because of a scheduled maintenance downtime, uploading new auction images to GarageSale’s Free Image Server will not be available for you during the following time period:

Auction images uploaded prior to that time period are not affected. These images will be served from a fail-over machine.

Our primary server’s hosting provider is moving its datacenter to a new building in a different city. We are using the opportunity to put additional hard drives into the server.

If you need to start auctions during the maintenance period, we suggest you configure GarageSale to use a different image hosting option or to perform the image upload prior to the downtime by submitting the auction to eBay using eBay’s scheduling option.

This temporary outage will effect GarageSale, GarageSale Basic, GarageSale HD on iPad, and GarageSale Touch on iPhone – but only if they are set to use GarageSale’s Free Image server for image storage.

We are sorry for any inconveniences this causes for you.

Version 1.1 of GarageSale Touch, our auction listing application for the iPhone, has just been approved by Apple and is available from the iTunes AppStore. The new release supports eBay’s auction scheduler, letting you submit an auction to eBay before its actual start time. Users can now select which image they want to use as Gallery image for an auction.

GarageSale touch now displays the number of watchers and page views for tracked auctions. We also fixed bugs related to specifying item attributes in certain categories and exporting auctions to the desktop version of GarageSale.

Fire up your copy of iTunes to download the update right away.

Direct link to the interview (MP3)

eBay Radio on iTunes

Being a Certified Provider means that we were able to demonstrate a certain level of expertise and experience in the eBay’s technologies and marketplace. And that wasn’t easy to accomplish.

Not only are we the first company with a Mac desktop application to be allowed in the Certified Provider Program – we are also the first non-US based company carrying this title.

We’d like to thank all GarageSale users who made this possible with their testimonials and success stories.

All of GarageSale’s 136 multi-layout auction designs now support eBay’s new ‘View Item’ page, which will be rolled out to most buyers in mid-June. Every single design was tweaked to ensure your items look perfect after eBay switches to the new design in all major web browsers.

We also updated GarageSale’s built-in editor to match eBay’s redesigned interface. You can see it in action in our updated GarageSale Basics Tutorial.

Also new is support for Twitter. GarageSale can now automatically update your Twitter status when you post items to eBay.

You can see what people are selling with GarageSale by searching Twitter for the #garagesale hashtag.

The new version automatically archives web pages of ended auctions. You can still view your items after eBay’s 60 day expiration period.

When revising running auctions, you can now choose which parts of your auctions to revise. This gives you you the chance to revise parts of your auction when eBay’s policy forbids updating the whole auction.

The complete release notes are available at the GarageSale wiki.

GarageSale 5.3 is a free update to all registered user of version 4 or 5. Updates from version 3 are available at USD 14.99 from Kagi.

Get two category defining Mac products for the price of one:

A full license for GarageSale, our leading eBay client for the Mac, is now included with qualified EyeTV products from Elgato, maker of the world’s leading TV software for the Mac.

Why settle for less than the best? Act now and save with EyeTV and GarageSale!

Today we released a significantly improved version of GaragePay, our Mac OS X desktop client for the eBay’s PayPal service.

GaragePay 1.5 lets you send money without logging into the PayPal website. You can even refund received payments with just a few clicks – either fully or partially.

The new version displays your accounts balance in all available currencies and automatically computes income and fees for your smart groups.

GaragePay 1.5 is a free update for all owners of previous versions of GaragePay.

That’s the first time the number of 400.000 items has been exceeded in a single month since we released GarageSale 1.0 almost 5 years ago.

Needless to say that we as Mac developers are excited about these numbers. We’d like to thank all GarageSale users for their confidence in our software.

Expect to hear from us again once we tackled the 500k limit!