Wish Ebay was more like Yahoo Auctions

[sdot10]

Yahoo auctions did suck but it had one great feature I remember. If your item was about to end and if someone mad a bid within the last like 30 seconds or so, the auction would automatically be extended by 5 minutes or something like that.

1. It gave those bidding the opportunity to make a counter bid if they really wanted the item
2. It reduced those fraud account people from just sitting around and bidding really high at the end and winning a bunch of auctions they aren going to pay for.
3. Gave you an opportunity to check out who just bid. With that extra time you could email, check the feedback and stuff like that to make sure the person was actually valid.

I think if ebay actually added something like this it would make everything so much better.

[Jonas]

I researched that and it's that when people do that it just encourages snipe bidding.

But sometimes there's a bidding war for hours and hours afterwards and that's good for sellers. eBay would never do that because they hate their sellers and eBay wouldn't want an auction extended extra then it's like giving something away for free.

But the one bad thing I researched was it would encourage everyone to end their items in the evening instead of randomly all day so there'd be the maximum likelyhood of a long bidding war and everything ending all at once would put a strain on servers.

[Ballsack]

Yahoo auctions requests ssn for registration. I'm sorry but what gives them the right to ask for that so I can bid on their site? No wonder they went out of business.

[Jonas]

Does Yahoo auctions do anything like that in foreign countries?

[Ballsack]

Well since yahoo auctions is defunct it's kind of moot now.

[2eXclusiive]

yahoo auctions recently went down, has anyone sold or sell on amazon? how is it? are they strict like ebay?

[411guru]

Wrong. Yahoo auctions is only pwn3d by ebay in the US. It owns Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It killed ebay.co.jp in Japan as well as ebay.co.tw in Taiwan. Didn't know ebay had websites in those countries? Thats cuz they were killed by Yahoo auctions. I am registered on yahoo auctions Singapore and no they didn't require SSN just credit card.

[2eXclusiive]

are the sales/traffic good in Singapore?

[411guru]

I don't know. I have just registered. I hope so.

[Ballsack]

Yahoo singapore is absolutely dreadful. Their search engine doesn't even work properly. No matter what category you click on you only see a few results even though there's alot more on the site. And when you type stuff up you end up with a couple of results that have nothing to do with your keywords.

[2eXclusiive]

ah man, whats the best yahoo auction site? anyone know?