stonecold613
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posted on June 15, 2005 07:54:52 PM new
This thread is to find out if anyone is actually selling anything. Anyone listing on Yahoo, if you would post your bids and then actual sales at Yahoo. I am curious to see if the Free listing thing is simply too late in the coming.
I will start. I have one completed sale since but it was originally a listing that the listing fee was paid. The bid came after the policy change to free listings.
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bluroks
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posted on June 16, 2005 09:25:44 AM new
So far, total strike out.
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replaymedia
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posted on June 16, 2005 09:50:00 AM new
I only got around to listing stuff there around Tuesday, and no luck yet...No Buy-it-nows yet, and no bids.
But I won't comment on success until my first listings end. But I am not encouraged so far.
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blairwitch
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posted on June 16, 2005 11:44:28 AM new
It will take time to rebuild the site, but so far the listings are going up quickly, which is the first step to recovery. Once the listings come up to about a million, I expect them to advertise it better. There is no use doing it now with listings still low. Also remember many ebay sellers have no clue...yet, but that will change by word of mouth. When I sold alot on yahoo all my ebay winners were given a link to my yahoo auction booth.......use ebay like they used us. In a few months yahoo will be back.
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dorrie
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posted on June 17, 2005 09:14:22 AM new
I just sold my first item on Yahoo since the free listings. The buy has contacted me and there is a bid on another one of my items. It never hurts to try-it's free!
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sthoemke
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posted on June 17, 2005 05:50:23 PM new
I sold 1 item. It will take time for bidders to come back.
Uploading with .csv files makes listing easy, so it is no problem to relist items.
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dorrie
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posted on June 17, 2005 06:44:03 PM new
Can you explain what .cvs files are? Thanks
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replaymedia
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posted on June 17, 2005 08:44:37 PM new
csv files are Comma Seperated Files. These are basically spreadsheets of your inventory.
To use them,. go to MY AUCTIONS, then down on the left is an option USE BULK LOADER. The instructions from that point are pretty straightforward.
It might be a lot of work, depending on how your inventory is currently set up, or it might not.
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MAH645
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posted on June 18, 2005 05:50:17 PM new
I haven't yet,but I think it will take time to get the buyers back. I don't mind listing when it isn't costing me anything and hopefully it will pay off in time. The traffic isn't all that great on E-Bay right now either.
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jwpc
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posted on June 24, 2005 09:39:55 AM new
Sales across the board are slow at the moment. We have multiple web sites, and have stat charts, which show sales for each month of the year for the last four years, and June has always been one of our slowest months.
Presently, we are not posting on eBay at all – fees are too high to justify the gamble of selling an item.
We too have gone back to the FREE Yahoo, which just like it was in the past, it takes considerably longer to sell an item, but if you have enough auctions posted, you can do fine, and risk nothing.
THE LAST YEAR we used Yahoo before they started charging a fee we sold more on Yahoo than we ever had on eBay, and at that time I was an eBay Power Seller! We are going to put our efforts into Yahoo again. We also use a niche auction, with a FVF only, and we keep that one loaded. At least when posting on either of these sites, only my time is at risk, if the item doesn’t sell, it is automatically relisted, and IF such follows as it did 3 years ago, in time everything sells, it is just MUCH slower than eBay – BUT it is much, much cheaper, and basically risk free.
We will be using Yahoo through the summer. We will keep our eBay store open, but probably not post on eBay again until the fall buying season.
TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, YES WE HAVE SOLD ON YAHOO SINCE IT BECAME FREE - In fact we hadn't posted on Yahoo for the 3 years it had a posting charge.
If they keep it like it is now I can see it slowly growing again, and in time producing as it did 3 years ago.
~"It does not matter what I think, it does not matter what you think. The only thing which matters is: What is the TRUTH!"~
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gina50
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posted on June 24, 2005 12:33:08 PM new
I'm trying to list stuff on yahoo but for some reason can't find the exact place to add my credit card.
Can someone tell me exactly where to do that, pleeeeeeeeeeeease.
Thanks in advance
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sv9153
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posted on June 26, 2005 01:51:17 PM new
ive had some luck with stuff that cant be listed on ebay-mainly bbguns/pellet guns
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sthoemke
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posted on June 27, 2005 08:08:36 PM new
"I'm trying to list stuff on yahoo but for some reason can't find the exact place to add my credit card.
Can someone tell me exactly where to do that, pleeeeeeeeeeeease. "
The day before the Yahoo Auctions went free, I listed an item (first time in a while), and had to give my CC #. When I tried to list the item, it automatically took me to a secure webpage to enter the CC.
Maybe they changed the process since there are no longer fees.
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stonecold613
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posted on June 29, 2005 07:23:50 AM new
It still works the same. I just helped a friend start a new account and it will automatically take you to the pages that you need.
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bluroks
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posted on June 29, 2005 10:59:50 AM new
Sold a item this morning!! Finally!! And was sitting in my Ebay store for 6 months! Really thinking about closing my Ebay store and just run auctions on Ebay and fill up Yahoo with all of my Ebay store items!
Nice profit too and customer paid within ten minutes!
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blairwitch
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posted on June 29, 2005 01:05:00 PM new
Thats what I did when yahoo was free years ago. List your best on eBay, and advertise the heck out of your yahoo auctions. Its easy money with little effort.
BTW, the listings are really jumping up......I have been watching the DVD selection and it has so far tripled.....nice selection too.
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parklane64
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posted on June 29, 2005 05:46:10 PM new
They made me lose interest when they required Yahoo Wallet. And the spam in my Yahoo mailbox is, well, impressive.
Thanks, but no thanks.
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Greengate
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posted on July 1, 2005 02:02:36 AM new
I jumped at the free listing since I dropped Ebay a few months ago after a $1000. listing fee charge. Just didn't like the charges on Ebay.
After two attempts with 50 auctions I reviewed the listings and I had 2, that's (two) views only on all those auctions.
I love Yahoo and have two websites hosted by them so I hope they can figure out how to get customers to them. Ebay sales really slowed this past year, people just don't seem to be shopping like they have in the past.
Also I listed directly with Yahoo Manager and its a slow process to relist unless someone knows of a way to relist in a bulk way?
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stonecold613
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posted on July 1, 2005 10:43:47 AM new
Also I listed directly with Yahoo Manager and its a slow process to relist
Your kidding right? Relisting is simple and quick. Go to your unsold page(s), click the relist button, it opens the main listing page. Then scroll down to the bottom unless you are making changes, click the review button, it takes you to the preview page. Then click the list auction button and it is done. It takes about 30 seconds and I have dial up.
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WestportAntiques56
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posted on July 7, 2005 04:20:05 PM new
Yes, a few items of Nippon. However, people out there are not going to know its free unless us sellers spread the word!
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Salgal48
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posted on July 11, 2005 06:15:58 PM new
Nothing yet but I just started a month ago. Lots of problems with the site, the #1 being you can't find your item through Yahoo Shopping search engine.
Just try it. Keyword your item and see if it shows up in Yahoo Shopping. Aint happening. Because they give favors to those that pay, including the Ebay & Amazon sites.
Plus the site needs revising.
http://lwright.biz/index.html
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Salgal48
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posted on July 11, 2005 06:53:44 PM new
Just checked some items and no bids! None for laptops, for the laptop batteries for the coins, nada, nothing. That's amazing. usually the coins and the computer stuff have at least one bid, not at Yahoo.
http://lwright.biz/index.html
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katiyana
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posted on July 13, 2005 09:27:30 AM new
9 sales in the past 2 days to 3 buyers.
No payments yet for them though.
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jake
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posted on July 13, 2005 12:56:08 PM new
Sold a few things...looks like less than half are going to pay.
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