posted on November 23, 2002 09:34:40 PM new
Is anyone else having low sales on Yahoo? My sales have dropped to nil the past month so I am not listing for awhile. I think it did this last year, too. I sell mostly books and collectibles.
posted on November 24, 2002 12:12:16 PM new
I've seen quite a drop too. I didn't sell here at this time last year so I don't have prior years to compare it to.
As for the site renovation, I guess I hadn't noticed anything dramatic enough that it would reduce sales. What all was changed?
posted on November 24, 2002 09:10:51 PM new
My sales were great until ebay had there free listing day. There was some kind of phenomenon that pulled all of the Yahoo bidders to ebay for the event. I just today started getting bids again at Yahoo. First since the FLD. I hope that sales get back to the pre FLD level soon.
posted on November 24, 2002 10:56:25 PM new
It wasn't a real FLD at ebay. Just 10 cents off the 30 cents listing fee if an item were listed at under a buck w/ no reserve. I moved 150 of my 'not sold' items off Yahoo and put them on ebay for the sale. Sold over 120 of the 150 and many went for fairly high prices. These same items had been listed over and over at Yahoo with a bid. I'm hooked, the 30 cent fee is too bad as long as you can move stuff.
posted on November 27, 2002 07:30:07 PM new
robertsmithson,
You missed the bus somewhere. Halloween night absolutey was a free listing day. It was in the fixed price venue. List any item for any price for free. The promotion you are talking about was last week and was a complete joke. 20 cents for a listing of no more than 99 cents. Over 20% goes right to ebay. Anyway, back to the FLD. I listed well over 200 auctions that night for Zero dollars. Zero cents. That is $0.00. Turns out it was one of the more successful FLD's that ebay has had in a couple of years too. Did bidders leave Yahoo to join in the FLD festivities. I personally have no idea, but it does appear that way. Give it a little more time and those people will be back and seem to be coming back already, ever so slowly.
posted on November 27, 2002 10:07:16 PM new
I didn't realize that you were talking about a promotion that is almost a month old. I listed several auctions on that promotion. The best part was the quantity didn't matter so I was able to have a lot of items in each auction and I made more off-site sales than on-site sales and got some regular off-site buyers out of the deal.
The other ebay sale was a great deal too. If you listed a hundred items that was $10 less then the usual $20. I listed $2 items on Yahoo that would not sell due to a total lack of bidder traffic and sold most of them with an average $4-$5 with an additional 50 cents profit on shipping on each to pay all fees on sold and un-sold items. From now on I'm selling low value items on ebay with a starting bid under 99 cents with no reserve. The 30 cent fee is easily made up with the small extra shipping I charge ( still much less than almost all my competitors ). I wasted too many nickles on Yahoo and almost always ( 99.9% ) got just the start bid when a rare sale was made while at ebay many of the $2 Yahoo items hit $10-$14. Yahoo is a complete waste of listing fee money. Yahoo has to drop the listing fees completely to be any kind of a player in the online auction world.
