posted on September 24, 2001 08:40:41 PM new
I was actually thinking of listing on yahoo! childrens' book and pvc toys. This is after looking at my bids ( pitiful) on ebay! I am wondering if the fall out of AFA will affect yahoo? Yahoo looks pretty dead to me but maybe it will pick up?
posted on September 28, 2001 01:10:33 AM new
I had listed 3 items on yahoo that closed 9/12/01. All 3 sold. All 3 bidders paid. I got good prices and am a happy camper. Will continue to list things on Yahoo throughout the holiday season.
suz- I have done very well in the past with kids books on yahoo.
posted on September 28, 2001 04:42:56 AM new
Just a suggestion about listing books. They do ok, but I've had better luck by listing character books in the toys category under character, truck books in the toy-automotive category.
Some mothers don't go hunting for books (alas!) but when a book about trucks shows up while hunting for trucks, they are likely to buy them. I know this is probably not strictly by the rules-but if you can get a parent to buy a book for their kid-hey, the end justifies the means in this instance!
posted on September 28, 2001 01:22:00 PM new
Great advice~I listed about 7 romance ~ one BIN and one has a bid so far ~ I will see how it goes and list a few items per week and see it is better than ebay which is not doing anything so far for me this week !
posted on September 29, 2001 11:58:21 AM new
Bearmom makes a good point, especially since the kids book categories really SUCK on yahoo anyway. Don't the "powers that be" at yahoo have kids? don't their kids read? with a category selection like the that, one must wonder. *shaking head*. Even a separate "vintage" category would be sincerely appreciated as far as I'm concerned.
Thinking back, most of my kids book sales have been like bearmom said- care bears books listed in the care bears category, etc...her advice is sound.
posted on October 1, 2001 05:38:01 PM new
I'm not seeing any change in Yahoo, listings, bids or otherwise because of A4A. The bids are there but there's too many sellers willing to sell items for $2-$5 and that's where most of the bids are at in the categories I follow.
I was hoping that Yahoo might benefit in some way but I'm not seeing it.
AFA is now a non-issue at this point. There's only around 20,000 listings and they are decreasing at the rate of about 100 listings per hour.
