A WebmasterWorld member is a bit disappointed at an email he received from Yahoo which says that Yahoo will be raising the price of the minimum credit card amount to $250, up 10x from the previous amount of $25. Here’s a snippet:

Why did Yahoo do this? One thought is that Yahoo may have had to pay the transactional fee and didn’t want to. It’s also thought that Yahoo is about to lose a good number of small business subscribers who are not willing to pay $250, so Yahoo’s savings may also be its loss.

A number of people are looking to leave Yahoo due to this price increase. I can’t say I blame them.

Forum discussion continues at WebamsterWorld.

Update: Yahoo has sent us a statement on this news: