eSeller004
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posted on June 13, 2001 05:39:06 PM new
What the heck??? Is Yahoo cobranding with another Internet auctioneer? Something is definitely going on at Yahoo auction HQs!
Here's a link to UBID's Yahoo auctions:
http://user.auctions.yahoo.com/show/auctions?userID=auctionsbyubid&u=%3aauctionsbyubid
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granee
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posted on June 13, 2001 10:56:22 PM new
Well, since UBid has a clickable link in their listings to their OWN website, my guess is that they're not just another seller like the rest of us. . .but that they've paid YaWho Auction handsomely to list and advertise there----either that, or the censors at YaWho don't yet **realize** that the disallowed website link is in their listings.
Expect it to get a whole heck of a lot stranger & even MORE weird before it's all over----especially since eGreed is trying so desperately to woo Big Business to THEIR Auction. It's time to see who'll become the biggest Fool. 
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insightwatcher
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posted on June 14, 2001 06:35:12 AM new
Weird - so they can have a web site link but we can't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not that Yahoo actually cares whether they follow their own agreement or not - but if U-Bid can link back why not us????????????
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mallard88
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posted on June 14, 2001 10:04:27 AM new
You can post a Link on your auctions back to your homepage or web-store. Yahoo has no problem with sellers doing this.
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dimview
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posted on June 14, 2001 10:12:34 AM new
mallard88,
That was my understanding as well. I noticed that uBid had 23 listings running on Yahoo, with a link that redirected buyers to their own auctionsite with 12,000 listings.
I'm very surprised that uBid hasn't jumped on that excellent sell-through rate we've all been hearing about and list alot more stuff on Yahoo!
Wonder why they haven't?
< grin >
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olhickory
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posted on June 14, 2001 01:59:55 PM new
Insightguy,
Yahoo definitely allows links to other sites.
Hickory
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eSeller004
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posted on June 14, 2001 06:03:54 PM new
Yup, Yahoo allows links to external websites. All of my Yahoo auctions have links to my websites. Haven't been kicked off yet! 
Take advantage of the FREE advertising while it's available!
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granee
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posted on June 14, 2001 10:51:30 PM new
All of you who think Yahoo STILL allows links to webstores in their Auction listings haven't been following these threads over the past 4 or 5 months. . .where seller after seller after seller has told of having all their listings ended, their Wallet credits vaporized, their user names & feedback ratings inaccessible, their accounts completely closed (including Yahoo email accounts) because they violated YaWho's new TOS by putting links to their webstores in their Auction listings.
Taken from Yahoo! Auctions Guidelines at http://user.auctions.yahoo.com/html/guidelines.html is this: "You may not link to, post images or other content, or include advertisements for goods or other matter that: (a) describe items that you are not selling in Yahoo! Auctions. . ."
Those of you who put links to your webstores in your YaWho Auction listings AND ARE STILL GETTING AWAY WITH IT have been very, very lucky your accounts haven't yet been closed by YaWho.
Personally, I think it's a foolish move for YaWho to disallow webstore links. With eGreed clamping down on links now, Yahoo could pick up a MULTITUDE of unhappy eBay sellers IF they made their Auction seller-friendly once again.
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cuff
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posted on June 15, 2001 05:18:39 AM new
I was completely deleted for having links in my auctions at Yahoo. Everything relating to that ID was suddenly inaccessible, including my PayDirect account which contained credits.
$103.00 (a previously disputed amount) was RE-charged to my credit card account a few days before I was again cancelled for LINKS. That's when my ID was deleted along with my access to over 400 excellent feedback ratings from MY customers.
Let's all go to Neigborhood watch and report uBid!
msCuFF@BidVille
[ edited by cuff on Jun 15, 2001 05:19 AM ]
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cuff
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posted on June 15, 2001 05:30:46 AM new
Well... I don't see Neighborhood Watch on the uBid page. How very odd.
This is a Red Flag to any individual Seller who is not a Premium Seller or Merchant Auctioneer... You're next! When it happens check your credit card (if you are ALLOWED to access that information by the nazi's). There will no doubt be charges placed on it (days in advance) for the very auctions they just cancelled. Immediately contact your credit card company to dispute the charges. Auctions listed, charged for and then cancelled falls under "Services NOT Rendered". Consumer Law prevails on this one.
Additionally, if you have been affected by Yahoo Auctions in this manner go to http://www.ifccfbi.gov/cf1.asp
to file a complaint against Yahoo.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE FUTURE VICTIMS OF YAHOO AUCTIONS!!!
msCuFF@BidVille
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dimview
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posted on June 15, 2001 08:14:19 AM new
Cuff >
Well... I don't see Neighborhood Watch on the uBid page. How very odd.
Not odd at all. Yahoo provides "special" listings for its featured, premiere or whatever-you-want-to-call-them sellers.
But you can get around it. Here's ubid's "regular" listings.
http://user.auctions.yahoo.com/user/auctionsbyubid
And there it is. The neighborhood watch link.
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cuff
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posted on June 15, 2001 08:49:41 AM new
ah... thanks dimview.
msCuFF@BidVille
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mcelhinn001
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posted on June 15, 2001 03:44:17 PM new
Wasn't Yahoo supposed to drive their users towards their auction site. Ever since the fees, it seems like they are driving their buyers and sellers away. Links to ewanted, letting other auction sites advertise their presence complete with clickable links, and getting rid of sellers for no apparent reason except for maybe some boarderline gray area TOS issue. The laughable premium seller's program when only half the seller's in the program should even be there and half the seller's who aren't in it should be. Talk about alienating your customers. It really does not seem to me that Yahoo cares a whole lot about the auctions at this point maybe they figured they already blew it and now they are going to go ahead and make mistake after mistake until they are gone. Or maybe they have another agenda that is yet to be seen. I would not have been surprised to see them team up with another auction site to boost the numbers and audience. After all that is what eBay when they recently signed on excite and lycos auctions. But Yahoo seems to be letting these sites advertise with no return.
A little side note almost every premium seller I have clicked on has a link to their external web page where they have more items for sale as well as various other TOS violations. Maybe Yahoo needs to spend a little less time running around throwing people off for no reason and take care of the TOS violations in the premium seller auctions. It seems like they are rewarding them for breaking the same rules they delete other sellers' id's for. A big double standard and definitely sending the wrong message.
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dimview
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posted on June 15, 2001 04:28:25 PM new
mcelhinn001 >
Wasn't Yahoo supposed to drive their users towards their auction site.
Now we know that Yahoo! permits select users to provide website links within their listings, in direct violation of their Terms of Service (TOS).
A big double standard and definitely sending the wrong message.
Perhaps the Federal Trade Commission will show some interest and initiate an investigation into what sure looks like unfair business practices to me -- providing an advantage to select sellers, which in turns places all other sellers at a disadvantage.
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