Back in April I blogged about GarageBuy the ultimate all in one local eBay shopping tool. Well at the opposite end of the auction process, GarageSale offers to be the all in one eBay auction tool.
This is the latest in a long line of outstanding applications from the people over at iwascoding.com. GarageSale is the Mac OS X equivalent of eBay’s own TurboLister. However it’s feature list puts it in a league of it’s own as far as auction design is concerned. Producing a professional looking eBay auction could not be easier, with the ‘mac look’ template chooser.
Once you have chosen from one of the many (140) professional templates, you can then easily modify the content of the auction by overtyping the latin in the preview pane. Thus providing a true WYSIWYG editor for your eBay auction, as this is recognised as a text entry field all of the standard OS X tools kick in, giving you spelling and grammar checking as standard.
GarageSale also has a very powerful way of handling the images used in your listings. Giving you the ability to drag and drop straight from your Mac Finder window. More importantly, when you come to publish your auction the application will automatically upload your images to a host of your choice and adjust the listing accordingly! This is perfect for saving on those eBay listing fee’s.
GarageSale boasts a whole range of features, all of which aimed at making your eBay listing as straight forward as possible, whilst saving time for those who list many items or own an eBay store. For a full list of features visit GarageSales feature page.
GarageSale is available as a free trial, with the only limitation being it will only list 3 eBay auctions. Alternatively, if you find yourself in need of it’s advanced feature set on all your auctions you can grab a licence for $39.99.
To use the powerful eBay listing tool you will need to be running Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6.
GarageSale is also available for your iPhone or iPad in the form of GarageSale Touch.
If I am completely honest I have never been a huge fan of eBay and it’s crazy page layouts, and the hoops you have to jump through just to do the simplest of tasks. Which is why I was quick to download this application when I saw it listed on MacUpdate’s website.
GarageBuy is an application made by the team over at iwascoding.com, which essentially gives you a native mac interface in which to perform your normal day to day eBay duties. Such as searching, tracking and bidding. What makes GarageBuy better then the eBay site is the amount of work it saves you having to trawl through all those tacky adds, and frankly un-needed pages in order to ‘watch’ or ‘bid’ on items.
GarageBuy can be set to search you local site, and features all of the filters available on the normal eBay site. Such as ‘Auctions’, ‘Buy It Now’, ‘Fixed Price’, ‘Store Inventory’ and ‘Classifieds’
Once you have set your required filters, and entered your search criteria a quick search returns you list of products and their details all inside the native app. As you can see from the screenshot below, the interface is far cleaner and less cluttered then the normal eBay site:
The above is the search results for an iPhone 3GS dock. Once you have found a product you are interested in you can drill down into it and read it’s description, check out any pictures attached, place a bid or add it to you watched list all from the comfort of the simple right click context menu.
As the application is ‘tied’ to your eBay account using a security token based system there is no need to go through all the hassle of entering your credentials to do all these tasks.
One other bonus about the application is that when you perform date sensitive tasks around auction items it is also capable of adding reminder information into your ‘iCal’ ensuring you never miss the end of that important auction again.
Personally I love the app, and think I will be using it for all my future eBay purchases! You can download a copy from the official website.
However, if you are more of an eBay seller then you are a buyer, never feel – as iwascoding.com have also made some other Native interface applications for works at the other side of the eBay table!
GarageSale is a slick, full-featured client application for the eBay online auction system. With GarageSale Mac OS X users can edit, track and manage all their auctions with one single application – easily and fast. Use GarageSale’s intuitive and reliable interfaceto create eBay auctions conveniently. Stop waiting for eBay to lead you through endless web pages step-by-step.
GarageSale also comes in an iPodiPhone variant and is available to download from the AppStore
GaragePay lets you download, view, search and archive all your PayPal transactions without having to log into the PayPal website. It handles incoming as well as outgoing money transfers.
