June 16th will be the last day you can run a Yahoo Auction. Evidently they’re trying to get out of businesses where they’re not in the top tier of competitors to focus on where they are already strong and, in this instance, to joint venture with Ebay on projects that play to their strengths.
From Web Pro News
Yahoo and eBay have been working together on projects since May 2006. Their most recent deal brought PayPal to Yahoo as a payment mechanism for Yahoo’s online retailer clients.
Although it is not stated as such in the official announcement, the end of Yahoo Auctions in the US and Canada in June removes them from the online auction competition with eBay.
One of Yahoo’s deals with eBay has it placing advertising on eBay’s domestic pages. Although Yahoo is one of the most heavily trafficked domains on the Internet, that has never translated into online auction success; we have to think the ad deal is performing much better for Yahoo.
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