Yes, Yahoo has started charging listing fees, but
this should come at no surprise for those of us 
with our heads on. :P Let's not get into an 
immature proto-philosophical debate on e-commerce 
practices if people can't get it in their heads 
that a heavily trafficked service site won't 
logically support costs and profits via ads 
alone. Anyway, maybe we can discuss other things, 
like Yahoo classifieds (free), or driving more 
traffic to Yahoo, hmm?  ("Why would I want to do 
that?")

Yahoo:

1) Both sellers and bidders are required to 
verify their cc accounts; helps to prevent in 
some measure fraudulent aucs and bogus bids. 

2) Sellers can specifiy a base feedback profile 
on bids to their aucs, e.g. no net negs.

3) Sellers can block certain bidders from their 
aucs completely with the account blacklist.

4) Auto-resubmit option up to three times. (Not 
sure how fees apply here)

5) Up to three free images hosted.

6) Multiple listings in delimited form with pics 
can be uploaded in a ZIP file, saves a lot of 
time. 

7) Leaving feedback for someone automatically 
sends an e-mail to that person, which is a great 
reminder for them to leave feedback for you. The 
allowed fb length is longer than eBay's and there 
are more grade options. 

8) Buy Price (before and unlike eBay's Buy It 
Now) is available for the entire auction should 
sellers use the option. 

9) Listing fees (1/10) are competitive with eBay 
fees. Paydirect is still completely free (if/when 
it starts charging fees, it should also be 
competitive with Paypal). 

10) Complaints against auctions may be filed on 
the auction page itself; never tried it, dunno how
long it takes for them to respond, I think it's 
number-based. ("Neighborhood Watch")

Tables are in the next post [hopefully].