June 6, 2005

Yahoo Auctions to Drop Listing Fees in U.S.

AuctionsBytes has good background on the announcement here.
(note: they plan to drop the listing fees, not the closing fees)

let's see...
2001: Yahoo charges listing fees to "improve the quality"
2005: Yahoo drops the listing fee to ______ the quality?

What changed between then and now?

eBay developments, of course. What else?

* They are certainly making more money from paid search...
* But do they have more powerful tools to manage quality?

They lost a ton of listings in 2001 (see AuctionBytes).
How much attention is still up for grabs in 2005?

Yahoo Auctions to Drop Listing Fees in U.S.
Posted by Sean O'Rourke on June 6, 2005 at 7:50 AM
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