The latest news from Yahoo is that they will be closing their “Yahoo Auctions” next month. This does not come as a surprise. After all, eBay is crushing the market and in many ways is an unstoppable force. This brings some questions to mind though. There were (and still are) several rumors floating around about Microsoft being interested in buying eBay. As far as I know there has not been any new developments in this yet, but, I’m keeping my eyes peeled. Just lately speculation has pointed to a possible purchase of Yahoo by Microsoft for close to 60 billion dollars… Now assuming Microsoft did in fact purchase Yahoo AND eBay, I could see why Yahoo would close down Yahoo Auctions. Seeing as this has not happened yet, and quite possibly may never happen, I’m not sure why Yahoo would do this.


Yahoo Auctions has been a website that a lot of people burned out on eBay would go to, along with Overstock.com and uBid.com. Obviously it didn’t work for Yahoo so how do other companies plan to succeed? eBay is a giant with no equal. There isn’t even a close second after Yahoo Auctions closes down. The online auction world could definitely use some shaking around. I would still like to see Microsoft buy Yahoo AND eBay. That would put Google in their place, and fast!