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Hi, I sell on Yahoo occasionally but as has been mentioned several times it is less than active. Is anyone out there still selling on Yahoo? How are things going?
My mom still does ok on Yahoo but she is the only person I know who seems to have this experience. I don't mind slow but steady sales...I just don't want to deal with a vast sucking vacuum.
Thanks,
SageMoon_Cottage
http://www.sagemoon-cottage.com
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I still sell on Yahoo. It's most efficient on stuff that has an acceptable sell price maybe $5-$10 IMO, where you can list and relist at 5c per try fee. Some areas there are so dead even that advantage won't save you; a few categories have enough regulars watching for specialty items that you can sell more expensive starts, too. Look over the "closed auctions" lists for other sellers listing in categories you'd use, compare to how many listings they have to run to get their sales, and research how the prices compare to those on eBay. Sometimes doing their featuring helps. I never have vaguely considered their gimmick fees for icons and bold and such, nor their "special 99c start" promotions or whatever.
It's very rare that there's a competitive auction running prices upwards. (Possibly valuable uncommon oddities still belong on eBay.) Over the summer was dead, the vast majority of their categories are dead, but you might get lucky, especially if you have any regular eBay buyers you could refer to your new listings.
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I sell low dollar items for the most part so will try some listing there. I appreciate your insights!
Cheers,
ardee-ann
http://www.sagemoon-cottage.com
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No sadly I'm not. The buyers just aren't there. Found it was a big waste of time on the FLD's too, so I don't bother even when they have them. Even if I got a bid it was only the one bid no outbidding and often times they would be a NPB on what few auctions had a bid.
Wished it was different...but it is what it is...so it's pay ebaY and at least have results. My 'handling' covers the fees so it's like having my old Yahoo back!
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Yes I am - I'll be keeping my handmade items listed there pretty much all the time as long as sales continue to pan out.... I will probably cut back to 2 of the 3 dolls I sew for since I haven't sold much for the 3rd...
I'll even try another batch of trading cards perhaps..
With the listing fee increases at eBay - I wanna sell as much as I can elsewhere as possible.
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I list at many different sites : My Ebay Storefront and My Ioffer Storefront
Or perhaps you'd prefer to visit SYI Listings and finally My Website
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Sure people are still selling on Yahoo. But no one is buying.
AlanaJ
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/alanaj
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I'll tell my Yahoo buyers they're figments of my imagination then. http://community.here.com/infopop/em...icon_smile.gif
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I list at many different sites : My Ebay Storefront and My Ioffer Storefront
Or perhaps you'd prefer to visit SYI Listings and finally My Website
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Katiyana - that's great you're doing well on Yahoo. You are one of the exceptions. I used to do very well on Yahoo too before they starting charging. Then I went back to ebay - if I am going to pay fees, I want to be where the bidders are.
AlanaJ
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Katiyana, your philosophy is similar to mine...have listings in more than one place...then you are not dependent on one market. I like the way sales do on eBay a lot of the time but sometimes eBay glitches and changes make life difficult. So, I sell on other venues. I have been pleased with my sales on Yahoo since the last FLD. I have continued to list there and am doing fairly well...all things considered! At least my fees are cheaper...
BTW, there is a big difference in listing and selling...my initial question was if anyone was selling on Yahoo...I am glad to find out that some other sellers besides my mom are finding buyers. I am happy to say that I am not just listing on Yahoo...I am selling...
Hopefully, with the changes on eBay more sellers will return to Yahoo and the buyers will follow. If we advertise that we are there...the buyers WILL follow!
Cheers,
Ardee-ann
http://www.sagemoon-cottage.com
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I just did a bit of research on searching, trying to find how random buyers might blunder onto a Yahoo listing from completely outside the Yahoo system. Using Google, it appears that it catches and will display Yahoo listings on the basis of keywords in the titles of SOME featured ads. I have had some placed in categories that would kick upwards into the general higher categories, like say as a made-up example, if you feature a civil war gun under "Antique Firearms" it will appear right at the top of the overall "Antiques" featured list, but if you listed it in the "Civil War" grouping of "Militaria" under Antiques, and featured it, the listing would be buried multiple pages deep in the Antiques-featured list. It looks like some of the "buried" ones get picked up by Google, but some don't.
Apparently the keywords that are searchable by Google are only the ones in the titles. I tried discreet phrases in quotes like "old 1862 widget" and could get listings I'd featured to appear on Google, but not unfeatured ones, or featured ones that had been in obscure areas in the system.
However, on featured listings of mine that I could get to appear on Google, IF I clicked on the *cached* form of the listing it would go to an out-of-date page of featured listings then if the listing itself were clicked on, AND if I'd done a relist (whether featured or not), the Googler would be on an active auction listing on which they could bid. Of course, they'd also have live links where they could click the seller's closed and active listings, too.
I could NOT get discreet phrases to be found if they were in the body of the listings, only the titles, and only if featured.
SO. If you sell items for which you can include precise description terms in the titles, then afford to feature them (I couldn't tell whether a couple days would do it, or whether it would take a week or so to be safe), you just might catch a surprising number of net surfers using Google.
I certainly plan to wargame out my listing titles and featuring decisions a little more carefully now, anyway.