I was on ebay today looking for clothing for my son, and decided to check Yahoo. It was eye-opening. First,I had so much trouble with the search results that I never found anything the right size! Kept getting everything BUT what I was trying to get.
But I also noticed that auctions had bids like crazy! The overall look was very similar to what I see on ebay. Multiple bids, too. I mostly look for lots, and they seem to be doing fine.
I've also sold two auctions of my own in the past couple of days - low ticket items - and will continue to feed things into the system until my credit runs out.
posted on March 25, 2001 05:56:29 AM new
Have they changed the way the search engine searchs? That is one of the things I really liked about Yahoo (Old Yahoo).
Used children's clothes have always sold well on Yahoo, and the multiple bids are because name-brand clothes are starting at low prices (usually $1.00). If you'd looked for children's clothes on Yahoo several months ago, you'd have seen the same thing....just more of them.
The only things I'm able to sell now on Yahoo are giveaways---at a small fraction of their value---that are under $15.00. In fact, the only people I'm getting who are willing to pay $2-3 more to purchase immediately at the "buy price" now are foreigners.
No one can convince me that this is supposed to be an improvement.
posted on March 26, 2001 03:56:17 AM new
Is that situation much different on ebay? Just wondering. I was assuming people were selling their children's secondhand clothing, so pretty much any money would be a windfall.
posted on March 26, 2001 04:25:47 AM new
I agree. I have been selling clothes my little boy had grown out of on Yahoo and those auctions did fairly well. Of course they were either new or close to new as well as having alot of brand named items I was selling. I had alot that were brand new with tags or never worn due to unscheduled growth spurts I have moved most of them over to bidville when they started charging listing fees. It wasnt worth it to sell something for $1.00 or so that was charged listing fees that didnt sell the first time around.
posted on March 26, 2001 02:10:15 PM new
Yahoo is still closing on about one-third of all items during weekends with an average price of around $40. I wonder how much in credits are still floating around out there.
Interestingly, another company competing against Ebay recently put in a listing fee. That's QXL Ricardo in Germany. About 9 months ago they had 450,000 items combined and now it's 75,000 items and still dropping (84,000 minus 10% duplicates; they allow sellers to list in 2 categories at no cost; they put in success fees first). Ebay has about 700,000 items in Germany (and growing) with both listing fees and success fees since early last year.
posted on March 26, 2001 08:13:16 PM new
keziak- I don't know specifically about childrens' clothing but my ebay sales in general have been sucking lately.
I have moved most of them over to bidville when they started charging listing fees. It wasnt worth it to sell something for $1.00 or so that was charged listing fees that didnt sell the first time around.