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Description

Yahoo! Auctions is a popular online auction website based in the United States with several international versions. It is a service offered by the Yahoo! portal and can be used by any person with a free Yahoo! membership. In additon to a series of categories, Yahoo! Auctions offer a search tool to search through auctions.

Each individual product has a product page which contains a variety of specific information about the product, such as the seller's Yahoo! username with a rating and available payment and shipping options. The page also includes information about the auction itself the current highest bid, the time left until the auction closes, the number of bids that have been placed, the starting price and the product location. Seperate pages are also available for each product covering questions for the bidder, the bid history and a description of the product being sold.

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Categories and International Versions

Yahoo! auctions is seperated into categories of the most common auction products to make it easier to find individual products. Main categories include categories for automotive products, antiques and art, collectibles, jewelry, collectibles and memorabilia. There are also non-traditional auction categories such as movies and television, electronics and cameras, video games, clothing and accessories, music and sports and outdoors.

There are also national versions of Yahoo! auctions for Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Singapore and Taiwan in addition to the international US-based version. The Singapore and Canada versions are in English while the other versions are in other languages.