I notice that in some catagories,e.g., 2005 silver proof sets, very few items are bid on and very few trade on yahoo. Yahoo seems very close to ebay in format and rules. Any comments on why they appear to attract so little attention. I guess they are also free to the sellers.
They attract so little attention because they attract so little attention - they've always been that way. It even got to the point where I quit lookin - and I try to watch everything
I've gotten burned by Yahoo Auctions before. Never had it happen on ebay, and I've had 500+ transactions there.
say you have a nice coin to sell, where are you going to go? Me, I'm gonna go to the place with the bigger audience, to attract the largest number of possible bidders. That is enough incentive for me to avoid yahoo
A couple of years ago I tried an experiment - I had two equal grade sets of common Yugoslavian coins, so I put one up on Yahoo and the other on EBay. The Yahoo set sold at the opening bid but on EBay I had three bidders, and two of them made multiple bids. End result - After paying all fees the EBay set netted me a little more than three times what the Yahoo set brought. Can you guess where I prefer to sell? I have a couple of alerts set up at both sites, and receive notice of 2-3 Yahoo listings per week, compared to multiple listings 7 days a week from EBay. Can you guess where I do more buying?
