stonecold613
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posted on September 25, 2003 08:08:31 PM new
This option allows you to specify the future start time of your auction (up to 30 days in advance). Most auctions start immediately when they are submitted, but if you choose this option your auction will start on the future date and time specified. You will be charged the listing fee when the auction is submitted, even if you cancel the auction before it begins.
This should help Yahoo slowly but surely. And best of all, no extra charge unlike feebay.
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Blairwitch
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posted on September 26, 2003 09:24:53 AM new
What they need now is a 90 day free listing period to build up inventory. Once things get going they can go back to charging a nickel.
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AuctionAce
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posted on September 26, 2003 01:49:27 PM new
Heck, it's only nickle a month in an ebay store. Why waste 30 cents a month list an item with a starting price of under $9.99 for a month when for a nickle you can list an item for an entire month on an ebay store and the starting price is no factor.
Yahoo is totally dead, bid-wise and pagehit-wise.
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justmypostingid
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posted on September 26, 2003 06:48:00 PM new
I feel that yahoo auctions are dead as long as the only thing seen on the yahoo.com page is the small auctions text link.
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Blairwitch
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posted on September 26, 2003 07:14:02 PM new
1/09/03 New and Improved Submit Page
3/25/03 Showcase option added to Bulk Loader
6/27/03 Save Your Favorites
6/27/03 Lowering Start Price on Live Auctions
6/27/03 Blacklisting Sellers
6/27/03 Save Submit Preferences
9/02/03 Searching and Browsing enhancement
9/26/03 Future Start Time
Here are some of the improvements yahoo put into place this year. Now why does a site with only 200,000 listings go to so much bother? I dont know if they are planning on promoting the auctions in the future or what could be going on.
Well at least they have the auctions on the new shopping page
http://shopping.yahoo.com
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AuctionAce
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posted on September 26, 2003 07:19:09 PM new
Every place that I've ever worked the brass seem to have a 'make money on this project in x amount of time or it's history' attitude. Yahoo must be lenient with their auctions showing revenue progress. We're about due for another Yahoo FLD. 
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Blairwitch
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posted on September 27, 2003 07:14:26 PM new
The only thing they can do is put the listings back to free for an extended time and charge the same FVF as ebay. Once the listings go back up to 3 million, and they would quite quickly, they could keep the FVF the same, and charge the nickel again, OR they could charge the nickel for the BIN, etc and leave listings free. They should have done it the last time and goofed.
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stonecold613
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posted on September 29, 2003 08:48:00 PM new
Why would they want to go backwards. The nickle listing fees work. It keeps the crap that auctionace is trying to put there. I say, keep auctionace's lousy items at bidville and Ioffer. For me with items that actually have value, sales are brisk mostly because my buyers don't have to sift through the worthless sports cards and year books.
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replaymedia
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posted on September 29, 2003 09:11:55 PM new
I have no problem at all with the nickel listing fee. I agree it keeps out the junk while still being cheap enough to use.
The problem is the not the lack of sellers or items, the problem is the lack of buyers!
They simply need to ADVERTISE more.
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Replay Media
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AuctionAce
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posted on September 29, 2003 11:22:05 PM new
Almost zero pagehits on most items. I refuse to waste a nickel. Why don't they shoot that horse?
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Blairwitch
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posted on September 30, 2003 11:46:31 AM new
Stonecold I respect your views trust me I dont want yahoo to become another bidville, BUT to "jumpstart" the site they must have an extended period of time to build the listing and bidder base again. After the extended free listings put the nickel back into place, and the junk will be gone, but you are left with a larger bidder base and more product. Had they put the current fee structure into effect from the start things would be better.
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AuctionAce
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posted on September 30, 2003 07:53:36 PM new
I think Yahoo is beyond hope now. Even free listings might not draw any sellers or buyers. The few buyers there must be people that think ebay is too complex or something.
Ebay has grown way too strong to even have a powerhouse like Yahoo become any kind of a factor.
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stonecold613
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posted on September 30, 2003 09:09:23 PM new
Hey auctionloser,
Go back into your hole. Since you don't have a clue to what you are talking about ever, it would be better if you simply quit posting.
Replay,
Sorry to hear that your sales are down at Yahoo, although my guess is you don't have any items there. My sales are better then when the listings were free. Simply put, the quality item buyers no longer have to sift through junk to find items they are looking for.
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