We just released a new set of our popular “Pro Designs” for your eBay listings. Preview them now in GarageSale‘s built-in Design Store*!

“Pro Designs” are a special kind of eBay listings designs for GarageSale on OS X, that let you add your store name, store categories, and boxes with custom content to your store listings without needing to know HTML. Many of our just released, highly adjustable Pro Designs allow you to:

We just released GarageSale 6.6, an update to our eBay listing tool for the Mac.

Special Offer in May

To celebrate this release, we are offering GarageSale 6.6 at an introductory price of $19.99 throughout May. This offer is good for purchases made from within the application or when buying from the Mac App Store. Starting June, 1st GarageSale’s price will be $39.99 again.

What’s new in GarageSale 6.6

GarageSale 6.6 supports eBay’s new ‘condition description’ field, which let sellers describe the condition of used items in more detail. Users of eBay’s mobile apps will see this field directly in the item summary, without having to open the complete listing description.

Also new is support for eBay’s “Global Shipping Program”. By offering this option in their listing, seller on eBay.com can take all the pain of selling internationally. Instead of sending an item directly to an international buyer, sellers send their items to an eBay operated warehouse in the US, which relays the shipment to the international buyer. Thus eBay will all international shipping and customs issue.

Please check the detailed version history for a list of all new features in this release.

Our all-new GarageBuy 3 for OS X is finally available from the Mac App Store, making it as efficient as never before to search eBay and bid on your favorite goods on eBay.

No matter if your are using GarageBuy on your Mac, your iPad, or your iPhone – you will always work with the same set of saved searches and viewed listings.
You can now start reviewing your favorite eBay searches at home on your Mac, and pick up right where you left off with your iPad on your commute to work or school. Never look at the same listing again, wondering if you have seen it before!

Here is a short video tutorial introducing you to GarageBuy 3:

Major changes for the GarageBuy 3 release:

• Uses iCloud to synchronize saved searches and viewed items with GarageBuy for iOS.
• Redesigned interface
• High-resolution graphics on Macs with Retina display
• Marks eBay listings as read automatically while scrolling
• Outbid notifications on OS X 10.8

GarageBuy is also available as a direct download from our website. Since this version doesn’t have access to iCloud, you have to pair it manually once with the version on your iPod or iPhone.

Happy searching and bidding on eBay,
the iwascoding team

Merry Christmas from everyone at iwascoding!

During the holidays GarageSale’s price is 50% off (on the Mac App Store and also for the regular download)! The offer is only valid until the end of world 2012, so don’t miss out.

GarageSale 6.5, a new version of our eBay listing tool for OS X, is now available for you download from the iwascoding website. ¹

What’s new in GarageSale 6.5

GarageSale 6.5 uploads larger images to eBay’s and iwascoding’s image servers and can combine eBay and iwascoding image serving in a single listing.
In GarageSale´s Editor mode, you can now compose your item description using Markdown syntax.

Combine eBay’s and iwascoding’s image hosting in a single listing

Many eBay buyers are now using mobile apps to purchase your items, but the image gallery found in eBay’s mobile apps only works with images hosted on eBay’s servers. If you were using iwascoding’s free image service, mobile buyer’s wouldn’t see your images, unless they tapped the ‘full description’ button.

In GarageSale 6.5 we not only increased the maximum sizes for images uploaded to eBay and our own servers, you can now combine eBay’s and our image serving in a single listing.

To do so, check the “Also upload images to eBay’s picture service, if free” checkbox in the Preferences section for iwascoding’s image serving. This will give buyers up to 12 images in the gallery of eBay’s mobile app. At the same time you can embed up to 20 images at a resolution of up to 1200×800 pixels in the item’s description, given your buyers an opportunity to see your items in detail. For these description images, you can change the positioning by choosing a different layout and add a text caption to each image.²

Also, if eBay offers its supersize image option for free on your site (it does on eBay.com and other sites), GarageSale will now automatically activate that option for you.

Support for Markdown in Editor mode

Sometimes it’s just easier to quickly enter your item’s description as plain text. With the Markdown support in GarageSale 6.5, you can now quickly add headlines, ordered or bullet-point lists, and tables to your description.

See this page for a comprehensive list of available Markdown commands support in GarageSale.

More major changes

• added high-resolution artwork for MacBook Pros with Retina display
• improved barcode recognition in product search panel
• if provided by eBay, shows additional information for certain errors, especially error 240
• item specifics that allow for multiple values to be selected at the same time are supported now
• Hawaii and other US-overseas areas can be excluded from shipping destinations
• support for FTPS protocol when uploading images
• added support for shipping rate tables
• exclude locations in shipping panel are now grouped by continent

A comprehensive list of all changes in GarageSale 6.5 can be found here.

System Requirements

GarageSale requires OS X 10.6 or later.

Pricing

GarageSale 6.5 is available at $39.99. It’s a free update for existing owners of GarageSale 6. Updates from earlier GarageSale versions are available from $16.99.