We just released GarageSale 3.4, a highly recommended update for all users already running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (but there is no reason to skip this update for Tiger users, either).

GarageSale 3.4 add support eBay’s new ‘Community Driven’ item specifics system, which lets you add your own attributes to your listing instead of having to stick with the ones eBay’s old system presented you (Manual Link).

We also added to ability to specify deposit settings per auction when selling cars on eBay Motors US. ( Manual Link).

This version also fixes a serious issue with Mac OS X Leopard and GarageSale’s scheduler.

For a complete list of changes, please see GarageSale’s version history.

Again, this update is free no matter where and when you got your GarageSale license. More information is available from the GarageSale website.

We just identified a serious issue with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and GarageSale’s auction
scheduling feature. This issue affects all GarageSale versions prior to today’s GarageSale 3.4
beta 4 release.

When an event is due, GarageSale will post the event’s first auction multiple times to eBay.

Leopard users, who wish to use GarageSale’s auction scheduler, should download
GarageSale 3.4 beta 4 from this link.

Please start your copy of GarageSale to download the newest additions to our ever growing collection of sophisticated auction designs. Design Pack #24 brings you eight new auction designs, which you can preview here. By popular request we also updated three existing designs with layouts that won’t include images in the item description.

Just in time for your Halloween auctions comes our ‘Spooky’ auction design for GarageSale. As a service to our arachnophobic users we made the spider optional. You can turn them off by selecting one of the “No spiders” layouts.

Those of you who sell vintage and antique items might be delighted to see the ‘Vintage Collage’ design included:

All new designs can be previewed here. You can download these new designs through GarageSale’s built-in Design Template Manager.

We just released version 1.1 of GarageBuy, our free application for searching, finding, and buying stuff easily on eBay with your Mac. The new version improves application performance and adds some nifty features to the user interface. Let me take a minute to highlight three of the interface changes for version 1.1:

We added a third viewing mode for found auctions. It shows one auction image and the current bid. The color of of the price tag tells you whether you are the highest bidder on this item (green) or not (red).

	A progress bar is displayed right under the title of each watched auction, telling you how much time is left until the auction finishes.

When selecting an item, you can now slide through the auction’s images. We like the new way much more, than the thumbnail based approach of version 1.0.

More information and the download link can be found on the GarageBuy homepage.

On the heels of this week’s release of GarageBuy, we are pleased to announce the arrival of GarageSale - version 3.3.

This release adds compatibility with Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (if you are already on a preview version Leopard, please check out our new Quick Look plugin ).

GarageSale 3.3 can now send buyer addresses to Endicia’s Mac client for printing USPS labels with a single click. You can sign up for a free 30 day trial of the Endicia service here.

By popular demand we also added support for specifying eBay’s Giving Works program.

Again, this update is free no matter where and when you got your GarageSale license. More information is available from the GarageSale website.

Fire up your copy of GarageSale to get your hands on eight brand new auction designs included with Design Packs #22 and #23.

As always, each of the new designs contains multiple layouts (some more than 20) that let you choose how images and description are aligned on the auction page. For most of the designs in pack #23 you can choose between different background colors and turn off the theme-specific graphics.

For quite some time we have been selling GarageSale on eBay. At first we did this because we eventually ran out of items we could sell on eBay for testing our software. But much to our surprise there were actually users who refused to buy from other channels than eBay.

Today our eBay feedback score hit the 2000 mark.

You can check out our eBay feeback page here.

We just released a new beta version of GarageBuy, our new application for searching and bidding on eBay:

GarageBuy 1.0 Beta 5 fixes a few glitches present in earlier development versions. If you are using any of the earlier beta releases, you should definitely update to this version.

GarageBuy is the first Mac application featuring eBay-certified bidding functionality. Bids can be placed instantly without having to wait for all those web pages to load.

It also features an intuitive Gallery view, which loads as many images from your found items as fit on your screen. You don’t have to open each single listing just to see how the item looks anymore.

Just start your existing copy and the built-in update mechanism will install the current release on your mac automatically.

For more more information and the download link, please visit the GarageBuy home page.

Auction Design Pack 21 is now available for download bringing you 4 new designs. Each of those designs offers you more than 20 different layouts to change the way your item description and photos are aligned on the eBay page.

You should see a message about this next time you start up GarageSale, that brings you to the Design Template Manager window. Click on
the ‘Download All New Designs’ toolbar button to install the new design on your mac.

Here is a preview of two of the new designs:

P.S. You might have to restart GarageSale to see new designs in the preview mode. We are working to get this fixed.