Ebay Desktop

Free from Ebay, Ebay Desktop offers a refreshing alternative to using ebay through your browser. A downloadable programme, designed to sit on your desktop and keep your eBay buying activity just fingertips away, it has the added advantage of being able to minimise itself to the system tray if required. Version 1 seems mainly aimed at buyers, with little value included for eBay sellers at this stage. However, eBay have little reason to include sellers option as presumably this would create more competition for their existing products such as Selling Manager Pro.

Refreshing, easy to use and a sharp contrast to using eBay though the web, eBay desktop first starts with video introductry running you though the various options and a short tour of the product. Initially you have to login with your eBay username and password and then it imports your information such as favourite searches, sellers, messages and your watch list.

Ebay Desktop works on the majority of eBay sites, although you may want to set it to your local version of eBay via the settings menu. One of the best features I found is it allows you to set yourself reminders before auctions end, of either 1 hour, 30 minutes or 10 minutes for a last minute snipe.

Only version 1 is currently released so they’re are some known issues, however these should hopefully be ironed out soon. However, from what I’ve seen so far it’s found a permanent icon on my desktop. You can download eBay desktop & find out more information from: http://dogpuss.com/ebaydesktop

Written by Mark on March 3rd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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