Paul T
Quite good little app but needs work, could do with more search options and won't show all items in your watch list if they are on certain foreign eBay sites i.e France etc
Stick to the eBay app..
I'm thinking of getting the pricey big brother to this on my mac - so I figured I'd trial the free version on my iPhone and Mac. Using the eBay app on my phone for buying and selling has been more than adequate.. Within 10 minutes of loading this- its quite slow, has frozen once and crashed twice.
Searches - doesn't download ones set up on eBay (unlike my eBay app..). I couldn't find a way to search in specific categories, along with other issues - the search facility is extremely limited.
Watching - it provides limited details on items - I like to look at seller feedback, what else are they selling etc.. For any of that it takes you to a tiny screen of the actual listing.
I'd give it zero if I could.. Why make an app if it isn't going to be better than the existing eBay app? Or at least make it as good as! Its putting me off spending Β£28 quid on the fully functioning version - a lot of money to gamble on something. :/
Searches - doesn't download ones set up on eBay (unlike my eBay app..). I couldn't find a way to search in specific categories, along with other issues - the search facility is extremely limited.
Watching - it provides limited details on items - I like to look at seller feedback, what else are they selling etc.. For any of that it takes you to a tiny screen of the actual listing.
I'd give it zero if I could.. Why make an app if it isn't going to be better than the existing eBay app? Or at least make it as good as! Its putting me off spending Β£28 quid on the fully functioning version - a lot of money to gamble on something. :/
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Update Doesn
After downloading the latest update, iTunes won't load the application to my phone, which was already there and working properly before the update, because it says that the application is not compatible with my current version of OS. I have the most recent version of the OS and am using a 3GS phone. Had no problems before this update. This needs to get fixed, fast!
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A bit disappointed at the moment...
I use GarageBuy and GarageSale on my Mac to do eBay buying and selling and I love the software its intuitive and helpful. So far with GarageBuy for iOS I've been a bit disappointed. The software crashes, did not pull my eBay info for 20 mins, and would continually tell me I had no internet connection on my iPod Touch. When it finally did decide to work I found the search options in the program to be fair lax with no options for refining your search by product type or other such information. Over all when the App did work it worked "well-enough" for me to get things done but I find myself instead using the eBay official App do at least do my buying when I'm not home. I think iwascoding could do SO much better and I have a feeling that we will see this App take the shape of its bigger brother soon.
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Um, sort by bids descending???
The reason I sought this app out was for it's ability to search eBay and sort the results by the number of bids. Unfortunately the default order of such a sort is ascending meaning it starts with 0 bids and makes you scroll/load through all the results to get to the ones with the bid amounts. And of course when you're dealing with queries that have thousands of results it makes this not worth using. Please add the ability to set avenging or descending sorting or reverse the default, which should have been an obvious thing to do from the start.
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Could do better
As with the previous review you need to be able to filter results. Ebay's own app is better but it could be good if you listen to your users!
Bugs
There're lots of bugs to be worked out:
- watch list gets confused
- Updates list with mixed results
Other Comments would include:
- searches are too general.. why not categories?
- To be able to See the various Photos on the watch list and not just on the full page version..
- More Preferences!
I hope they figure it out.
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Not worth the price of your time
Let me qualify this review by saying that I never write reviews so this is rare for me to do, but this app absolutely deserves ZERO STARS! To the reviewer saying that people are too stupid to know how to use this app, I would have to disagree. I signed up and got my eBay token and tried to use it. The problem is this. This program DOES NOT WORK AS A SNIPING PROGRAM. It merely puts your bid in with eBay just as the official eBay eBay app does. Then it tells you either that you have the highest bid or that you've been outbid. Where is this different from the eBay app? If you think this waste of space is a good program, then you have no idea what sniping programs do.
Let me educate you on the matter. A sniping program is a piece of software or a web service that takes your highest desired bid for an item and then waits until the final moments of the auction to place your bid. The benefit being that you avoid getting into a bidding war by not revealing your interest in the item you wish to win. By placing the bid at the last moment automatically, sniping programs save you the trouble of setting a timer and having to "be there" at the end of the auction to snipe it yourself.
Simply put, save yourself a lot of wasted time and effort and steer far clear of this waste of space in the app store. Trust me I wish I had. A root canal might have been preferable.
Let me educate you on the matter. A sniping program is a piece of software or a web service that takes your highest desired bid for an item and then waits until the final moments of the auction to place your bid. The benefit being that you avoid getting into a bidding war by not revealing your interest in the item you wish to win. By placing the bid at the last moment automatically, sniping programs save you the trouble of setting a timer and having to "be there" at the end of the auction to snipe it yourself.
Simply put, save yourself a lot of wasted time and effort and steer far clear of this waste of space in the app store. Trust me I wish I had. A root canal might have been preferable.
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Basic
If you want a basic eBay app for iPhone this might work. It doesn't compare to the eBay mobile app. I expected more from the company that makes GarageSale.
Absolutely useless
This app has a very long way to go. As it stands now, it is utterly useless. Why even bother to waste time with it when the developer obviously hasn't?
