posted on June 4, 2001 11:01:14 AM new
Let's not denigrate the flies by lowering their status to that of dot.com management or the computer trade press....
posted on June 4, 2001 04:15:25 PM newYahoo has 3 million auction listings and ranks behind eBay, which hosts about 6 million auctions daily.
Actually, this could be right, technically speaking. Yahoo Japan has 2 million. The US has 200,000. Some of their European sites have over 100,000. Add up all their sites all over the world and the total might have been about 3 million when the story was put together.
On the other hand, the author under-reports Ebay's total. If you add up their US site at about 5.2 million, their German site at 700,000 items, UK at 120,000, iBazar France at 400,000, Italy at 180,000, and Korea and other smaller countries Ebay is around 7 million.
posted on June 4, 2001 05:31:54 PM new
On the other hand, since this article was about the changes in YaFool since they started charging listing fees, and since they did that only in the USA, one can infur that the figures quoted were from the USA site only...
Which makes it YaWho's # of auctions (really 200,000) overstated by a factor of 15, and ePay's # overstated by a million (really 5 million). That is easy to verify. I would guess the sell thru # is pure crapola as well.
posted on June 4, 2001 06:22:54 PM new
That sell through % and average sold $ value rose is probably true, but in the categories I've watched total sales and total $ value are certainly down greatly. I believe those claims are made up out of thin air and that they quote no statistics to back them up because they didn't bother to generate any.
. Hey, Dimview, is cr*p a nice word for your fill-in-the-blank?