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Yahoo is sending yet another service out to pasture. Later this year Yahoo plans to retire its auction site, Yahoo Auctions. [Auctions][3] is the second service to be closed this week, following on the heals of an announcement that Yahoo Photos would be discontinued.
However, unlike the [closing of Yahoo Photos][2], which is attempting to migrate moving users to Yahoo's other photo site, Flickr, there is no alternative for Yahoo Auction users.
As with the demise of Yahoo Photos, there was initially [no explicit announcement][2] on the Yahoo site, rather the information was quietly released to the media. There is now an announcement on the Yahoo Auctions site informing users that the last day to list your items is June 3 and the last day to bid/buy is June 16.
Given that Yahoo Auctions held only .2 percent of the online auction market (according to traffic measures from comScore) the closing isn't really a surprise. As with Google's decision to [shut down Google Answers][4] last year, Yahoo knows defeat when it sees it.
For those currently relying on Yahoo Auctions, might we suggest a little site called EBay which currently accounts for more the 94 percent of all online auctions traffic. Sell your stuff were the people are, that's a logic even Yahoo can't dispute.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/yahoo_shutters_.html "Yahoo Shutters Photos In Favor Of Flickr"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/hey_yahoo_whats.html "Hey, Yahoo -- What's Gonna Happen To My Photos?"
[3]: http://auctions.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Auctions closing"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/google_answers_.html "Google Answers Rides into the Sunset"
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