GarageSale 4 hits the streets!
GarageSale 4 is now shipping. We don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call this “The most extensive update in GarageSale history!“. Read on to find out why we think so:
Greatly improved interface
We invested a lot of effort in making sure the interface harmonizes perfectly with the world of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) - while still offering a familiar experience to long-time GarageSalers. The distinct modes for auctions and template have been unified into a single view where each item is accessible with a single click.
Preview editing
Now edit your auctions without ever leaving preview mode. This includes not only the title, description, and images - you can also specify categories and set item attributes there too. You never have to switch between the auction edit and preview modes again!
Our updated GarageSale tutorial movie should give you an idea of how editing in preview mode feels like.
If you’ve been using custom auction designs in GarageSale, you’ll be delighted to hear that your existing designs will get all theses features ‘for free’ - no code tweaking required. (And yes, you can still edit templates the traditional way if you prefer.)
Faster auction uploads
Since most new Macs ship with multiple CPUs, it only made sense for us to rewrite GarageSale’s auction upload engine from scratch to take advantage of this. GarageSale will now upload auctions and images concurrently.
Graphical auction scheduling
GarageSale’s built-in auction scheduler has grown up. Auctions can now be scheduled with drag-and-drop - just like you’re used to from your favorite calendar application.
Improved eBay messaging
With past versions of GarageSale you could send messages to buyers or view incoming messages via eBay’s messaging system. We’ve now taken this one step further: You can reply to incoming questions from within the application itself. And whether or not a question has been answered is synchronized over multiple copies of GarageSale, making this a killer feature for small businesses.
PayPal integration
GarageSale 4 can monitor multiple PayPal accounts for incoming payments. See your accounts history with a single click instead of waiting for PayPal’s web page to load.
Even more auction designs
As if the number of auction themes wasn’t already overwhelming, our design team has been busy adding 8 new ones for GarageSale 4. As usual, each encompasses multiple layouts - actually making it 20 different designs. You can see why we stopped counting the number of possible design variants a long time ago.
For more information please visit the GarageSale homepage.
As with previous versions you’re welcome to try before you buy GarageSale 4: Download GarageSale right now and post three auctions to eBay. If you like what you see you can purchase a license for USD/EUR 29.99. (If you already own a license for GarageSale you can upgrade for just USD/EUR 14.99.)
Will you be attending MacWorld 2008? We’d love to give you a first-hand demonstration of GarageSale’s amazing new features at our booth #2544. Be sure to ask us about the special show offer for MacWorld attendees.
January 19th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
This is a great piece of software for the mac but I have a suggestion. I have recently decided to sell 100+ DVDs and CDs on ebay. I could not be bothered to type out all the details so I installed Delicious Library. I now have all the images and details nicely catalogued but it’s going to be a nightmare to put them into Garage Sale. It would be great to have some way of importing DVD, CD, book detail from Delicous Library into Garage Sale.
The two apps are completely separate but they both offer online selling tools.
Hmmm I think a trick is being here.
With these two apps working together my Mac would be a beast indeed - Scan my items via the inbuilt isight then sell them online with all the details automatically done.
January 20th, 2008 at 5:43 am
–> Hi siege,
Thanks for your feedback!
Did you already try the “import from Delicious Library” command in GarageSale’s “File” menu?
Kind regards, Kristian
January 21st, 2008 at 11:07 am
Dear Sirs,
I bought a GarageSale software in december. In the end of the year my mac broke down. For some reason, it wasn’t possible to save any files. My problem is now to get the GarageSale again.
Could you check my details in your account to get a version of GarageSale without paying again???
Thanks for effort
Regards
Tibor Simai
January 21st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
–> Hi Tibor,
I just send you your license code for GarageSale 4.0.
On our website you’ll also find a Lost&Found section and a contact form:
http://www.iwascoding.com/contact.php
If you need further assistance please let me know.
Kind regards, Kristian
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:24 am
I had enjoyed garage sale so much for about three years until my computer with windows blew up. My grand son who was in college used this one until my old HP with windows on it blew up. Then this one went on the blink. It took me forever to get it worked on, but the tech told me I wouldn’t be able to get a lot of my programs. Don’t know why or what he did with them. I found Garage somewhere in the back of this one, but it will not let me write on this, but was delighted it was here, but found I could not write in it. I have found it again, but it will not work I now have none I can use, but have downloaded this one. Perhaps it will work like it used to. Thank you for Garage Sale. Its great!
Mimi Lathan
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:44 am
I downloaded the demo, but I can only view the application on my user account, my wife can load the app, but nothing happens on her account. Is this normal??
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I just paid $30 for this in October. Do I have to pay another $15 after only 3 months?
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:36 am
–> Hi Thomas,
did you already visit the GarageSale website?:
“Updates from previous versions are free for users who purchased GarageSale on or after October 1st, 2007.”
Hope this helps,
kind regards, Kristian
January 26th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I paid for the upgrade, and I like it for creating auctions. But, I’ve got five auctions ready to go, and when I try to start one, I get a WebDAV error that my ID and password don’t match. WTF?
January 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Hi,
I bought GarageSale back in May, and it’s worked well, with one exception: Relisting of multiple auctions. I don’t see any mention of that in this new version. Has that been added, or is it still a pending feature, as noted in the Yahoo group some time ago?
Thanks!
Bob M.
January 28th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Seems that putting images on the iwascoding Web site doesn’t work. You have to use your own server or eBay’s.
No help in the documentation or help file. But they say they’re working on a fix.
January 28th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Does anybody know why I’m getting this error message when listing auctions?
“(stop sign) Cannot put files: file transfer buffer has not been allocated. ”
I am hosting my images on my own FTP site which works fine (tested)
If I restart GS sometimes this error will clear.
Also, the “events” interface is weird, I cannot get scheduled events to run without eBay telling me I need to pay them with a credit card.
Any ideas?
January 31st, 2008 at 9:40 pm
hi,
I don’t know where else to post for a help issue. I have version 3.4.2 (latest v3) and the schedule feature doesn’t work. I set the ebay auction to start at 4:40pm PST, and it ended up starting at 1am PST! I double checked the listing, and I also looked at my preferences. I’m correctly in CA. What gives? And where do I email support questions?
February 1st, 2008 at 9:44 pm
OMG THIS IS SO GOOD !!!!! I LOVE IT I HAVE 3.0 BOXED !!!! WHERE IS MY DARN PASSWORD TIME IS MONEY !!!! I JUST PAID THROUGH THE KASI THING !!!! HELP !!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! I LOVE THIS IT ROCKS!!!!!
February 1st, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I’m currently using the demo version whilst deciding whether or not to pay for an upgrade. So far, I’m about as unimpressed as I was with the version I paid full price for (which by the way wouldn’t even upgrade to the latest 3.4 despite it being a legitimate upgrade for the version I’d paid for - just kept getting an error message with ‘try later’). Now, I find that when I downloaded 4.0 demo, I’ve lost functionality for the original version leaving me, as far as I can tell, with nothing for my money if I opt not to upgrade to this version.
As there is absolutely NO help file anywhere for version 4.0, it’s impossible to find out about anything except via the tutorial video which is woefully inadequate. Opening Garagesale itself as well as anything within Garagesale is so slow, it’s like being back on dial-up; the templates are awful insomuch as they’re extremely difficult to customise and most of them squash the listing into much less space than available on eBay’s interface; and, having just relisted the first Garagesale 4.0 auction I submitted, I find there is no way I can get it to show up in Garagesale! Perhaps if there had been some sort of help menu available, I might have been able to discover some way of relisting via Garagesale, but as the only help available is for v3.4 (which I couldn’t even upgrade to, from v3.0), and as it is certainly not obvious from the drop-down menus and general interface, assuming that is that there IS a way to do so, Garagesale is now completely useless to me for this auction - I tried ‘importing’ the auction from eBay, but that didn’t work either! In addition, the first time ’round with this auction, even after I had sold 2 of the 5 items available, Garagesale was showing no activity in either the ‘information’ or the ‘transactions’ section of the ‘Inspector’ - it took ages to catch up with the activity that had taken place.
What I’d like to know is whether I can at least get my original version back (inadequate as that was) once the demo expires - I did after all pay good money for that one and didn’t expect to have to sacrifice that and be backed into a corner should I opt to ‘trial’ the new version. I actually would’ve been prepared to fork out for the upgrade if it had been an improvement on my earlier version, but no way on the performance so far!!
February 2nd, 2008 at 7:32 am
This is an amazing software which should be priced at $100 easily. no joke
thank you iwascoding
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I love GarageSale but am having some trouble with the demo upgrade. I didn’t know it cost money and that this was a demo. How can I get the other version back? I’d like to be able to decide for myself whether to buy the upgrade. A lot of the features don’t seem to work, including my widget (which never refreshes).
I need to upload multiple auctions tomorrow (Sunday) night and can’t have can’t have the process stopped after 3 freebies upload. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Also, there is a gray box at the bottom of the auction template in preview mode that says “drop zone” for an additional image. I sure hope this is for editing purposes only and that this doesn’t appear in the actual auction?
thanks.
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I went ahead and purchased the update in order to avoid risk of delays uploading my new auctions (as I can’t locate original version). But I’m still hesitant to start auctions b/c of the grey “drop zone” box for adding image that shows up in preview mode. I’d be very grateful if you could get back to me just on that one point.
Thanks a lot.
February 2nd, 2008 at 7:03 pm
SM, not sure if this is too late for you but, it it’s any help, I had the same dilemma when I submitted my auction with GS 4.0. The grey dropzone is very off-putting, particularly when you’re only wanting to place 1 photo. Like you, I was concerned that it would show on the listing - it didn’t, but it did seem to impact on the placement of the 1 photo I did use. That photo got squeezed up into the top right hand corner of the listing interface, not at all where I wanted it to be. It actually also affected the formatting, so that things that had previously been centred were skewed to 1 side, and the photo itself was smaller than it needed to be. I spent an inordinate amount of time fiddling with the photo I used, trying to get it sitting where I wanted it & then trying everything I could think of to get rid of the dropzone box out of concern that it would show in the listing, as well as wanting it gone so that the placement of the ONE photo I wanted to use could be adusted. At the end of all this effort, the listing ended up looking less than professional. Another disappointing aspect of the software.
February 2nd, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I paid the money for my upgrade !!! and still have not received my password is does it matter that i used that kaji site ? help!!!
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I had 2 problems with the new version:
1. It did not let me schedule a series of multiple auctions as the warning I usually receive from eBay was not able to be bypassed as in the previous version
2. All my eBay store categories were replaced by numbers so I was not able to place any of my items in the correct store category.
Please clear these items up ASAP. I have already contacted your help line for assistance on these issues.
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Is there anyone out there please help I would love to use my new upgrade that I just paid for !!!!
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:51 am
@all: You’ll find a contact form on our website here: http://www.iwascoding.com/contact.php
There’s also a very active user group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GarageSale_Users/
Hope this helps,
kind regards, Kristian
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:08 am
Please put the inspector for transactions back on the right of the page NOT AS A FLOATING BAR. this is horrid.
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:04 am
Hi Embeen,
What you’re describing is a disaster. What design template were you using? When I come to this website and preview the design templates through the link here, I note some of them recommend maximum photo sizes. That could mean if photos exceed recommendation, they are misshapen. There should be a warning on our actual editing template warning about that, or a preferences option to have Garagesale automatically resize images if distortion is a risk.
I am trying to use the ‘decent’ template with images at the bottom. Mathias did reply to me from the email help desk re the gray box, and said what you did—that it will disappear.
Have you gotten any help w/the problem you describe?
One thing about the new version is that I do really like how we can edit right in the preview mode. I’m a little concerned about Eliseo’s comment, too, re scheduling multiple auctions…
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:08 am
Embeen,
Also, maybe it also has to do with image placement option (top, bottom, upper left, etc.)?
SM
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:26 am
I heard from Mathias. He says the aspect ratio of the images has to be 3:4 or 4:3. I know that means height-width ratio but do not see where to control that in my photoshop or iphoto programs. My photoshop pixel aspect ratio is set to square (?). If an image is uploaded at, say, 1″ x 8″ then obviously that’s off ratio but I can’t see how to control if if the imbalance is not immediately obvious. Also, I forgot to ask if the distortion will be visible in the preview mode or only once the auction is uploaded.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
new problems—is anyone else having these/found a solution?
- listing in preview will look fine one minute and then the next text is cut off along edges (for example in Decent template). I haven’t added any large images or done anything to blow the margin.
-when I switch completed auction template to another design (like decent to glossy, e.g.), HTML coding changes or disappears. For example, where I had used three different colors to distinguish type, text inexplicably reverted to all one color.
-in three of my auction templates all work was lost, no reason. I completed the template and moved on to the next as always and when I returned to double check completed template, my work was gone. After triple checking (because it continued to occur) to make sure it was the program and not me, I began doing command-s every few seconds to save my work.
Is anyone else having this experience?
February 5th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I too had my original version, purchased just last May, involuntarily replaced with the newest version, and now it’s unregistered. That’s really not cool. I see very little reason to pay another 50% for a product I’ve had less than a year, and I’d like to not have an upgrade foisted on me. I’m redownloading the 3.4.2 version as I type with the hope that the ‘demo’ version hasn’t screwed up my auctions.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Bob, I’ve just trawled around this site & found that the ‘older versions’ are still available for d/l. I downloaded the previous version & re-entered my original unlock code & I’m now back to a licensed version without being further out of pocket. Hope you’re able to do the same. Here’s the link:
http://www.iwascoding.com/GarageSale/older_versions.php
February 6th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Oops, just realised that you’d already found that d/l!
February 7th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
What if you can’t find your original box & unlock code? I didn’t realize that by downloading the demo, I’d be screwing myself out of being able to use 3.4 - which has worked just fine for me for a long time - unless I wanted to pony up the additional $15. This sucks. I redownloaded 3.4 and thought everything was fine, but even that only allowed me to list 3 “trial” listings before asking for my license. Shouldn’t that info automatically transfer over? Is there anything I can do to get my previous version back without the unlock code? Or am I completely S.O.L. now thanks to this “demo”?
February 7th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Dan, try emailing as per the link provided in Kristian’s post above: http://www.iwascoding.com/contact.php
Maybe if you provide your details, it will be possible to resurrect your unlock code. Good luck though … I emailed days ago asking about reverting to my previous version, and ultimately found the solution myself while waiting for a reply that still hasn’t come.
February 7th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Hi embeen,
I searched our support system for a question from your e-mail account, but couldn’t find anything. To what e-mail address did you write to for support?
February 7th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
OK, I take back that the reply hasn’t come - just received it now including link provided to the previous versions.
February 8th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I have been emailing and emailing, no reply. Tried via the form on the support web page too. Still nothing. Anybody still alive?
February 8th, 2008 at 8:37 am
I have just installed version 4 of garagesale. Is just my impression or is not possible to add multiple auctions at once in one event? is possible that I have to put dozens of auctions one by one in a new event? nd what about if one auction is inserted for error? it seems not possible to remove it. Thx, Antonio
February 8th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Hi Michael,
I can see two support request from you in our support queue. One is 5 hours and one is 17 hours old. Please be a little patient. Our support staff is working as hard as they can, but they cannot answer every single ticket within minutes.
February 8th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Hi Antonio,
there is a way to add multiple auctions to an event: Select all the templates with either the shift or apple key pressed and press the New Event button in the toolbar. This should give you a new event with all the selected templates added.
February 8th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I appreciate that, but some form of communication would help to at least know the ticket was received. Especially when this is my wife’s income and she can’t work…
February 8th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Hi Michael,
I promoted your tickets to the top of the queue. You should have received an answer by now.
February 8th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Got it! I appreciate the help. And the wife is extremely happy. Thanks.
February 9th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I’m continuing to lose work when working in the preview mode. Not only is it happening when I fail to continually hit save but also when I *do* save the work and return to the program. In fact, it is very arbitrary and data entry plus formatting changes in multiple template.
I created 12 detailed auction listings—each one a collectible book requiring a lot of research and translation from native language—saved, closed, and opened GS today to find that text for ALL TWELVE has been replaced with the text from one template. The work is all gone. I’ve been asking CS for help since last week on the lost information problem and have not received any response.
Great that the old version can be downloaded but I spend hours a day working on listings and if I’m going to have to transfer all the work I’ve done this past week from new version to the old, I’d just as soon transfer it to another listing service altogether. I’ve gone from slightly confused but optimistic to very unhappy. This is a product I’ve always depended on to earn a living with auctions and I can’t afford another week losing data with no response from CSR. I’d also appreciate a refund of my $14.95, which I’ll gladly pay again if the version is ever fixed.
I can totally understand glitches in a new version and like I said, I’ve always been very grateful for this program, but to have something like this ignored is really hard to understand.
I also cannot empty the trash in new or old version and was advised to upload the applications support file so GS can review it but even the compressed file is 500MB. Whenever I try to empty trash the computer spools and then crashes. I spent 8 hours letting the 500MB “upload” but it didn’t transfer and I haven’t heard back from customer service since advising them that upload didn’t work.
This is how I earn an income.
February 9th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Adding this comment to say that I’m not a novice and have been selling on ebay for over ten years, using Garage Sale since it was released, and the problems I’m describing aren’t a result of some kind of inexperience or tech mistakes on my end.
February 9th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Hi,
I just bought a brand new-packaged version of GrageSale.
When I try to install it I get the question: “Please enter your user name and code below”
I do just that (my name plus the registration code that came with my instructions packet) and I get the following INSULTING reply:
PLEASE SUPPORT MACINTOSH SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS BY ACTUALLY BUYING A SERIAL NUMBER.
then nothing.
what GIVES ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
February 9th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
OK, I think I got it now. The registration code found on the back of the packet is used to get yet ANOTHER code from the GrageSale site. YOU MUST CLICK “PURCHASE” next to TRY OUT mode in order to get there. What confusing way to get you going! ? eh ? Must click PURCHASE even as you ALREADY purchased your own CD-ROM copy ? Confusing….
February 9th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Wish me luck !
February 9th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I strongly advise against using this version. It was distributed for sale without adequate testing. I am now finding that when I go to stored auctions (even ones whose template I created some time ago), the date is GONE—the templates are EMPTY. Much of my work has simply disappeared. There is no response from customer service, no acknowledgment of the problem or an intention to repair, no offer to help me out.
I have been a power seller on ebay and this is my income. To lose this amount of work is really shattering for me. To write to customer service about this problem for a week straight and receive no response shows me that the designers are not operating on good faith.
A problem like this needs to be looked into immediately. Obviously I wouldn’t be the only client experiencing it, even if I’m the only one posting on this forum about it.
It’s at a point where the program has prevented me from listing and, worse, deleted literally weeks worth of work. It takes me up to an hour to prepare one book listing because of the detailed description, and that doesn’t count the research time.
Garage sale—this is the worst customer service I’ve ever experienced. Thanks so much for totally screwing up my income and not even having the decency to look into the glitch.
February 10th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I have not had any big troubles with this new version,yet. I do have a complaint though, I really miss the customizable “add image” button. I often use 40-60 images in my auctions and having my image source preset with this button was a blessing. I now must click twice to do the same task done before with 1 click. No big deal for 2-3 images but nonsense with 50-60! PLEASE BRING BACK THE ADD IMAGE BUTTON!!!!!! Thanks Kristian, Fred
February 11th, 2008 at 6:24 am
SGM,
I’m sorry to hear that you are having problems with our software. Our support stuff is already trying to help you as good as they can.
Please try to be just with your criticism. Our support has already responded to you at the time you left your first comment, how could you have otherwise received details for uploading your auction library to our server.
February 11th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Hi Fred,
Where do you import your images from? You can select multiple images at once by holding down the shift key in the panel you use to import image files.
February 12th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Hello,
I purchased GarageSale Version 4, and they were supposed to send me the unlock code but never did.
Anyway, I actually like Version 3 more, (having tried the demo for Version 4) so I’d like my money back please.
February 13th, 2008 at 8:23 am
After using the application for one day and experiencing a ton of costly problems, I have to say that I am disappointed.
1. My “templates’ would crash at the last minute without saving any information that I typed in.
2. After “successfully” posting an auction to eBay, which looked perfect in GarageSale, I was shocked to get a message for 2 auctions asking me to include some details. NOTHING but the titles posted in eBay. This caused me to suspend 2 auctions, costing me $22.
3. In the morning hoping to check my auctions, I find that I cannot open the application at all. Re-installing it is not solving my problem. It just freezes at start-up and nothing happens.
I hope these problems can be resolved somehow very soon as I bought it reading the more favorable reviews over iSale. Thanks.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Wow. Seems like the GarageSale team is in a bit of hot water. I’ve been using their program for about 2-3 years and it’s been fantastic. Met them at MacWorld a couple times, and they’re genuine, friendly people. I trust that these issues will be resolved–but I’m wondering (since I’ve had no problems myself and I just started using GS 4)–could some of these issues be hard drive problems and not software based? When I start having weird issues, I always give the drives a tuneup and if they seem sketchy, I replace them. Just a thought.
Best of luck to everyone. I’m very interested in any issues with GarageSale because I’ve come to depend on it as a PowerSeller.
February 16th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Hi I also tried the demo thinking it was just another update and was shocked when I was told “demo up & purchase”. I can’t get the old version back. I just purchased it in Oct. I have tried to get a new license but it was never emailed as it said it would. I have emailed support 2 times with NO response. HORRIBLE customer service. I have really enjoyed Garage Sale and have even recommended it to friends that have also purchased it. I am VERY disappointed. I really count on this and have 30 auctions ready to be listed that are just sitting there. Does anyone know how to reach these people???? HELP?!?!
February 17th, 2008 at 4:26 am
Nice upgrade to the version 3.x, but the upgrade-price is a ‘little’ too steep.
February 17th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Christina Bos:
You can download GarageSale 3.4.2. from the Older Versions section from the GarageSale website.
I searched our support system and found two inquires from you, aged 8 and 4 days. Both have been answered by our support staff within a few hours. Please check your spam filters for the responses.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Hi, Thanks for the response. I did check my spam and there is nothing there. I have requested an upgrade on my license. It said it was already upgraded, but garage sale was still telling me to buy the new version. I would love to download from the older versions. Where on the website is it??
February 19th, 2008 at 8:59 am
I left an alternate email address. I am eligible for the free update. It seems like all my issues can be resolved if I can just get my license updated. It seemed like I was able to get the “old” version back, but I listed 3 auctions and again was told demo was expired and purchase.
March 1st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Having paid for Garagesale and having been pleased with how it worked and having used it on those occasions when I needed to sell some bits and pieces, I started up GarageSale the other day to list a few more things to be told an update was available. I downloaded this in good faith, but now find that I have upgraded to version 4 and must pay for this. The previous version did everything I needed it to, and there was no warning in the ‘update available’ dialogue that I was not entitled to do this for free. I have tried to reinstall version 3, but am told that my database is from a later version.
Had I been told that the update needed to be paid for I could have made a decision whether or not to pay for it. As it was, it was presented as an update with no warning that downloading it would mean that I couldn’t continue to use the previous version.
Frankly I feel robbed - even Microsoft doesn’t break its software if you don’t upgrade. You’re a thief, my friend. Good luck in robbing other innocent users of your software. I’ll be going elsewhere.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:07 am
Hi Mike,
I’m sorry to hear that you had a frustrating experience with our software. You probably overlooked the fact that GarageSale 4 is a paid upgrade. We state this in bold letters in the window notifying you about the update.
If you want to keep using version 3.4.3 instead, you can download it from the ‘Older versions’ section of the GarageSale website at http://www.iwascoding.com/GarageSale. It has the same database format as version 4, so you don’t loose anything by downgrading.
Hope this gets you going again,
Ilja
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
jimsotonna…
jimsotonna dropped by…
March 4th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I need to say, the support at iwascoding is excellent. I have used them 3 times so far with quick responses. I have been using Garagesale since it first launched. Version 4 is ok but I hate the floating inspector. It pops right over my work so it needs to be moved. You have many templates but very little if no green. I would love to see some pretty sage greens and something for jewelry and kitchenware. I swear you guys cant see green and have no gals designing those templates. : )
March 9th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
A useful upgrade and well worth the modest upgrade fee. My only criticisms are that the upgrade process doesn’t mention you’ll need to pay a small fee to use the new features as some posters here have already mentioned.. and the drop-zone isn’t mentioned in the help notes? Although people DO get a choice as whether to upgrade it would be good it might be better to take people to a web page that explained the new features and then have a ‘click here to agree to upgrade’ button and mention how to downgrade again.
Perhaps a little petty but as we’ve seen from some of the postings above people sometimes don’t bother to read instructions and just ’shoot from the hip’ in comment areas such as this one .
Anyway, thanks for such a brilliant piece of software, I don’t use eBay all that often but my guess is it’s made me an extra £500 on my listings so far and I can’t even begin to think how much time it’s saved me!
April 14th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Hello,
I just downloaded the new version and I only have two complaints….
The first is I cannot seem to figure out how to schedule items as easy as the old version.
The second is GarageSale is trying to make me repurchase the software that I already purchased…Is this because of the new update?
Other than that, great product.
Thanks.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:32 am
I have to agree with many of the comments above good and bad:
1. To suggest that it is clear to the user that this is a paid upgrade is simply not true, it is not clear. I like many other updated before becoming aware that the upgrade was not free.
2. What was the rush in releasing this upgrade, is it ready? Not only does it feel less intuitive than the previous release, in the last 2 hours I have had the spinning ball twice, simply creating a new auction, forcing me to quit the program. However…
3. The contact support has been very good.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:05 am
Hello! I was wondering if you can integrate watermarking auction images into garagesale. In my opinion its good to use against image thiefs plus the people looking at your ebay auction recognize that its your own photo.
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:31 am
Hi Mathias, Ilja
I just upgarade and spent the $15. No problem. However it was not clear to me that I needed to pay.
Your support and help has always been excellent with version 3 I don’t see why that won’t be the same.
Is this Version fully compatable with Mac OS 10.4.10?
is there a place that explains the work arounds for the bugs all in one place untill you have everything ironed out ?
Best
Joseph
Groovey Records