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No Body wrote: On 14 Nov 2005 13:01:06 -0800, wrote: I don't buy from eBay. Try Yahoo Auctions. No listing fees. No FVF fees. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ Finally....someone who agrees with me!!!! Can someone explain to me why everyone is insisting on paying for a service that is FREE on Yahoo? If your answer is "they get more traffic" isn't that chicken and egg syndrome? Yahoo's service is there ....personally I find it a lot easier to navigate so I will use it. I don't like the fact that EBay seems to have a monopoly on "Internet Auctions" because it is just wrong. I think the fees they charge are ridiculous. I don't understand why everybody seems to want to pay for this service. Did you you know that the "insertion fee" for 1 item with a starting or reserve price of under...get this UNDER one dollar......thats .99cents and lower.... is .30cents. Can you believe it thirty cents goes to EBAY whether or NOT you sell your item. ADD it up and consider all the "thirty cents" the have gotten from us folks. Why don't we switch to the guys who will let us list and buy for free in a secure Paypal environment? I am having trouble wrapping my head around this one. We are just collectors trying to fund our passions and yet we fork out our money to the rich folks who take the shirts off our back. Thanks for letting me vent. "Chicken and egg syndrome" Thats the expression I was trying to think of. Buyers go where the items are listed. List on eBay and eBay will continue to raise their fees. List on Yahoo. NO MORE FEES. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ |
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I would rather pay a fee then waste time on Yahoo where the volume of
sales is very low. |
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Are you a paid shill for Yahoo? This
message is showing up in a number of usenet newsgroups. |
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stonej wrote: Are you a paid shill for Yahoo? This message is showing up in a number of usenet newsgroups. Are you a paid shill for eBay ? I'm an unpaid shill for SELLERS (regardless of where you list). Most eBay sellers are busting their butts to make minimum wage or less. If eBay Sellers would take the time to move just half of their listings to Yahoo, eBay's stranglehold on auctions would come to an abrupt end. Ebay would be bending over backwards and cutting fees to compete for your listings. Any profits loss from moving some of your items to Yahoo would be regained many times over once eBay started reducing their fees. http://auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/ |
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I think you are wasting your time trying to promote Yahoo. Most people
gave up on them years ago. |
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stonej wrote: I think you are wasting your time trying to promote Yahoo. Most people gave up on them years ago. I think we are wasting our money paying eBay's fees when we could all be listing on Yahoo for free. If eBay sellers could look past the next 3 to 7 days and move all or part of their listings to Yahoo, the buyers would follow within days, we would be listing for free, and eBay would be in a panic, slashing their fees. |
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If eBay sellers could look past the next 3 to 7 days and move all or
part of their listings to Yahoo, the buyers would follow within days, we would be listing for free, and eBay would be in a panic, slashing their fees. Probem is that buyers won't follow sellers to Yahoo, sellers get discouraged and move back to Ebay in a hurry. Sellers want fast turnover of inventory, they are in the business to make money, not sit on their inventory with Yahoo doing nothing. |
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stonej wrote: If eBay sellers could look past the next 3 to 7 days and move all or part of their listings to Yahoo, the buyers would follow within days, we would be listing for free, and eBay would be in a panic, slashing their fees. Probem is that buyers won't follow sellers to Yahoo, sellers get discouraged and move back to Ebay in a hurry. Sellers want fast turnover of inventory, they are in the business to make money, not sit on their inventory with Yahoo doing nothing. Its a short term effort and small sacrifice for a HUGE pay off. Ebay makes billions off sellers and continues to raise our fees. I wish you well with your eBay sales. I believe you would benefit more if you were paying less fees for listings that cost eBay pennies to host. Listing on eBay for a fast turnover is one thing. Arguing against any effort to break the eBay monopoly is not in your best interests as a seller. |
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