Yahoo! Auction carries out substantial renewal to differentiate prompt decision products and bid products

Japan's largest Internet auction service "Yahoo! Auction" has been renewed considerably since September 6, 2011. We announced that we will differentiate at the stage of exhibition to "fixed-price goods" fixed price and "bidding products" whose price is determined by bidding.

Yahoo! Auction renewed, differentiating "bidding items" and "prompt decision items" - Notice from Yahoo! JAPAN Public Information - Yahoo! Blog

In the current "Yahoo! Auction", in many cases "current price" and "prompt decision price" determined by bidding are displayed for one listing. Basically, while bidding with a bidding method, if you really want to bid off the item, in most cases you will pay the amount of "prompt decision price" which is set higher price than "current price", so that the auction will expire You can end it before you can make a bid. On the other hand, some exhibitors set only "prompt decision price", so if you want to purchase it, you are in a form to pay a fixed price and you can use it in a sense close to general online shopping .


According to Yahoo! JAPAN Public Information Blog, "Yahoo! Auction" increases the number of listings as the market grows, making it difficult for searches for the desired product, and by adding various functions He said that he was in trouble making it complicated.

It is hard to understand for those who use the service for the first time and because "deviation" has come to be seen from the concept "easy for everyone" at the start of service provision, "Everyone can easily It is said that it was supposed to be renewed this time in order to return to the origin to "providing a place where you can buy and sell items".

This is the image image after renewal. It separately displays the product list of "the bidding commodity (goods sold in auction form)" and "prompt decision goods (fixed price products that can be bid successfully now)" which is the real pleasure of auction.


As a result of telephone inquiries to Yahoo! Public Information, there has been no change in the exhibition side particularly with respect to this renewal, and it is now possible to set a prompt decision price for "bidding items" as before That's right.

After the change, clicking the tab of "auction form of the product" displays the auction form items including the items for which the prompt decision price is set, and if you click "the item of the successful bid now", the bid price is set Only products with no fixed price will be displayed. Since the search results are displayed regardless of the price setting on the tab of "All products", it seems that you can use the auction more conveniently by using properly according to time and case.