posted on December 14, 2000 08:53:41 AM new
Auction is in 'closed' and there is a 'resubmit'
tab but when I used it, it came up "ERROR". Can I set up a new auction with all the same info or will Yahoo consider that a resubmit?
Goingslow
posted on December 14, 2000 10:21:23 AM new
hi goingslow - this sounds like a glitch to me. There is no limit on re-submits unless this is something new today. Try again in a hour or so and it will probably go right through.
posted on December 14, 2000 12:09:53 PM new
If it's not a glitch, like VM said. You may have used up your monthly allotment. But I doubt that, as you seem to have just got going on Yahoo.
One thing you will learn at Yahoo, everything doesn't work properly, all of the time. But at least it doesn't crash totally like feebay does. Just hiccups once in a while.
posted on December 14, 2000 05:26:04 PM new
Also, take a look at the auction and see if it has been "Network Watched". This will keep you from resubmitting, and it might be a glitch related to this.
And, oh, don't get me started on that one.
I'm looking for a programmer to automate my Yahoo business, and the stupid "No resubmits for NW's" is probably going to make the whole process cost prohibitive, especially since my competitors put at least 1 NW one EVERY ONE of my auctions.
posted on December 15, 2000 06:39:25 AM new
I agree, many of the NW auction cancellations are coming from an organized movement. Perhaps one competitor with a few extra ID’s, or a self appointed group - we get hit about once a month, and 4 to 6 of our auctions are closed, then they seem to go on to bother someone else -
BUT, I have been teaching my daughter how to sell on line, and she has now been hit by a NW – initially, she was in a total panic, and I told her to ignore the stupid thing - often when we are drastically under cutting other dealers we get hit all of the sudden with close downs by NW.
I told my daughter (who is trying to learn on line sales in lieu of taking an out side job and leaving her children in day care) that this was just part of the business and to learn to simply ignore it.
I just repost the auction OR repost it under my assistant's name, and go on.
BUT, regarding having an ERROR on a repost of an auction not involved in a NW - we have had that happen also, and if after a couple of attempts and still getting the glitch, I just post it as a new auction.
Whether or not it counts against our total doesn’t really matter to me, we could never run out of available auctions to post, they seem to go up every month.
Reporting a glitch to Yahoo, is like whistling in the wind!
posted on December 15, 2000 11:11:25 AM new
Let's please remember that a lot of the NW hits are justified. I'm really sick of the spam and items obviously in the wrong categories when I'm browsing a category. IMHO everyone's stuff would sell better if we clean Yahoo up. I'm talking about sellers who have 20 of the same thing listed or sellers who don't care if their items are in the right categories or not. Melanie
"If man were to be crossed with a cat, it would greatly improve the man, but deteriorate the cat." Mark Twain
"- we get hit about once a month, and 4 to 6 of our auctions are closed, then they seem to go on to bother someone else -"
If Y! is closing your auctions, you may want to take a closer look at them. They close auctions they feel are in violation of their TOS and/or guidelines. Decisions to close are made by a real person in CC, not a robot.
When a person from CC reviews complaints, whether by NW, or e-mail form submission. Should they find no merit to those complaints, the auction in question will not be closed, and the complaint is ignored.
posted on December 15, 2000 12:13:44 PM newHow do you know that this is being done by a competitor? Could be an old bidder, just being weasely, couldn't it?
Actually, I don't know that it's a competitor, but I'm quite sure it is one person or one group doing this to all of my auctions.
The reason is that they are ALL NW'd for "Looks like spam" when nothing could be further from the truth. Ironically, most of my items don't fit neatly into any category and most could justly be NW'd for "Thinks it belongs in a different category." But this rarely happens.
Yet every one of my auctions gets the "Looks like spam." And almost always just one. Just enough to keep me from easily relisting.
I have NEVER had even one auction reach the magic threshold of 3 or 4 or whatever it is that gets actual notice. But I have had 100's of auctions with 1 lone NW.
I assumed it is a competitor because I can't imagine why anyone else would go to the trouble, but ya never know.
But the thing is, I'm really not against the whole NW concept in general. I just think it's ridiculous that you can't resubmit an auction with even 1 NW. It makes no sense. It invites abuse. And it hinders forward-thinkers from developing more efficient ways of doing business.
posted on December 15, 2000 04:12:21 PM new
amalgamated2000
Have you been prevented from relisting an NWed auction lately? I think they may have made a change to the blocking of falsely NWed auctions. At least they have as far as my auctions go. Last week I relisted one that was NWed for "spam" when it really wasn't. I relisted it fine, with no problem.
I just went in and closed early, an auction that was ending tonight anyway, which had no activity, (no challenge in todays market). Before closing it I had my son get on his computer and NW it for "spam". When I clicked on to resubmit, it was ready to go. I know you used to get a box that said "You can not relist an item that has been neighborhood watched". Or something similar to that.
That was the only complaint I ever had about the NW, is not being able to relist if falsely NWed. Now that appears to have been changed. For me it has anyway, maybe I am on another server, or no longer affected somehow? If it has been made site wide, then I don't care how many persons NW me. Because when a CC person gets it, (if it ever reaches 4), it will not be affected anyway. I can live with the false reports on my auctions, no matter what the reasoning some individual has. Because it no longer affects me in any way, and I hope all the rest of you. Charlie
they may have made a change to the blocking of falsely NWed auctions. At least they have as far as my auctions go. Last week I relisted one that was NWed for "spam" when it really wasn't. I relisted it fine, with no problem.