Yahoo Shutting Down Auctions - Second Service To DeadPool This Month

Still please give Yahoo! credit for dominating the auction space in Japan, not a small accomplishment.

Was just a matter of time before Yahoo threw in the towel.. Long overdue as far as I’m concerned because YA was definitely not performing well for some time

I have to say this is a good move from Yahoo. They did have a finger in nearly every online pie (yes they need to buy facebook to get into social networking), and some parts don’t compete. Auctions are one of those things that need massive critical mass to be useful for the seller (to find buyers) and the buyer (to find goods they’re actually after), and Yahoo have admitted they didn’t have that in the US and shut it down.

Congrats to them for that and dominating auctions in Japan

I think this is great news. How many large tech companies have redundant businesses? Hmm, who could they be? Overall, it leads to brand dilution, confused customers, and double your costs.

Too bad my company isn’t big enough to have that problem yet!

I don’t think bidz and ubid are true auctions (PtoP marketplace). I believe they are more like Amazon where they are the seller/retailer. I guess the only places left are craigslist (oops that’s owned by ebay) and ioffer.com

Yahoo has auctions?!?

That’s how its done. If you can’t win, run away, regroup and come back stronger. Good decision.

I heard they are actually just upgrading.

Its probably a good thing for Yahoo! Auctions to close. eBay does dominate the market and I doubt without a major incentive-based push that Yahoo! could change this. At least back in the day when I tried it a lot of the auctions where shady.

What can I do to be put in the deadpool?

lol

http://www.signaldev.com

Closing down Yahoo photos and re-directing users to Flickr makes sense to me. Its hard to justify owning two competing businesses and so now they should concentrate on Flickr and try and make it an even greater service.

# Dominic

May 4th, 2007 at 1:19 pm

YAHOO AUCTIONS CLOSING IN JUNE 2007

http://auctions…re?type=message

Someone BLINKED !

OH ! Just now hitting the wire services ? Didn’t get a lot of attention did it?

I was really struck by the way yahoo is treating its Yahoo Photos users. Look closely at the lame “Download” option they are giving to the users.
——————————————THE FOLLOWING IS FROM THEIR WEBSITE
What are my options if I want to keep my photos?

If you want to keep your photos (and we think most of you might), then you’ll need to choose from a few options by this fall. Don’t worry – there’s nothing you need to do now, but later this summer you’ll be receiving an email asking you to make a decision about your photos.

Move your photos: Select from among the photo sharing services offered (Flickr, Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish, and Photobucket) and they will move the photos for you. You’ll need to verify your Yahoo! account information and either create a new account or login with an existing account at that other service, but beyond that they’ll take care of the rest.

Download: Go to each photo and select “Download” above the photo. Unfortunately we do not technically support the ability to download more than one photo at a time, but for many of you it won’t take much time to download your favorites.

Not a huge surprise. In fact, I’d have expected this to be shutdown way back when. Yahoo has had that collaboration with eBay for a while now. I’d have thought this would have followed right after that.

Yahoo!/eBay/PayPal/Skype?

Since Yahoo! and eBay are fighting the mighty Google, perhaps a concentrated effort might help

Mike,

I think if you put something in place that will allow ebay users to post their feedback (their credibility) on other auction/etailers then eBay will face some real competition. The trick is to get the PowerSellers to start to do 25% of their business somewhere else. Then it reaches a point where the rest of the market will follow. eBay is just squeezing their main sellers (people who have made eBay their living!) to death. Everyone talks about Walmart being so cut-throat, ha!
Any thoughts Mike?

感觉好像在冬天，其实有也很好啊。

So they have this notice; …. this is hard -

- How do you expect this site not to be filled with scammers up till the last minute knowing - that Yahoo! is getting out of the business ?

- how do you be transparent / but not too transparent .. -RB

Pretty sure that in the UK Yahoo Auctions merged with eBay (c.2003/4?)

You have to give cudos to Yahoo for not forcing their users to Flickr but to allow them to move to competitors easily.

Yahoo Auction couldn’t of cared less about the Sellers and Buyers and trying to make it a booming Auction Site. Yahoo never tried to compete with Ebay!

Since Yahoo Auction went free the place was a mess! There was not one day that went by that Yahoo Auction didn’t have some kind of technical problem/issue. The Auctions customer service is/was a big fat F.

It also so happens that Yahoo Auction site was taken advantaged of by some companies who would place thousands of auctions listing for the sole purpose of Free Advertisement! Therefore it had taken the advertisement profit away from Yahoo Inc.

One company would even state on their auction listing that the item wasn’t in stock! and they had redirection links to there site. Those companies ruined it for the small seller and for the USA Yahoo Auction Site!

I sometimes wonder if anyone will ever be able to take on the mighty eBay.

Especially since there are a couple new eBay toolbars coming soon.

http://www.signaldev.com

Yahoo Auction maybe dead in the US and Canada but not here in Japan. Yahoo Auction Japan is very much alive and kicking. In fact, I prefer it over eBay. Japanese sellers and buyers are honest, not all but almost 95% that’s why there’s no eBay here in Japan.