I believe that only one word describes Ebay best…..HUGE! Established n 1995 by one man, Pierre Omidyar, Ebay has exploded into the biggest shopping center in the world. you name it, you can probably find it. Along with the website itself, many people have taken the time to build and put together many utilities to help enhance your experience. I’ve taken the liberty to list many of the FREE one’s I’ve found. There even more that you can pay for, but who wants to pay. Please feel free to comment with any additions that you recommend. I’ll be happy to add them.
Official Ebay Tools
Ebay Toolbar - eBay Toolbar is a free tool download that allows you to link quickly to your preferred eBay locations. You choose the settings and links - eBay Toolbar does all the rest.
Ebay Turbolister - eBay Turbo Lister is a FREE listing tool to help you create professional-looking listings and upload thousands of items in bulk.Try the new eBay Turbo Lister, the next generation listing tool. If you already use Turbo Lister, you?ll appreciate the improvement in speed and reliability that you?ll get with this new version. It?s still free!
Accounting Assistant - Do you use QuickBooks? Need an easier way to export your eBay data to QuickBooks? Save valuable time and easily export eBay and PayPal transaction data as well as information about eBay fees to QuickBooks using Accounting Assistant. It’s fast, easy, and convenient?and, Accounting Assistant works with your existing QuickBooks setup so you can get started right away!
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Third-Party, Hosting and Search Services
Fatfingers.com - Thousands of items on eBay are listed with descriptions containing spelling mistakes.
These items often expire with no bids on them as no-one can find them.
Typohound.com - Many eBay auctions contain typos in the title listing. For example, ‘toshiba’ may be spelt ‘toshia’. This means that when someone searches for ”toshiba’, the misspelled ‘toshia’ is not shown. Thus no bids are placed on the ‘toshia’ auction entry.
Auctiva.com - Auctiva is changing the way individuals and small businesses sell online. As the recognized leader in Online Channel Management (OCM) solutions, Auctiva gives small merchants the power of large corporations by helping them build their brands, merchandise their products, and sell efficiently through eBay. For more information on how Auctiva is revolutionizing small business commerce, see our corporate overview.
Ebay Fee Calculator - Enter your item details and calculate your ebay fees
AuctionPiccies.com - We have listed some of the best Free & Low Cost locations to host your auction images. Whether you sell on eBay or any other online auctions you can reduce the cost of listing by hosting additional pictures elsewhere. Simple to use these cost-effective image hosts can save you time and money!
Supreme Auction - The end of boring looking eBay auctions. Supreme Auction comes down on bland looking auctions and styles your auction for more success with eBay. Free eBay listing solution with free scheduling time, free auction designs, free eBay pictures. Start today into a new dimension of eBay trading today. Sell better with complete new designs and features like video and audio on eBay.
BidRaider eBay Sniper - This is an eBay auction sniper. Your computer does not need to be turned on at the time of the chosen auction. It places your bid automatically, exactly at the set time just before the auction closes. It tracks your auctions and notifies you of the final result.
Pricepirates - Shop smart and save up to 70% by using “Pricepirates”! “Pricepirates” allows you to compare prices in auctions currently running on eBay with offers at Amazon Marketplace and thousands of online stores listed on Shopping.com with just one click.
mceAuction - Just imagine sitting on your couch in the living room with your remote in the hand while you search, browse, bid or buy on eBay?! This is exactly, what mceAuction does. It brings eBay to your living room on your Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition?.
BuyerTools - Buyertools Reminder is a free eBay sniper tool. It allows automatic bidding up to a few seconds before an auction ends. The programm can also establish the Internet connection which is required for auto bidding at a predetermined time and close it down after bidding. The program reminds you of auctions ending soon by alert or free text message. It’s not just a sniper tool, but also a lean organizer that for your personal appointments.
Auctionsieve - The best way to find bargains on eBay! AuctionSieve helps you rapidly filter through the auctions in ebay searches or categories. Especially designed for collectors, the quick, easy to use interface helps you exclude the stuff you’re not interested in and target items of real value.
Toolhaus.org
- This site filters out all the postive feedback left by users and leaves you with only the ugly ones. Extremely useful when you’re considering buying on eBay.
Auction Ad Creator - Create great looking auction ads for FREE in minutes! No
software to download - try our Auction Ad Wizzard now!
Auction LotSnipe - Do you want to win more eBay auctions?? In association with the Auction Stealer Network Auction Lotwatch are pleased to provide our FREE sniping service - Auction LotSnipe.
Auction eStores - This is a new and free auction stores directory and we hope in time it will develop into a useful resource. Initially it will be targeted towards the UK & US markets so please feel free to spread the word.
Auctionfb.com - Display your feedback on your website
Auctionremind - Automated e-mail searches
AuctionPixie - AuctionPixie’s automatic feedback tool is a service that automates the process of leaving feedback on eBay and simplifies your feedback management.
PayPal Tools
PayPal Send Money(Firefox Extension) - The PayPal Send Money extension provides a quick way to send money to anyone with an email address. Enter the recipient’s email address and the extension opens a quick link to PayPal’s Website Payments Standard checkout page so you can log in and make a quick payment to a friend.
Firefox Extensions
ShortShip Pro - Adds realtime sorting of eBay listings by total+shipping, and so much more! Doing everything we can to make eBay a better place to shop!
eBay Blog This - eBay Blog This enables easy blogging on eBay Blogs (http://blogs.ebay.com). Once downloaded, you will be able to select content from any webpage, right click it, and choose the “Blog This” option! The eBay Blog This tool will automatically insert the content, links and quotes into your blog posts.
eBay Ends 0.2.6 - Shows the ends of your watching bids in my eBay -> watching directly under the normal display in the page. Support for custom timeformat and ebay.it is added!
Ebay Negs! 0.6 - Displays all the Negative Feedback an eBay user has received via right-click or Tools menu.
Biet-O-Zilla 0.4.6 - Biet-O-Zilla allows to make last minute bids on ebay. This is more or less a port of Biet-O-matic see (http://bom.sourceforge.net/)
PayPal Send Money - The PayPal Send Money extension provides a quick way to send money to anyone with an email address. Enter the recipient’s email address and the extension opens a quick link to PayPal’s Website Payments Standard checkout page so you can log in and make a quick payment to a friend.
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November 28th, 2006 18:07
Need help, Anyone else using iSale for ebay?
I thought I had moderate working knowledge of computers but this program has me stumped. Has anyone successfully used the FTP to load pics onto ebay through iSale from photobucket. How did your link look?
FTP server- ???
Picture path- ????
HTTP Picture path- ???
Im coming up empty here and dont have a clue why the pics arent uploading. Any help appreciated. Just point me to the right direction please.
March 24th, 2007 23:19
I just came across your blog and thought I would mention AuctionPixie, its a website that offers tools for eBay such as Automatic Feedback, free Flash based scrolling gallery, misspelled item finder, etc.
Its pretty good and deserves to be on your list; anyway, you can find it here: http://www.auctionpixie.co.uk
February 4th, 2009 00:35
Thank for the link to FF extension. Though those are old version, but it still useful for me because I prefer to use FF old version.