daughter is under 18 and uses YaWho for email, chats, etc. About a year ago she recieved the Yahoo magazine. I immediately wrote cancel across the front (little attached letter said please look at free issue and if not interested write cancel) and wrote a little note that she was under 18. We never received another issue.
About a week ago I got a very threatening letter from YaWho that she had received her subscription and needed to pay for it immediately or appropriate measures would be taken. I wrote right back that subscription had been cancelled after first issue (I had kept the first letter) as stated in their letter and the child was precisely that "A CHILD". I also sent a copy to consumer affairs. Our state is great in the fact that if they can't handle it they will help me get it to the people who can.
posted on February 25, 2001 03:09:12 PM new
shaking my head over that entire article. They denied releasing a figure of 50%? Come on, is Tag really going to just go and do a report that they can't back up? I sincerely doubt it. Anyway, didn't that figure come from one of those "chats"? Someone refresh my memory, please.
Number of bids per item is completely irrelevant to me. My items sell with ONE bid- 1st bid wins. I'm not going to screw around with penny auctions- not on Yahoo anyway. On Yahoo an item can be listed as "hot" with tons of bids and still be selling for under $5, so what does the number of bids have to do with ANYTHING?????
