I stand corrected, Bill! I guess I should've said I used to find more of what I was looking for on Yahoo's auctions when eBay first started getting settled in; it sure seemed like a larger site than eBay in those days. But heck, back then, I knew a 10th as much as I do about records now, with a great deal of info learned through eBay listings. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Burns" <billb at ftldesign.com> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 7:57 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] OT - Ebay rebellion > Robert Wright wrote: >> Yahoo has no auction site. They used to, and in the beginnings of eBay, >> Yahoo's was substantially larger and more active than eBay's. > > No, that's not right. eBay started in 1995, and Yahoo attempted to > compete with them on auctions starting in 1998, followed by Amazon in > 1999. eBay was so well established by then that neither Yahoo's nor > Amazon's auctions got much traffic, and they both gave up. > > I signed up as a seller with eBay in 1996, less than a year after they > opened for business. > > See: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay > > http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/Yahoo!_Auctions > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com > > -- > Bill Burns > Long Island NY USA > http://ftldesign.com > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >