Sketchy details on auctionbytes

Auctionbytes Article - Yahoo Free Listing

goldreaper.rr wrote (View Post): › Interesting article Beckem. However, it is like car insurance we all watch it go up! But do we ever see it come down! Guess, I shall believe it when I see it. How about you????

Kinda of strange that no date was announced. I just tried to relist an
unsold item and it still show 35 cent listing fee.

All I can say is THANK GOD, if its true.

I will also predict that once again, the vast majority of eBay sellers
will not take advantage of this opportunity to break eBay's stranglehold
on them. Ebay's shills are already spewing out their anti-Yahoo rhetoric.
See alt.marketing.online.ebay

goldreaper.rr wrote (View Post): › Yes! I have sat and relisted and I am still being charged I believe that the Die-hard eBayer would stay there, if the inital fee was 5.00 bucks an auction, just to say "they list on eBay!" Sometimes, it takes awhile for "Common sense" to kick in! When my profit margin started to dwindle, it didn't take long for me!!!! eBay can afford to put out the Rhetoric and downplay any article that any other Auction site puts in print! However, it takes a smart business person, to read between the lines!

Looks like in kicked in at midnight ahead of Yahoo's big announcement.
NO LISTING FEES. NO Final Value Fees.

Its been a long 4 years of frustation. Hopefully Yahoo will leave it alone
this time and we can look forward to years of a REAL alternative to eBay.

goldreaper.rr wrote (View Post): › There is an announcement on the front auction page. No listing or final value fees!!!!!

I'm usually in bed and sound asleep long before 2:00 A.M. but listing
all this stuff on Yahoo again, reminds me of the good times.

I'm sure there will be a lot of interesting reading in the next few months.
I don't believe sites like iOffer or Bidville will survive unless they drop
their fees. Even without the fees they will be struggling to hang on.

I'm more interested in what will happen with eBay stores. $15/month,
3 cent listing fees, and 8% final value fees sounds a little steep when you have the alternative of listing thousand of items for free on Yahoo.

Wow that is great

This is great! Dont' know if you guys saw it, but yesterday I posted on beckem's other thread about uniting, suggesting yahoo would be a good choice if they would just listen to us! This was before I even heard this news! How coincidental! lol Well, maybe it's not coincidental.

A couple of months ago I did try to get connected with yahoo through a media contact and got no response. I had put a lot of suggestions in the email and I also had emailed their CS and called them with these same suggestions. I told them what the sellers were looking for and told them they had such advertising potential at their finger tips! I thought they blew me off, and they probably did! But, hey ya never know! I was pretty shocked a couple of weeks ago when I saw they had made some changes to their look. I thought that was major progress. Now this!

Maybe it would do some good if we all posted this news to any yahoo groups we belong to.

so yahoo is completely free? no FVF's?

If so, that's great!!!!

FREE listing isn't the answer though folks, there are lots of free listing option sites.

Buyer driven search results are key and unless a site spends capital to tweak and garner their share of search engine results (ebay is heading in that direction with their latest acquisition), buyers will go where led.

Forget name recognition of a site, forget free listing for seller benefit. A site that is not placing well in search engine results to drive people to their listings loses more and more market share to those who are successful in doing so. The buyer is key, the sellers are only on a site that can drive buyers to them. Ebay will do this well........but who else is ready to move from attracting sellers to spending all their time attracting buyers? Doesn't seem to be many.

Seller benefits, while important, are second to driving buyers to any site. And most here know that all too well. With all the sites out there, those that give you FREE LISTINGS have not proven worthy in the sell through rate.

It's hard for sellers to think like buyers, but that's what is going to make any site successful, appealing to the buyer is the new direction where marketing has to weigh heavy in what is spent by a site to survive.

Search engine results will control the future online auction markets, a site not willing or able to use that tool to bubble their listings to the top pages will stagnate and wither away.

AM wrote (View Post): › This is great! Dont' know if you guys saw it, but yesterday I posted on beckem's other thread about uniting, suggesting yahoo would be a good choice if they would just listen to us! This was before I even heard this news! How coincidental! lol Well, maybe it's not coincidental. A couple of months ago I did try to get connected with yahoo through a media contact and got no response. I had put a lot of suggestions in the email and I also had emailed their CS and called them with these same suggestions. I told them what the sellers were looking for and told them they had such advertising potential at their finger tips! I thought they blew me off, and they probably did! But, hey ya never know! I was pretty shocked a couple of weeks ago when I saw they had made some changes to their look. I thought that was major progress. Now this! Maybe it would do some good if we all posted this news to any yahoo groups we belong to.

Really funny was that I was reading your post when I clicked on
auctionbytes and saw the article about Yahoo dropping their fees.
I couldn't believe it.

Cool....will have to check it out.


Free listings may not bring buyers...oops...I'm a buyer....a BIG buyer. So I can't say that is completely true.

Free listings will plump up the inventory. And Sellers marketing will bring in the buyers. Yahoo has the money to do it. Now let's see if it will or if it goes the way of the O!!