NOEL O\'SULLIVAN This isn't a bad program and has a great selection of good-looking templates. The ability to paste in rich HTML to listings makes it very useful for creating good-looking listings. I am a casual eBay user, not a store owner, and so have only sold individual items. For new users this is confusing as the workflow always involves creating a Template, not a listing. Once you get past that there are issues: Switching between styles/layouts takes an excessive amount of time and locks up the mac for a while. All of the shipping types and payment types for my country (Australia) are only sort-of supported and if I haven't used the application for a while and list a new item, it will almost always be rejected because of some incompatible mix of attributes. In addition, I will almost always need to log into eBay and revise my item to set the shipping and payment options properly and set item-specific attributes. You can blame eBay's APIs for this (and I'm sure they're crap given the quality of the rest of eBay) but the reason to pay for a program is to make the experience of using eBay less irritating. The key attributes I would use to judge any listing software are: Does it make it easy for me to make a professional looking listing? - in GarageSale's case this is certainly true. Does it save me time so I can get back to doing more interesting things with my life? Sadly, in GarageSale's case I can't say it does. yes, my listings look better but they take me just as long (or longer because of the need to revise at the end) to get going. A good tool and I'm sure it would be of MUCH greater value if I was regularly selling similar items. For a casual user selling single items, you might be better off sticking with eBay's (now less awful than it used to be) user interface. (Version 5.3.4) |