posted on February 15, 2002 07:33:00 AM new
My sales have been higher since the end of the free listing days. The sport card listings doubled on FLD and I don't think there was a corresponding increase in buyers at that time. I have noticed that many of my recent buyers have old feedback, but none in several months. Looks like the FLD or other changes are being effective in bringing some inactive buyers back to Yahoo.
posted on February 15, 2002 08:08:09 AM newstavecards-I am glad to hear your sales are still good!
I have been looking around for a different area to sell in, but it's tuff for me to find anything that seems to do well on Yahoo that I actually know something about! I must confess, I know nothing about more than I know something about!
If at first you don't succeed, try try again...
I've heard that all my life, but not sure how many times your suppose to try again before you go from "determined" to "stupid"?
Edited to add: Sports cards I know absolutely nothing about except they are collectible and apparently sell!
[ edited by sulyn1950 on Feb 15, 2002 08:15 AM ]
posted on February 16, 2002 10:13:52 AM new
We do sports cards on Yahoo and it was VERY good for us. The last two weeks have been real slow. But I think because the football market is now over, and basketball/hockey is dead, it wont pick up again until baseball picks up.
posted on February 16, 2002 06:56:27 PM new
It's almost doubling from 16% with FLD, to 30% currently. It's a shocker, I hadn't had these decent results for a long time. Good end prices too.
posted on February 17, 2002 06:12:01 AM new
Not very good, nothing like the steady 10% we had before last January (which doesn't really sound too great either, but then a lot were relists - nice relists, though!).
We sell vintage kitchenware, china, linens, etc. and have had interest - several customers emailed us to ask when and if we were putting up the pieces they missed during FLD, but we had over 900 up for the free listing, and can't afford to relist all those (or even a lot of those) with the kind of sell-through we have now!
We used to sell about a third of of our pieces into Japan, that market seems to have completely dried up on Yahoo, too.
posted on February 17, 2002 09:04:19 AM new
It is getting more and more difficult to sell items on online auctions these days. The hefty listing fees at eBay can eat you alive if you do not sell enough items and the same is true even on Yahoo if you list a LOT of items.
It must be some kind of Darwinian thing where the unadaptable get weeded out or where there are too many of something and only the strong survive. There's a lot of weeding out going on right now.
The only alternative to E & Y are the VERY low traffic, but mostly free sites, where you can still garner a few sales here and there.
posted on February 25, 2002 08:05:25 PM new
Yahoo is committing suicide. I used to list with them but they allowed every disgruntal manufacture the right to hagle w the venders. They have alot of problems w their managment. I'm able to sell the same items on ebay wo any problems so guess who I'm spending money with. I may give them another chance but they better clean up their act!
