Changing a regional listing to a mainstream listing

Has anybody done it recently?

[Robert Charlton]

I know that the right way to change a listing in Yahoo is to use their standard change form, and that if you try to use Biz Express instead, they'll simply take your money and tell you to use the change form.

That said... I'm working on a couple of sites now that have absolutely miserable, wretched, incorrect regional listings, probably submitted free by someone's great grandfather and edited by a nearsighted editor with a hangover and a sense of revenge... and I'm wondering whether Yahoo, for no charge, is about to change these absolutely useless listings to the shiny brand new really useful mainstream titles, descriptions, and categories that I will submit, which currently go for $299 per year.

Has anybody done it recently?

[Brett_Tabke]

I've heard (not experienced), that if you put in the note field of the submission that this is a replacement for a site you did not submit, they will replace the old listing.

[Robert Charlton]

Am I right in guessing this report is about using Biz Express? That's an approach I'd use if I had to. I assume the changed listing would then be treated as a new one, and would become subject to the annual fee.

I'm also still wondering whether anybody's changed an existing listing after Dec 28 (a topic I'd posted about a while back), and what the fee situation then becomes.

[2_much]

Apparently, to change the listing you have to use the free change form (which doesn't work). They say that if they DO change your listing, you're not subject to the renewal fee. I haven't tested this myself but that seems to be their stance on that issue.