posted on August 31, 2000 01:25:14 PM
I love AW and I have tried listing auctions on Yahoo through AW. I know about the pic issue and am willing to go over and manually add a pic for the gallery.
I don't seem to have as much room for my title going through AW as I do if I just list on Yahoo directly. So, am I crazy or Is it true that AW doesn't allow as much room for the title as Yahoo does?
posted on August 31, 2000 05:55:17 PM
You are not crazy. The last update has changed the limits. The old version of the bulk loader allowed the longer titles, the new version doesn't. A bunch of my auction titles are chopped off in the middle of the word before I noticed this change, too. What a mess!! Had to edit all my titles in my batches that I wanted to resubmit. I'm still working on that. I'm selling old, out of print books and the title matters a lot. The longer one sure was nicer.
posted on August 31, 2000 11:43:37 PM
I'm sure glad someone was able to answer labbie1's question. It seems like all too often someone tries to ask a legitimate question and then some troll comes along with a sarcastic answer. What a positive experience for those asking questions!
I'd be afraid to ask anything if I got laughed at.
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I may or may not be dmercer at any auction site.
posted on September 1, 2000 08:23:41 AM
The troll, didnt come along with a sarcastic answer at all.
I came out with a light hearted but truthfull
reply. I put up with the dead serious if your smile or talk your not worth my money type job and bosses all day long in my business there is room for profit and some cheer at the same time.
also if you read the question is about listing auction from auction watch not about listing them from ampro.
as far as laughing laugh and the world will laugh with you not only will you feel better but your health will improve.
if you read the news you will find stress will kill you and they been telling us how to releave stress with jogging and stuff now were reading the cure is causeing broken ankles torn mucles and pain that will last you for life .
The person that asked the question is right there may be less space for titles listing from AW to yahoo.
But they could still be crazy after all the only sane people out there are the ones that think they are crazy
by the way I may definately be Dman in all at all the places I auction and dam proud of it, I may even be Dman-N-Company.com auctions antiques and collectables INC.
call me a troll if you like no problem im still smilein.
posted on September 1, 2000 08:38:15 AM
WELL, since I had to quit using the AW system, as nice as it is, because of the picture issue, I wasn't aware of the shortening of the title because obviously, I used an older version in my tests.
Shortening the title area would immediately make me stop using the AW system. Because so many folks shop via SEARCH the title area is VERY, VERY important, and I feel we pick up lots of buyers because of our long titles, which may catch a buyer lets say of Dragons, with the word Medieval.
I wouldn't give up the long titles for any type of "convenience" because it isn't convenient if the item doesn't sell, or sells very slowly.
This to me is more serious than the picture issue.
It seems by the time you go in and make all the adjustments to the AW system, and other systems for Yahoo, that you could have done it manually faster, without repetitive actions.
I WISH someone would come out with a system just for Yahoo, that would accommodate the picture issue and keep the title length, and not be the cumbersome, bulk of the Yahoo Bulk Loader.
I got a mailing this week about a system from Auction Submit, and I didn't even try it when they remarked that the picture (thumbnail) wouldn't work through their system.
posted on September 1, 2000 09:36:42 AM dman3 LOL Good one!
dmercer Thank you for worrying about my feelings. You are obviously a very thoughtful person. I did however, take dman3's comment for what it was--just a joke and offensive at all. Thank you again for your thoughtfulness, though.
jwpc I agree that I would like to see more support for listing on Yahoo. I just wanted to see if others were having trouble being able to utilize the full length of the title available at Yahoo.
I guess I should write to AW and suggest that when you click the little button for Yahoo, it will automatically give you a longer title area consistent with Yahoo's. After all, right now, when you click on the Yahoo button, it checks to be sure that you don't have html coding that is inconsistent with Yahoo's proticol--i.e. it won't accept backgrounds.
posted on September 1, 2000 05:15:35 PMdman
OH! Okay, I was mistaken. My apologies then.
I had a similar situation recently. I left what I intended as a joking, teasing message, even included a to show that it was. But somebody left a long condeming message without a trace of a sense of humor, and before I could say anything in my defense two "dittoheads" had also tried and convited me. I figured what was the use in trying to say anything. I was already convicted, right?
About my tagline. I'm not hiding. In fact my REAL name is Mercer and first initial is "D" Instead of hiding behind a handle, I use my real name everywhere I can. On some auction sites I can use dmercer, on others someone else already got there first so I can't. I figured instead of listing each and every site with what username I'm using on those sites, a cute tagline would suffice.
Sorry if you can't see the humor in that, and decide to think to trying to hide something.
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I may or may not be dmercer at any auction site.
posted on September 1, 2000 06:12:21 PM
All this reminds me of a Far Side catoon. A man is on a psychiatrist's couch and the doctor is writing on his pad: "Just plain nuts". This is taped to my monitor-I often wonder why.
I hope that I'm not going to get nasty messages that I am unsympathetic to people who see psychiatrists.
By the way, dman3, I was amused by your answer to labbie1. It's nice to see some people still have a sense of humor. I think labbie1 enjoyed it too.
posted on September 1, 2000 06:26:02 PM
labbie1--as to your original question---the beauty with yahoo is that there is no middle man--it is just so dang refreshing. I put my pics on hard drive--Yahoo accepts them and puts the first one on photo gallery. I'm buzzed!!!! Yahoo has finally showed all of us how incredibly easy Listing can be. It's a sellers dream--just hope the bidders follow. Yahoo Rules for me right now!!! JMHO.
posted on September 1, 2000 07:47:32 PM
You guys crack me up!
jeanyu I kind of like the middle man so that I can schedule the auctions at the times that I want them to begin for the whole week or whatever. One thing that I do like about Yahoo is that you can set it for the all important CLOSING time! That is a really NICE option on Yahoo. So, I can list in the morning and have it end in the evening.
I still like being able to schedule with AW though. Oh well. Que sara!
I have just started getting chummy with Auction Tamer and that is really helping with the auction management. I used Ebud for a long time on Ebay, but when they decided to make us pay a monthly fee to use it, I started searching for something else that would work with other sites as well. AT and I are starting to play well together--hey, there was a certain period of learning with Ebud too.
