Did you catch the part that says,"Fitzgerald told AW that sellers could pay to list their items as "Category Featured" auctions and not have these auctions count toward their total."???????????????
posted on September 3, 2000 11:32:43 AM new
That has been speculated by some, before this article.
Another point leading to more (unlikely answerable at this time) questions.
1) Would have to click the Feature function at the time of submission and for the length of the run? Most people I know like to do an ad for 10 days but save fees by only featuring for the last 2-4 days if pageviews/bids are unsatisfactory.
2)If your counter is already down to 0 wouldn't you get an error clicking "submit item"?
3) If you got down to 0, then elected to add featured to auctions in progress would you get their ad points added back enabling you to run more non-featured?
posted on September 3, 2000 11:33:50 AM new
Good questions. I guess someone who's already at 0 will have to feature one they already have listed and let us know. Any volunteers???
[ edited by granee on Sep 3, 2000 11:35 AM ]
posted on September 3, 2000 11:37:47 AM new
Dmercer
If I didn't type so slow I'd have beat you to the punch.
Granee
I tried to feature one at the time of submission the other day but kept getting password errors from Yahoo wallet. I went ahead and started the ad unfeatured, then added that option later that same day when I got the PW mess straightened out. I did not get a point back.
posted on September 3, 2000 12:49:41 PM new
Ok, they want us to use "featured". Ok, no problem. But they won't let us pay for the "featured" auctions with their OWN PayDirect Service?
posted on September 3, 2000 02:20:35 PM new
I'm overjoyed to read this news as I was planning to feature more auctions anyway!
But Grapey has a good point- bummer that we can't pay through PAyDirect. MAybe if they get enough emails from those of us who want to be able to, they'll consider changing. I for one do plan to send a polite "pretty please consider it" email their way.
posted on September 3, 2000 03:16:45 PM new
"IS THIS ALL ABOUT MONEY????????????? "
Granee, you knew the answer to that! In one way or another, everything comes down to that.
Yahoo has been using the auction sellers to help build their site, in return providing a free venue. Looks like they've decided to see if the auctions can't be tapped for some additional revenue.
In all fairness, I routinely see "auctions"
directing a bidder offsite, or offerring no product, or the / exact same brand new / item repeated in a dozen categories, despite the rules against same. Maybe they are just feeling a little put upon.
This should not be taken as a swipe at 98% of you sellers who have always been fantastic in what you do. (I'm in a good mood - I got a real nice box of toys yesterday. Well packed, and clean, too)
Well most things are about money for sure yahoo didnt start out as about money it is one of the oldest and most popular directorys on the net haveing been around as I understand it since the very early 70s long before netscape long before internet marketing when you got to this info with your telnet program.
it was started by students at a college and suported by the the college.was made as a tool to reasearch the vast amount of data in the schools main frame.
over time it conected from school to school and started to become more popular and fast way to search the vast amount information in large data bases the the archie request that was a slow but popular way to search these data bases.Arche basical was an email request that went out and was past adminatrator to adminatrator till one or more was reached with the info you were looking for they would send back directions of how to telnet into the info and where it was located in there unix based system.
if anyone out there has ever used an arche to search the web take my word for it it is a very slow process I sent an arche request for info in 1976 and I still have not received a reply I have given up hope that I will
need less to say the term paper I was writeing I needed my info for was completed years ago.
anyhow just goes to show how far things have progressed in a short time, even though it in no way anwser the question at all
posted on September 3, 2000 05:50:00 PM new
Well, now for the bad news...IT'S ANOTHER HOAX (or just another flat out lie). I just tested this by featuring an item during the listing process...AND IT STILL DEDUCTED IT FROM MY LIMIT! Just thought I'd let ya'll know.
posted on September 4, 2000 09:34:04 PM new
dman3,
OK, Yahoo didn't start out as being about money, but your facts get a little blurry from that point...
Yahoo was started in 1994 by David Filo and Jerry Yang, two Stanford students, as a way to organize their favorite web sites.
The system that was devised as a research tool to access data was the World Wide Web, which was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
Archie, which was invented in 1990, is a service used to search FTP sites, and it's still around. While it does require administrators to register their site, they do not have to respond to individual inquiries.
