posted on August 14, 2000 05:47:32 PM new
I've searched up & down and I can not find waht fees (if any) Yahoo charges sellers to list and sell itmes on the auction.
posted on August 14, 2000 06:39:41 PM new
No fees!!!!!!!!!!!!! List till your eyes pop out of your head! And encourage as many others as you can to list on YAAAAAAHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
posted on August 14, 2000 09:47:03 PM new
Well, for now enjoy the fact that it's free.
You will only be charged if you feature your items.
What we should probably all do is just pay to feature our better items whenever possible. This might help to keep Yahoo fee-free longer. Also, if we use Yahoo's PayDirect service but leave money from customer payments in our accounts instead of transferring it all out right away, Yahoo will make some money off the "float". This might also be a way to help keep Yahoo free. Just some thoughts.
posted on August 15, 2000 05:13:55 AM new
grapey - Yahoo become like ebay? I don't think so. Why would they follow ebay's misguided path? Yahoo is not dum like ebay. Ebay alienates their customers and Yahoo has much too much sense to make that mistake. In the future people will say "put it up on Yahoo" at least as often as they say "Ebay". Mark my words. I understand about the
charging, but when they do I bet that you are glad to pony up the cost. When this happens, I will meet you back here and you tell me if I am right or wrong.
I also agree with CAgrrl. Lets make 'em so many bucks with PayDirect that the idea of taking any action that may offend us, and risk losing the revenue we generate would not even be entertained for 2 seconds. To have Paydirect become a phenomenal success and hugely profitable would be just desserts for Ebay and it's fees upon fees and Billpoint. The good guys win. Chickens come home to roost. As a matter of fact, when you stick it to your customers - they DO abandon you in droves. This ought to be lesson 1 Bus 101. The universe does not like take take take and never give.
I (and most people I bet) would pay a quarter to transfer money in a heartbeat. Cheaper than a stamp, less trouble and quick. Zillions of quarters can be made a day, but no...... They have to go after a percentage of your sale and even the postage. Same with Amazon 1-click, and so people use only as a last resort if at all and resent it on high. Yahoo will never ever do this. I just can't see Yahoo taking such a foolish course of action.
YAHOO IS THE BEST AUCTION HOUSE IN AMERICA!
I DO YAHOOOOOO!
[ edited by VeryModern on Aug 15, 2000 05:14 AM ]
posted on August 15, 2000 05:29:38 AM new
VERYMODERN -
OH YE of Great Faith - I HOPE you are right. I moved to Yahoo 6 months ago, and love it. I love not being bombarded with endlessly changing rules, endlessly increasing fees, and what seems to me like a design to do everything possible to alienate the seller.
I hope Yahoo is taking notes. eBay is NOT winning, they are losing sellers by the droves, and not just the small time seller, the Power Sellers are moving out of eBay also.
I LOVE YAHOO! YAHOO JUST LEARN FROM EBAY HOW NOT TO RUN AN AUCTION!!!
posted on August 15, 2000 05:49:17 AM new
Paul - I've some faith, yes but my reasoning here is intellectual. We know that the the best predictor of behavior in the future is the behavior in the past.
Ebay sticks it to sellers on average nearly once a week in one form or another, and I would not expect that to change.
Yahoo has been very very good to sellers and looked for revenue in creative ways and I also would not expect this to change.
Me? I bet the odds.
[ edited by VeryModern on Aug 15, 2000 05:50 AM ]
posted on August 15, 2000 09:28:59 AM new
I tried to warn people about Meg when she was first hired at egreed. No one listened.
I was the first to use 1st Bid Wins and told everyone on DNF about it and they acted like I was doing something weird. Now, it's become the "in" thing.
Now, I'm telling you that we do not need a gazillion sellers over here on Yahoo filling the pages with KKK merchandise and used underwear, and filling up the categories with 1,000's of one thing, causing our stuff to get buried in the sloth. And again......no one is hearing the tree falling in the forest.
posted on August 15, 2000 09:44:03 AM new
I appreciate your point grape - but as long as there is no management change at Yahoo I think we will get what we have been getting.
posted on August 17, 2000 01:53:44 AM new
heygrape,
I hate to tell you this, but Yahoo already HAS their share of used underwear for sale---just look in the "Adult: Erotica" category (it'll break your heart).
And I CONTINUALLY come across sellers with identical new (as opposed to antique, one-of-a-kind) items being offered in multiple listings, against Yahoo's spamming rules. The problem will only get worse as more "first-time" sellers of new goods FIND Yahoo and go crazy with the free listings. If everyone would report offenses to NW as they run across them, it would help keep the problem to a minimum.
