posted on August 29, 2003 08:20:08 PM new
If yahoo auctions had free listings there would be a mass exodus to that site. All this stuff that is not selling on ebay could easily be parked on yahoo free rather than parked on ebay with high fees. If yahoo wanted to get back in the game now is the time. All that you would say bad about yahoo could not over ride a free insertion fee schedule. Selling on ebay has become mostly unprofitable, something needs to be done to make it profitable. (Changing merchandise is not an option).
posted on August 29, 2003 08:31:39 PM new
"If yahoo auctions had free listings there would be a mass exodus to that site."
If wishes were horses, we'd all ride.
"All this stuff that is not selling on ebay could easily be parked on yahoo free rather than parked on ebay with high fees."
How does Yahoo make money with stuff that doesn't sell? At least with fees, someone has enough confidence to pay a nickel to list the "junk."
"If yahoo wanted to get back in the game now is the time."
They don't. They are focusing on their new "Froogle-Like" shopping engine.
"All that you would say bad about yahoo could not over ride a free insertion fee schedule."
I don't have a problem with their fees. I have a problem with their lack of bidders.
"Selling on ebay has become mostly unprofitable, something needs to be done to make it profitable."
It's very profitable if you are eBay.
"(Changing merchandise is not an option)."
Why? That's always an option for a flexible business. If the stuff you have isn't in demand, you better get different stuff!
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posted on August 29, 2003 09:13:36 PM new
I still have 2 grand in listing credits on Yahoo and I still don't list there. It isn't worth my time for free listings when nothing sells.
posted on August 29, 2003 09:30:51 PM new
I haven't listed on yahoo in over a year. I believe it still costs a nickel to list there, so it isn't price that is stopping me. It's lack of bidding. Hell, if I could sell even 50% of the time, it would be worth it for me to list it continually at a nickel a week. It is just a waste of time, the traffic is at ebay.
posted on August 29, 2003 09:34:33 PM new
I think I still have over $600 in listing credits on Yahoo. I almost forget Yahoo auctions even exist as I haven't been there for so long.
posted on August 29, 2003 11:07:45 PM new
I left Yahoo when they committed suicide 2 years ago – I’ve tested it a few times since, but it isn’t worth the time, or the 5 cents, or particularly the adjustments to my templates to sell nothing.
IF, Yahoo went back to free listings, and relists, and a FVF, I would consider moving good items back to Yahoo, but obviously they are intent on suicide, so be it.
I think enough thoughts, insights, ideas, and reality have been shared with Yahoo Auctions, and to totally no avail, so discussing what would happen IF Yahoo finally did something to benefit themselves and their auctions, or their sellers, is a moot discussion! Yahoo isn’t listening!
posted on August 30, 2003 10:47:50 AM new
What a rube!!! if it ain't selling on eBay then it ain't selling anywhere. What'cha got dbest a bunch of cell phone boosters?
posted on August 31, 2003 09:32:55 AM new
Yahoo has become a decent site to list items if you keep in mind it is a second tier site. I do list there. I generally keep about 60 items listed their. And no sports cards crap either.
It is all items that I gave a try at ebay and simply didn't get bids. I always try and get items that I have had success on ebay with, but ebay is no guarentee for a sale either. The best thing that happened at Yahoo was listing fees. What happened is it took all of the worthless sports cards and their deadbeats and drove them to bidville and ioffer. Now when a bidder looks for items, they don't have to go through endless listings of crap to find an item they may want. Don't miss understand what I am saying here. Ebay is the place to be, but when an item doesn't sell there on the second attempt, Yahoo does provide a good venue and much cheaper. I am experiencing about a 10% STR there with a deadbeat rate under 1% since listing fees where put in place. Heck, ebay's deadbeat rate is over 5%. I for one am glad Yahoo is there.
jwpc,
Get a life. You were kicked off of Yahoo for being a cheat and you still are bitter. One of the best moves they ever made.
posted on August 31, 2003 10:29:25 AM newAll this stuff that is not selling on ebay could easily be parked on yahoo free rather than parked on ebay with high fees.
I doubt yahoo is terribly excited about having the opportunity to have their site turned into a "can't sell it on eBay, park it here," site. They operated like that in the past. What did it get them?
These sites that offer the free listings gather the items that can't be sold on eBay, when buyers wander through those listings they leave and probably don't come back. eBay's attracts items that buyers want. eBay's in win/win situation. The third world auction sites get the items that can't atract buyers and they survive on the hope that tomorrow things will change.
