eBay® for Dummies®, 6th Edition

Chapter 20. Ten (or So) Programs and Services to Ease Your Way on eB

In This Chapter

• Auctiva

• InkFrog

• Vendio and Vendio Stores

• BuyItSellIt Stores

• Fast Photo

• BidRobot

• Auction Wizard 2000

• Shooting Star

• eBay's Turbo Lister, Selling Manager, and more

Ready to take your sales to the next level? Are you looking for snappy-looking text or fancy layouts to make your auctions scream, "Buy me!"? Need to slip in a bid in the middle of the night without losing sleep? If so, here's a list of ten (or so) programs and services to help put your auctions ahead of the pack and make your bidding life easier. In this chapter I recommend some reliable companies, and many of them offer free solutions!

As online sales grow in popularity, software developers are constantly upgrading and developing new auction and selling software to meet eBay's changes. Many of these programs even look for new versions of themselves — and update themselves as you start them. (Aladdin never had things so good.)

Tip

You absolutely don't have to use any of these programs or services to run eBay sales successfully. However, when you're running more than several auctions a week, the addition of a "helper" makes things go ever so much smoother (especially if it's free or very low cost).

A large amount of companies out there are offering online management service and offline programs. (Let's face it, as long as people will pay they will be happy to have something to sell you.) I can't cover each and every one, so the software that I mention ...