posted on May 23, 2002 01:01:07 PM new
You know, I've tried. Stayed with Yahoo, sold over a hundred items on Yahoo since "the change", despite NO customer service, NPB, fee increases and so on. I just tried to submit a dozen auctions and I have an invalid wallet ( even though my credit card was charged $1.00) Enough is enough. I can get abused on Ebay, I don't need Yahoo. So long Yahooers and good luck. You'll need it.
posted on May 23, 2002 01:34:53 PM new
I think yahoo's attitude is we dont need auctions anymore. Yahoo was going to buy ebay so they have no plans for their own auctions anymore. They did try but sellers wont leave the bay unless its free, and yahoo was nuts for giving the free lunch to begin with. You can complain about no service, npb's, and fee increases but ebay has the same problems. If your looking for a better site try Bidville!
posted on May 23, 2002 01:47:21 PM new
I agree. I have very few kind words for Ebay. I guess what irritates me the most is that Yahoo had the site in place to at least give Ebay some sort of competion. Without that competion Ebay can become the Microsoft of Auctions. We all know the microsoft story. I really have come to the conclusion that Yahoo DOESN't really care what happeneds to its' auctions.
posted on May 23, 2002 02:36:25 PM new
I think what will happen is ebay will offer yahoo enough money to choke a horse and yahoo will accept thus ending yahoo auctions. Yahoo will then advertise ebay on the site. There really is no hope for yahoo because when they were free the sellers refused to revolt from ebay. If yahoo does end auctions its back to shows and flea markets for me. eBay is so slow its not worth the fees.
Oh and I was kidding about Bidville. It should be named deadville.
posted on May 23, 2002 05:22:16 PM new
eBay will never buy Yahoo Auctions. It doesn't have to because it has 95% of the online auction action anyway. That's like Micro$oft buying Linux. The only option Yahoo has, other than to plod along its present course, is to do what it just did with its overseas auctions and quit the auction business altogether. It would be foolish for eBay to pay even a single penny for the Yahoo Auctions. They could pay Yahoo millions per year to advertise their auctions on Yahoo but I think there are some eBay ads there already or all they were there all along.
Yahoo will probably not give up on their Yahoo Shopping as easily as it may on Yahoo Auctions. Online auctions are a dying breed anyway as even eBay is going more and more to the fixed price venue setup. All of the little Bidvilles together only equal a tiny percentage of eBays might and their collective disappearance will hardly even be noted by cyber historians.
posted on May 23, 2002 06:54:00 PM new
Bidsbids I dont think ebay will buy yahoo auctions, but they will offer yahoo money to end them. I figured there was something going on when they fired all the catagory managers, and stopped the FLD's all of a sudden. Fixed price is the wave of the future. Bidville really never had a prayer from the start since its all junk auctions that sat at yahoo until the fees began.
posted on May 23, 2002 07:55:16 PM new
Why pay them anything? They are dying ( except Yahoo Japan ) and they have been "circling the drain" for a while now. If Yahoo-USA auctions ceased tomorrow there would probably only be a 50,000 boost in eBay listing directly from that event. This way eBay can gloat about its only distant rival not having the "eBay appeal or winning formula" that caused the demise.
The niche auctions will be the only remote threat to eBay, auction-wise. The general auctions that are tiny ( BV, SYI, Carnaby, ACow, etc ) present absolutely no threat whatsoever to eBay and actually help the eBay cause by showing both sellers and buyers that those venues have nothing to offer either of them in terms of selection or low prices.
posted on May 23, 2002 08:00:40 PM new
Its power bidsbids. With yahoo out of the picture ebay would have a complete but legal monopoly on sellers. They could bring back checkout back knowing sellers have no place to go. I hope yahoo doesnt sell out, but with all the layoffs it looks bad in yahoo land.
posted on May 23, 2002 08:54:13 PM new
Yahoo will eventually get bought out, it's already been reported that some company is serious in buying it, plus paypal and several other online companies. Then, you might see improvements.
posted on May 24, 2002 03:54:48 PM new
You know, I just don't understand the mind set that only Ebay has the answer for on-line auctions. But it appears to be true. Because it was the first? Exposure? I don't know. At first I was excited about Bidville, but my listings were buried in all the other listings. So, free doesn't work. Amazon is a joke now, but at one time had potential. So Ebay is it? How sad.
posted on May 24, 2002 03:57:05 PM new
BTW My auctions posted all by themselves (even though Yahoo said my wallet was invalid) Most of the items have 0 page views and are featured.
posted on May 24, 2002 04:43:24 PM new
I can't see the value in featuring items on Yahoo anymore at all. Even if it was free I probably wouldn't waste the few moments it takes to feature.
eBay wasn't the first online auction but was an early entry in the field. I know that onsale.com started six months before eBay ( onsale.com went belly up ). I think Pierre got the idea from the other online auctions and not the fable about him looking for a way for his girlfriend to expand her Pez collection. The thing that set eBay apart from the early online auctions was its sense of community, a thing of the distant past now. In the early days everyone tried to help everyone out, like a small frontier town in the wild west.
