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Anyone used Yahoo Auctions lately?

I bought me a used Power FC the other day, fantastic - got it for a steal!

Anyway, went back in today to bid on something else.. and they have changed the rules. You now have to become a 'premium' member to bid on anything over ¥5000!

This means giving Yahoo your credit card number and paying ¥294 a month for the rest of you life.

This sux. Bugger you Yahoo Japan :)

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yahoo membership has always been free of monthly fees. I think from memory it cost me a few hundred yen when I first signed up (years ago) but you never had to pay monthly fees. I gave them japanese credit car but never really had it billed for anything since I've never sold anything on yahoo.

are you a premium member? if so then you are paying the monthly fee.

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yahoo membership has always been free of monthly fees. I think from memory it cost me a few hundred yen when I first signed up (years ago) but you never had to pay monthly fees. I gave them japanese credit car but never really had it billed for anything since I've never sold anything on yahoo.

are you a premium member? if so then you are paying the monthly fee.

i guess i must be, i pay something like 200yen a month, I have to ask jesse if my account is premium as he set it up for me

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you've always had to pay a once off fee, but the new "premium user" scheme is a variant on the old put your credit card in, pay a once off and off you go scheme.

Its been around for a couple of months now from memory, definitely not a year. We've got a premium account now, otherwise we couldn't bid on cars :)

I think some high price auctions allow you to still bid on em if you're not a premium user though, if the seller pays extra... not really sure on the details.

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It has always been a monthly based fee. About a year ago or so they introduced a campaign where it was free to make an account (with no monthly fees) and in July they changed the rights of the `free` users to a limit of 4,999yen bids. So it depends when you signed up as Yahoo always have campaigns coming and going. Usually its a 294yen (~$3 AUD) a month fee to be a premium(non restricted) user.

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I pay $3 a month.... it's like a coffee i will never get back each month :~(

hello Sewid

How does one go about joining

I see a few things i want but thought you had to use some of the various agencies who charge like wounded bulls.

A link would be good

$3 is nothing.

Hope to hear from u soon

regards

Ike

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you can open an account pretty easily, but you'll just end up getting a bad rating when you try to communicate with the seller in english, or you spring that "i'm in australia, can you post international" on them.

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