equinux iSale (Mac)

Format: CD-ROM List Price: $39.99 Our Price: $29.99 Your Save: $ 10.00 ( 25% ) Availability: N/A Average Customer Rating:

Features: Use your Apple iSight webcam to take pictures of objects you want to sell on eBay
Keep an overview of the current auction status more easily
Prepare your auction offline, uploading it when you're ready
Easy and intuitive to use, for simpler sales and better returns
Fully eBay certified - gain official access to the eBay online system, with a connection you can trust


Editorial Reviews:

iSale is an eBay helper utility for Mac OS X that enables users to make and manage their online auction effectcively. iSale integrates with Apple technology; Use iPhoto to ready auction photos for upload and more. Use it to manage your own auctions on the world's most popular auction service.




Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating:
Summary: The new release (4.1) is excellent!
Comment: This is great software from a great group - iSale is easy to use, very powerful & very 'Mac' like, which is terrific. It has all the features that I can think of - if you're truly a 'powerseller' maybe this doesn't have everything you need, I don't know. If you're a regular joe looking to make selling things on eBay easier and slicker - this is the software for you!

Customer Rating:
Summary: iSale or not to iSale (not)
Comment: I goofed up and purchased a copy also not know ing the limits I need the program to work on 2 computers also. I got it any way. Then to my suprise after spending the 39.00 for version 3.3, I could not upgrade to the pro pack with out spending another 19.95 to upgrade to Version 4.0 the another 24.95 to upgrade to a propack. What a Rip $84.85 to get what I need. I am going to try GarageSale.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Not the greatest
Comment: Barely worth the money. I've never used PC based ebay software, so I cannot compare it to that. iSale is clunky, it's developers are in Germany, and it seems all the German companies I have to deal with love to ignore emails. It has taken iSale 3 days or more to answer a simple question. You can't call, because its international and a different time zone. Its a bit confusing to install and use, such as being asked a yes or no question, then your button options have nothing to do with yes or no. The widget info is never the same as the actual info. It won't see a bid or won't detect watchers. The main reason I got it, which it suffices for, is I can input partial bits of info on items over a period of time before I decide to list it, and it writes the html for me of text size and color. It has refused to list sometimes, giving me an error message with no rhyme or reason, then I have to go back to ebay and list through them. It also gives wrong information when listing more than one photo, it will not add the cost of the extra photos, its only after it is listed that you see how much it really cost to list. There is no indication of your seller account fee amount when you list either.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice to look at but useless as a serious tool
Comment: This app has a very nice looking interface and is useful for light use. It's functionality is elementary, it lacks power and flexibility, and it is relatively expensive (it's competitor GarageSale, while not as flashy, costs $24.99). As previous reviews have stated, you can't edit a running auction from within the applications and you have to go to eBay's site.

The templates aren't very flexible and don't handle cases where you put more text into the title or short description fields than iSale would like you to (you end up with gaps in the graphics). If you add some photos to the templates make sure you put them where you want them the first time because you can't move them around (you'll have to delete them and then re-add them). Want to customize a template so that some text appeares in iSale's predefined text areas each time you use the template (such as shipping info or auction terms)? Forget it, iSale ignores the text so that you have to add it to each auction manually.

I also various problems submitting auctions and the error messages gave me very little help in determining the problem. The documentation is a PDF file that doesn't really go beyond basic information.

There are many more features lacking than I have stated here. I regret purchasing this softare and I don't recommend it as a serious tool.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Lipstick on a Chicken
Comment: All right, eBay's interface just keeps getting clunkier and clunkier. But don't think iSale is going to keep you from having to learn how to deal directly with eBay. Sure, for the simplest of auctions, you can *learn* the iSale interface instead of eBay's. It's prettier and did win an Apple *Design* award, but when it comes to full-fledged functionality it falls flat. In particular, there is utterly no support for making revisions to a running ad. If you're lucky, you can go to eBay, learn how to edit there, and make changes. But don't count on it if you've taken "advantage" of iSale's style sheets. They just add to the problem. iSale submits listings according to eBay's Application Programming Interface (API) in XML, and if you can't directly edit XML you're up the creek. One of my ads slipped past iSale and got accepted by eBay even though the Item Condition field was null. From that point on I could edit NOTHING (not even the Condition) and eBay finally allowed me to cancel the ad for credit.

iSale has fuzzed up and unwantedly cropped photos I entered using their templates. It saves photos to its own area in .Mac and under indecipherable file names. You'd need to be the programmer to untangle the mess it can make of a "beautiful" ad.

Technical Details

Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Aspyr
EAN: 0618870110509
ESRB Age Rating: Rating Pending
Feature: Use your Apple iSight webcam to take pictures of objects you want to sell on eBay
Format: CD-ROM
Label: ASPYR
Manufacturer: ASPYR
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: ASPYR
Release Date: 2005-05-09
Studio: ASPYR