Yahoo! Auctions to Close Singapore Site on Oct 6
 

With this news, we may have to change the name of this sub-forum.

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13 August 2008 1815 hrs (SST) 1015 hrs (GMT)
SINGAPORE : Yahoo! Auctions is closing its Singapore site with effect from October 6. Yahoo! said it decided to do so after careful consideration.

In June last year, the company shut its auction service in North America.

In response to Channel NewsAsia's query, a spokesman for Yahoo! Southeast Asia said: "In examining where we allocated our resources, we realised we could provide more value to our customers through other properties and decided to close the Yahoo! Singapore Auctions site."

According to Yahoo!, this latest action should not impact Yahoo! worldwide auctions businesses, including its auction websites in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The last day for Yahoo! Auctions Singapore users to list an item for sale is September 1, while the last day to bid on or buy an item on the site is September 21. - CNA /ls

Re: Yahoo! Auctions to Close Singapore Site on Oct 6
 

It's not surprising. If you look at both yahoo & ebay auction, they are quite empty.

For example: Out of 100 products listed, only 1-2 have a bid on it.

Re: Yahoo! Auctions to Close Singapore Site on Oct 6
 

i guess that depends on your product and pricing too.

so now.. other than ebay, any other similar auction sites for local sellers?

Re: Yahoo! Auctions to Close Singapore Site on Oct 6
 

I still think EBay is useful and more common.
It's luck... And you must have things that people want.

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but ebay need to pay rite?

Re: Yahoo! Auctions to Close Singapore Site on Oct 6
 

Not really, you can choose free listing on ebay like no fancy border, only 3 pictures in maximum, only list 7 days or less and no picture view on main listing, etc....

Not easy to sell online in Singapore!

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Yeah...EBay is free actually...
Unless you want some fanciful things like borders, highlights, bolding text, etc..
But a maximum of 3 pics per listing.. After that, there'll be a charge.
I've been selling on EBay for quite a while now..
And I've been doing great.. Like I say, you must have things that people want. And don't be surprised if your "who would buy this" things can sell. :p

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Hi all, ya besides that also luck do plays a part. I do have overseas buyers who had bought things from me; email me to hunt for particular items for them. I also want to know too. By the way, are we in singapore allowed to post our items on other countries yahoo site and is it free?

TYVM.

Re: Yahoo! Auctions to Close Singapore Site on Oct 6
 

yup you can. I sold on overseas auction sites before...

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Hi... may I know is it free or need to pay? What is the pros n cons to sell in overseas site (oops hope I'm not asking stupid question hee.. as not so good in computer). Hope you can share with us what is the site or you can just PM me? Well, if you think it's better not it's ok nvm. TYVM.

Re: Yahoo! Auctions to Close Singapore Site on Oct 6
 

I've been wanting to try out ebay for a very long time...but people around me discourage me...saying things like:

-they say they'll meet up with you but didn't turn up
-after a few days, if something happened to your product, they demand a refund.
-they refused to pay before seeing the product first.
-ebay take a percentage from the selling price if the buyer uses Paypal or Visa or any of ebay's payment mode.

Now I read the comments here...I'm confused...I guess if I don't try, I'll never know right?

Like most of you have said...it depends on luck too...so maybe the people around me hasn't been that 'lucky' while those of you here are a lucky bunch... *wink*:clap:

Re: Yahoo! Auctions to Close Singapore Site on Oct 6
 

Actually you can try GUMTREE or 99AUCTION. 99AUCTION has the almost same function as yahoo auction but photo uploading is about 300kb

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Hi like to quiry, u said u have sold on overseas auction but have u encounter any problems such as money transaction, strange ppl who 1 2 buy?

Bcos I recently, received a email from a person. He said he is interested in my item which I put up on auction but he is from Nigeria. I felt not very safe to do transaction with him as he request to use west union payment, somemore Nigeria ppl always scam.

Re: Yahoo! Auctions to Close Singapore Site on Oct 6
 

If you are selling overseas, I strongly recommend you to ONLY accept orders from USA, UK, Canada and Australia.

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Paypal & Credit cards will normally charge 3-4% per transaction. Personally, I dont think Paypal fraud detection is good enough. You may need to change your paypal setting to only receive payment from an account which has a credit card tied to it. This normally will eliminate quite a huge percentage of fraud buyers.

You will have to state it clearly on your refund/exchange policy.

I believe ebay terms & conditions spell it out clearly that by clicking on the button, the buyer is committed to the purchase.

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My suggestion is not to accept this transaction. I have been a seller on both Yahoo and ebay US and ebay SG for the past 3 years. I would say about 99% of my sales have been successful. Occassionaly you do tend to get suspicious queries. If for any reason you feel uncomfortable with any transaction, don't go through with it. Also, always use authorized or official gateways to deal with such queries i.e. use the ask question feature on ebays site to deal with such queries. NEVER use your own email to reply.

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Hi... you can go to "Build Your Reputation
This is a thread in the Selling on eBay & Yahoo! Auctions forums" look up for thread #16, #13 and #11 on my experience. Same as you after going thru the forum I've tried to put up on ebay again it's ok even got buyers from overseas who asked me to find things for them. I personally feels that luck do plays an impt. part. Remember only the singapore ebay it's free.

Depends on item is it necessary for meet-up? For me I won't sell items that require meet up as too troublesome hee... Things won't always run smoothly but we've to take in our own stride.

Ya a certain percentage multiply your selling price and plus another S$0.50.

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Pls refer to all my threads under this "Paypal experiences"
This is a thread in the General Online Selling Discussion forums.

I only accepts Paypal for overseas buyers as other mode of payments have to incur higher charges or I feel not safe some trying to get info from you in order to access your account etc. So it's best that you do your 'homework' .. ask for clarifications from bank which I did and if staffs give you different answer better seek for further clarifications. I'm the 'kiasu and kiasee' type haha... If the person doesn't want to pay me thru paypal or got problem in paying thru paypal, I rather call off the deal so can sleep better at nite hee...

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Oh may I know if I didn't state which countries I don't want to sell to then the buyer from that particular countries already bid my item then how? Oh no I have to amend 100 over items in the description in ebay then....

Oh then I've to ask ebay any short cut for the amendments then...sigh...TY.

Re: Yahoo! Auctions to Close Singapore Site on Oct 6
 

Now there is gmarket :clap:

Re: Yahoo! Auctions to Close Singapore Site on Oct 6
 

some suppliers don't allow retailers to sell their stuff on ebay. mine don't. I used to have an ebay store but now no more already. Some more I sold on ebay US so the fees was crazy!