posted on May 23, 2001 11:39:03 AM new
I just tried to relist some items and was unable to do so. I got this message instead:
In order to provide a safe auction environment for buyers and sellers, participants in Yahoo! Auctions may only use one Yahoo! ID for both selling and bidding.
This policy is intended to help eliminate spam from the auction listings and to block fraudulent or irresponsible participants from using Yahoo! Auctions. We believe that limiting the number of IDs helps to reduce the possibility of unfair auction practices.
This is definitely a policy change. I was able to re-list last Saturday without any problems.
Irene
[ edited by stockticker on May 23, 2001 11:39 AM ]
posted on May 23, 2001 11:58:12 AM new
What is new? Another Yahoo Blunder! I guess my 4 user names aren't worth anything, now! Oh well, I would not go back to Yahoo, anyway! I have over $150.00 worth of credits that I am not even using! What is the point of wasting my time, listing any more items?
posted on May 23, 2001 02:08:56 PM new
I had the same problem, and I couldn't list anything so I just did a new id with a different credit card, The thing was though I only had one ID and I still got the message that you did about having ony one ID or something, who knows, it was just weird...
posted on May 23, 2001 03:51:55 PM new
So how many Yahoo! users are there?
Recently there was the figure of 166 million registered users floating around, back when Yahoo!Auctions told us how they were dedicated to driving that audience to the auctions site. That effort, of course, failed.
Anyway, seems that if everyone had four IDs at Yahoo!, they only really had some 40 million registered users.
And most never clicked to visit Yahoo!Auctions. Heck, even former Chairman and C.E.O. Timothy Koogle was found bidding on auctions at eBay not too long ago.
posted on May 23, 2001 05:13:10 PM new
I have wondered about that 166 million figure. For instance a few months ago my teenage nephews birthday was coming up so I asked for his email add to send an online card. He remarked he had 25 diff Yahoo mail add's under fake names to "bug his friends with goofy stuff". When I questioned that he said some of his friends had up to 100 Yahoo mail adds. Of course you don't have to enter a CC for an email acct but between he & his buds it sounds like they account for 600 or so of those "registered Yahoo users". That's just one small clique of silly teens, no telling how many others there are around the world. Or how many actual unique visitors Yahoo has.
posted on May 23, 2001 08:35:36 PM new
If you make a simple second email that constitutes a Yahoo ID in their eyes.
If you take [email protected] as an email a completely unrelated person on the internet CANNOT make an auction ID of johndoe.
I have 4 yahoo emails so technically I have 4 Yahoo ID's to use within all of Yahoo's internet properties even though I only use one of them for auction purposes.
Someone long ago made the email of [email protected] even though this person has never done anything at the auctions I could not get lovepotions as my auction user ID
[edit] so no Yahoo sure as hell does not have 166 million registered users. and it would be like microsoft claiming it had 1 billion people using hotmail lol just because 1 billion emails were created(or it seems with the amount of spam I get from hotmail addys)
http://www.lovepotions.net
[ edited by lovepotions on May 23, 2001 08:38 PM ]
posted on May 27, 2001 01:59:21 AM new
YAHOO'S EVIL PLAN
STAGE I: TOS STAGE
Crack down on everyone remotely violating the TOS. Monetarily and systematically punish and delete Seller after Seller until things are trimmed down by 30% (side benefit: Collect a whole lot of money for featured auctions, cancel them due to vague TOS violation, then keep the money)
STAGE II: MULTIPLE ID'S STAGE
Delete all multiple ID's disregarding the fact that many Seller's separate product categories this way, and have worked hard for their feedback ratings, now lost.
(trim another possible 30% away as a mass exodus of Seller's ensues)
MY THEORY: This is a concerted effort by Yahoo Auctions to trim down their customer base to focus their services to a more elite breed of Yahoo Sellers (aka Premiere Sellers & Merchants). They cannot defeat eBay in the current auctions arena.
Fueled by desperation and panic these steps may be bold, but as a general rule people don't like underhanded tactics, and they WILL need Buyers to survive. Yahoo Auctions is on the way out. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
posted on May 28, 2001 07:47:18 AM new
stockticker,
Something may be a bit unclear about how that message kicks in and/or gets enforced; unfortunately nothing new with Yahoo for them not to lay out the rules clearly.
I have had more than one auction ID's separated for different products for customer convenience. Only one specialty seemed to be selling adequately since the fees were instituted, so I've only been using one ID for several months now. I didn't like this posting about the warning messages, so I tried an experiment a couple days ago, logging into one of the other ID's and relisting a dormant item description I'd cancelled earlier.
This was with the same credit card backing a Wallet account with all account address information listed identical to my active account ID, different Wallet password for the different seller name, though. I got no error message and the auction was immediately listed. I clicked to feature it and got the listing of others' daily bids to feature, then did a couple other auction manipulations, all as usual with no problems.
Maybe it takes the system a couple days to do a scheduled cross-comparison and I'll suddenly have my main ID crushed now? I almost never BID on Yahoo and use only the main ID when I do, so perhaps the system flags multiple accounts that are all listing and bidding both?
I think it's been shown that one of the very best ways to raise kids to be emotionally disturbed and crazy is to keep changing the rules for their behavior and doing it arbitrarily. So the question now may be, just WHY does Yahoo want a bunch of progressively more-disturbed and crazy users? Are they planning to do some sort of cyber-Marielito of all of us over to Ebay now like Castro did in real life, sending all his fruitcakes up to Miami?
OK, here's another image ... every time now that I see those TV car rental commercials... the ones with the brainstorming small group of Gen-X's going "Hmmmm how can we get the customer to the airport faster?" and "Hmmmm how can we let everybody know about our great deals?" and "Hmmmm what if we included a free personal trainer?" .... I find myself imagining a similar composite brainstorming group of Yahoo Auctions employees sitting around a table all yelling simultaneously in glee, "YES YES! We can send out a chain letter to watch for a muscle-bound lug flying to you using a rocket pack with specially-cracked walnuts every time you feature a new auction!!"
Am I crazy enough now to be put on a leaky boat heading north to Ebay?
posted on June 5, 2001 06:00:48 AM new
I have several yahoo accounts and so far nothing has happened. i use 3 of them for different auction sites and one as my personal. all of them have the same credit card number. maybe they will crush me shortly.
