posted on February 15, 2002 08:29:40 AM new
I have my current listings bookmarked. It was working up until about 5 minutes ago! When I try and pull up my listings I get a page that states NO LISTINGS!!!!
When I toggle on view photos only I get NO AUCTIONS WITH THUMBNAILS AVAILABLE!!!!
From "My Auctions" they are showing and they are appearing in the category listings, but if you click on SEE SELLER'S CURRENT AUCTIONS
you get NO LISTINGS!
I listed an item for $1.00 NR and featured it at a price high enough to get on the front page of my category featured section (guaranteed loss on the item) just to hopefully get people to look at my other auctions. Even included a GALLERY link to the VIEW BY PHOTO ONLY page. If they can't see all my listings I am screwed!!!
posted on February 15, 2002 08:33:09 AM new
Just happened to me. Each refresh yielded another amount of auctions. This has happened in the past and is a tad scarry when you first encounter the glitch. It will correct itself.
posted on February 15, 2002 09:10:47 AM new
Yes, my auctions are back now. However, while I was looking at mine, I checked a few other sellers (not just in my category) and found they also had NO LISTINGS.
I have alerted Yahoo Auctions, but I know from past experiences that intermittent problems/glitchs seem to basically be ignored by Yahoo. I do understand that it is almost next to impossible to figure out what's going on if they can't make it happen on their end.
It just makes me feel bad, because I spend so much to feature my "advertising auction" to hopefully get all my auctions looked at. I wonder how many will find I have NO LISTINGS????
I wonder how many other sellers have this happen to them and they aren't even aware of it? That's the problem with glitches. Now you have one, now you don't...if your not there to experience it, you don't know it's happened, and just end up wondering why you had so few VIEWS much less bids!
posted on February 15, 2002 09:55:40 AM new
I logged off Yahoo and then back on and it solved the problem.
I will not spend money ( or free credits ) to feature on Yahoo. There are so few items and the categories are so messed up that to me it is not worth the price. I suppose for some items it is worth it.
Because of the low level of bidding on Yahoo I treat it like a store with a buy price a little higher than the opening price. It's sort of like a Bidville but with much more traffic.
posted on February 18, 2002 08:23:08 AM new
Well Pooh! I launched some auctions Sunday (2/18) night and not all of them are showing on my Seller's List. They are showing up in "My Auctions" under my NOT SOLD list! According to Yahoo, they closed without buyers on 2/24/02!
I have emailed several times over the past week about this on again off again listing of my auctions and get one of two canned responses. Either the problem is "apparently transient" and may be the fault of my browser, internet connection or possibly Yahoo OR they cannot duplicate the problem on their end.
When I got the Yahoo generated emails of my launches which have a link to the specific auction and then a link to view all my auctions, I sent it to Yahoo Auctions and asked them to follow the link to view all my current auctions. They would see that the auctions they were informing me had launched were NOT on my seller's list!
Maybe, someone will actually click on the link they provided in the email and see for themselves "the transient problem".
Very frustrating. I don't mind paying to list, but I would like to at least be assured of getting what I pay for. I really am beginning to wonder how widespread this "glitch" is and how much impact it is having on my auctions. I had been puzzled for the past few weeks as to why some of my auctions had high numbers of views and some had very few. I now believe it's because this glitch happens a lot and there are auctions running that rarely show up on my Seller's Current Auction list! Now you see them, now you don't....
posted on February 18, 2002 08:34:01 AM new
I usually upload a spreadsheet through the Bulk Loader option. I sent 20 auctions yesterday, all were accepted with no errors. It seemed to take at least 2 hours for the auctions to show up, where usually it's only a couple of minutes.
Now I'm only showing 15 auctions- the other 5 seem to have disappeared.
posted on February 18, 2002 08:39:15 AM new
It did it to me again last night too and it's still messed up now. The number of auctions I had listed was always changing and the number of sold items was changing and the listing order wasnt' right either. Not a browser problem but Yahoo.
There is nothing on their announcement page about the glitch. You'd think they would at least place a note in there.
posted on February 18, 2002 09:16:11 AM new
Thanks guys! I really have had this going on for weeks now, and I have bombarded Yahoo with emails, request for help. I have used their Feedback form:
Maybe if ya'll also reported the problem and maybe anyone else who has experienced it will notify them they will actually take a look.
I complain so much to Yahoo Auctions I think they have me on ignore or they think I'm just a fruitcake with nothing better to do than bother them and I'm making it all up!
posted on February 18, 2002 09:51:02 AM newlovepotions-I am concerned only because when a potential buyer clicks on SELLER'S CURRENT LISTINGS or searches by USER ID they will get a list of your auctions, but ONLY the ones that are appearing on your SELLER's LIST. If they are not currently showing on your SELLER's LIST, they do not come up on the page that the bidder will see if he looks at your other auctions. Not even in the photo only view.
I often start one item at $1.00 NR and feature it at a cost sufficiant to get me on the top 3 pages of my category (there are often 15 pages of just featured auctions in the category I sell in-some sellers bid $5.00+ a day just to get on the first page). I will take a loss on this one auction if need be to generate traffic on my other auctions. I have a "gallery" link in my auctions also which will take them to the PHOTO ONLY view of my current listings.
I have noticed that despite all of this, there have been many auctions that never got much viewing. It is because they are not showing up on the CURRENT AUCTIONS list.
If you have an item that is searched by specifics or listing in a category that someone could actually "browse" the entire category, there may not be a problem. However, if you list in a very large category (my main category has 9,000+ items currently listed) you need your auctions, all of them, to show up if/when potential buyers clicks on your SELLER'S CURRENT AUCTIONS or LIVE AUCTIONS tab, if you hope to get any views at all.
This glitch makes that impossible. I believe it does impact the final outcome of your run.
posted on February 19, 2002 06:45:44 PM new
I noticed they said it was only the "My Auctions" page...they didn't mention the fact that if the auctions weren't showing up under "selling" in "My Auctions" , they weren't showing up on the "Seller's Current Auctions" page or when searching by user ID.
Yes, it seems the auctions are showing up in the category, but if someone wanted to look at all your auctions, they might not be getting them all!
I would say maybe they weren't aware of this fact, but I personally told them about it in 4 seperate emails!
