Yahoo shut down their auction site in Canada and the U.S. This article says Yahoo bows to eBay. In Japan, Yahoo auction reigns supreme and eBay closed in the Japan market.
Regarding eBay, I read articles sometimes that "Jesus appears!" items are sold. Sometimes we have such an auction topic in the news. Recently I read about $300,000 of Platinum Gundam models being sold. I wrote about a silly battle about Nintendo DS, when we had the Spoo craze (we can't see Spoo videos anymore on Youtube, weep weep), a handmade Spoo figure was sold at auction.
"Yahoo auc watch" is a blog about Yahoo auctions. The site picks weird, funny, interesting items selling on the yahoo auction.
I knew this one. It was funny so that I sent the auction link to my friend. The woman sold her black jacket, and the auction title was "you can be erokawaii like Kumi Koda, it will nice in disco," something like that. Of course, the gap between her style and the title was funny, but it was fun to read their exchanges over (web translated) on Q&A. "Q. What's going on in the third pic? Ghost or something?" "A. I am dancing," "Q. The price is including the cute girl in the pic?" "A. Selling bodies is illegal." "Q. What is good to eat with cucumber?" "A. it will be miso," etc...useless, crazy exchanges were continued till the last day. The price got to be $ 99 million or so. Maybe the auction would be invalid in the end.
Someone sold 258 center cores of toilet paper, and some bought it at 99 yen. Q&A was funny too. "Q. How do you want winning bidder to use those cores?" "A. I hope the new owner follows my footsteps and collects more and more." "Q. Do you have any suggestion for uses of those cores?" "A. These are good for Umaibo case". etc...ha ha ha crazy.
She is a famous auction seller because of useless long explanations. In this case, she talked about her diet, fight with younger co-workers, her finance problem, etc. to sell that swim wear.
Mushroom on the shower;room floor (ahh, I don't want to touch it), Golden mermaid suit (what a taste), Day bag (no idea..why he was naked?), PC desk (dirty desk...then three pictures were almost the same. The cake looks delicious though)... There are so many crazy happenings on Yahoo Japan auction. We love it.
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Posted by: mbt shoes | Thursday, September 09, 2010 at 05:55 PM
Payment methods on Yahoo acution?
I just won an auction, but am confused on how to pay the seller.
Posted by: buy valtrex | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 11:06 PM
Hi there
Japanese good will be nice on ebay but delivery is always problem. Actualy I think it will be interesting to open Japanese item shops in the U.S
Posted by: Mari | Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 05:39 PM
I thought about selling lots of Japanese toys to American and European otakus on ebay to make money.
Posted by: Roaf | Monday, May 14, 2007 at 10:47 PM
I *love* your highlights of crazy Yahoo Japan auctions! Please keep doing them!
Many thanks, Lisa---a devoted reader.
Posted by: Lisa | Friday, May 11, 2007 at 08:14 PM
What are the reasons behind Ebay business withdrawed from Japan.
I just knew.
Posted by: Sutanai | Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 10:41 PM