Yahoo! US and Canada Auctions sites are closing on June 16, 2007!

[amy]

Yahoo Auctions' US site currently has over 1 million listings.  The advertising deal with eBay probably played a part in the decision to close the US site.

  Yahoo! US and Canada Auctions sites are retiring on June 16, 2007!

After careful consideration, we have decided to close down our Yahoo! US and Canada Auction sites to better serve our valued customers through other Yahoo! properties.

Please Note: This does not impact leading Yahoo! Auction sites in  Hong Kong  |  Singapore  |  Taiwan

The US and Canada Auctions sites will close June 16, 2007. We will continue to provide our sellers, bidders, and buyers with quality customer care and a limited set of features and tools through October 29, 2007.
Please keep the following dates in mind when using the Yahoo! US and Canada Auction sites:
• Last day to list an item: June 3, 2007
• Listings will not auto re-submit after June 3, 2007. (This could mean that your listings may not be submitted 5 times)
• Last day to Bid/Buy: June 16, 2007
• Last day to access remaining site tools such as My Account: October 29, 2007
Additional Note:
• US Buyer Protection Plan claims must be submitted no later than 60 days after you have been declared the winning bidder for an auction.
• As of May 4, 2007, the Auto Re-Submit feature and the Auctons Scheduler are no longer available for new auctions listings.
Remember that you have options within Yahoo! such as:  Yahoo! Shopping  |  Yahoo! Autos  |  Yahoo! Classifieds  |  Yahoo! Small Business  - or - view a complete list of Yahoo! sites
Selling, Bidding and Buying safely during the remaining days of Yahoo! US Auctions
While you continue to use the U.S. and Canada Yahoo! Auctions sites, please follow these safety guidelines:
• Know who you're dealing with - Deals should only go forward if the both the buyer and the seller are comfortable with each other and the terms of the sale.
• Use the Question & Answer form - if anything seems unclear. It is very important that you know what you are bidding on and the terms of sale before you bid.
• Keep Records - of all correspondence
• Carefully Evaluate - your payment options
• Use common sense - If the item description or terms of sale seem too good to be true, they probably are.
Additional Resources:
• Help for Bidders/Buyers:  http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/auctions/bid/
• The Yahoo! Buyer Protection Plan:  http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/auction...re-01.html
• Help for Sellers:  http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/auctions/sell

The above tips are not designed to scare you, but to encourage you to be smart, use common sense, and have fun. The use of Yahoo! Auctions is entirely at your own risk. Please review our Terms of Service and Additional Terms of Service for more information.

http://auctions.yahoo.com/show/us/eol_re...pe=message

[jessie]

I'm surprised they didn't do it 3 years ago.

[mandy]

In the beginning...1999

http://web.archive.org/web/1999020800342...yahoo.com/

[sneakymagenta]

I was there in the beginning 

[mandy]

Plug pulling news coverage:

Yahoo Inc. is quietly shutting down two once-promising Internet businesses -- Yahoo Auctions and Yahoo Photos -- as it struggles to stay focused in its pursuit of archrival Google Inc.

The moves come six months after a top Yahoo executive wrote a damning internal memo - dubbed the "Peanut Butter Manifesto" - that lambasted the company's helter-skelter growth.

Yahoo's scattered businesses are like "peanut butter" on toast, "a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do, and thus we focus on nothing in particular," senior vice-president Brad Garlinghouse lamented in the now-infamous leaked document...

full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/s...columnists

Yahoo (Quote) has decided that its gavel has had enough. The company announced on a post to its Web site that its U.S. and Canada Auctions site will go dark on June 16...

But a quick look at the stats indicate that the writing was on the wall that Yahoo Auctions in the U.S. and Canada weren't long for the Web.

According to Hitwise, a media metrics firm, in the week ending May 5, 2007, eBay Web sites (including eBay, eBay Motors and eBay UK and Canada) accounted for more than 94 percent of visits to the auction sites Hitwise monitors. Yahoo Auctions scored only 0.19 of all visits to those same sites...

In a blog post commenting on the news, Hitwise Research Director LeeAnn Prescott wrote that Yahoo likely decided to close the Auctions site not long after it became eBay's exclusive provider of graphical ads, as well as sponsored search advertisements...

full article: http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3676706

Yahoo Auctions USA's market share was only 0.2% :blinkie: - smaller than Amazon Auctions' 0.3% share. :blinkie:

Shopping and Classifieds - Auctions Monthly Market Share of US Visits Rankings
For the month of April, 2007
Rank Name Domain Market Share
1 eBay www.ebay.com 79.01%
2 eBay Motors www.ebaymotors.com 14.77%
3 GunBroker.com www.gunbroker.com 0.57%
4 Copart www.copart.com 0.41%
5 Amazon.com Auctions auctions.amazon.com 0.30%
6 Bidz.com www.bidz.com 0.29%
7 uBid.com www.ubid.com 0.27%
8 eBay UK www.ebay.co.uk 0.23%
9 eBay Canada www.ebay.ca 0.20%
10 Yahoo! Auctions auctions.yahoo.com 0.19%

full article: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/0...-their-run

[maggie777]

[quote author=sneakymagenta link=topic=10302.msg52197#msg52197 date=1178401414]
I was there in the beginning 
[/quote]

Me too.

[mandy]

Bidville's new banner ad "Bidville.  Your Yahoo Auctions Alternative"
http://www.auctionbytes.com/phpAdsNew-2...._yahoo.gif&contenttype=gif

[bidvillesucks]

[quote author=mandy link=topic=10302.msg52989#msg52989 date=1179048576]
Bidville's new banner ad "Bidville.  Your Yahoo Auctions Alternative"
http://www.auctionbytes.com/phpAdsNew-2...._yahoo.gif&contenttype=gif
[/quote]

Where else but Bidville would Yahoo's 168,000 sports cards go?  YAY! More nickle baseball cards.

[amy]

The penny cards could go to Online Auction too--90% of the items on that site are sports cards. 

[sneakymagenta]

Yahoo Listings 1,050,000
Yahoo listings 791,000