Best Auction site on the net (yahoo.uk.com)

Member Name: rozbeh

Product:	yahoo.uk.com
Date:	27/08/01 (80 review reads)
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Advantages: Free, Well Laid Out site, Fast servers

Disadvantages: More chance of fake bidders, More chances of shilling

Without doubt Yahoo! Auctions is the best auction site on the Internet. Firstly there are no listing fees or final value fees like Ebay so you won't have to surrender a certain percentage of the closing price to Yahoo!. Secondly the site is very well laid out and very very easy to use with many categories and lots of auctions. The Yahoo! servers are very fast so loading times for the site are very quick. The site is also packed with features like the "watchlist" feature which allows you to view the status of a particular auction at a glance. Whether you are a trader selling on Yahoo! or just a home user selling spare items around the house Yahoo! Auctions is perfect. All in all Yahoo! Auctions is the best around but there is one major fault in the system which really lets it down. As a seller you need to register your credit card which is a good idea but as a buyer you may signup to Yahoo! mail, for example, and use your mail account to bid on auctions. This poses two major problems. Firstly the chances of people doing fake bids on your auction without the intention of paying is greatly increased. This is both annoying and time-wasting. Secondly, this will lead to more sellers "shilling" (i.e. bidding on their own auctions to raise the minimum bid needed). Despite these two flaws Yahoo! Auctions is far superior than any other Internet auction site.

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