In article , "Nick Knight"
wrote:

In , on 02/01/2008
at 12:48 AM, Ken Barr said:

Yahoo!Auctions was halfway sorta decent for a while, but then
they went "free" and got deluged with grossly overprice crap
basically "parked" on their site ... and with continuous "free"

Ah ha. Now THIS is good stuff. I'll have to revise my idea that "free is
ideal". I should have realized this issue with "free" myself, but thanks
for the thoughts. I remember than my EX would always want to take the kids
to functions that were advertised as "free". And 15 billion other kids
w/parents would end up being there. I finally demanded that we go on days
you have to pay, as I'd rather not have to pay by fighting the crowds.

I can see that unlimitted free listings would be Bad. Excellent. I'll
think a bit more. I'll look over your other comments as the evening
progresses, too. Thanks for the reply.

If you want to see the "poster child" for the absolute
worthlessness of free listing sites, check out

http://lowcostcoingradingservice.ecrater.com/

Current number of items - 10,027
Items sold last month - 6

6,327 of the listings are for coins:
http://lowcostcoingradingservice.ecr....php?cid=57837

The hunnert-en-fiddy items *I* have listed in the Coins category
are TOTALLY lost in the weeds, get between zero and three hits
every month, and NOTHING has sold since last November ... (I'd
delete them off the site, but that would take some effort, so it's
quite a bit easier to just let them sit there and stagnate ...).

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