Filed under Los Angeles Living on October 15th, 2008:
Improve your eBay Experience with these Helpful Web Sites
eBay has become a cultural phenomenon over the past decade. Millions of people have engaged themselves in this buying and selling online community.
If you’ve been to the eBay web site, you’ve surely heard of Paypal, a site that allows online auction winners to pay auction sellers instantly. But have you heard of BidNapper, FatFingers or Payloadz? Here’s some info on what you can do on those sites, all from the convenience of your Los Angeles home.
BidNapper
BidNapper.com is an auction sniper. It puts in last-minute bids on your behalf, increasing your chances of winning. It also helps keeps the price of the item you want low because you won’t have to put in your bid hours, or days, early. When you use BidNapper, it keeps your bid private, so nobody else knows what your bid amount is.
Bidnapper is synchronized precisely with eBay’s clock and is continuously monitoring the connection between their servers and eBay. When the time to bid arrives, Bidnapper submits your bid. If you want to use this eBay sniper, you can get a free 15-day trial on their web site. After that, prices start at $7.99 per month.
FatFingers
Often times an eBay seller mistakenly misspells the name of an item he or she is selling. When buyers search the eBay site, the item does not come up in the search, due to the misspelling. FatFingers.com allows you to capitalize on a seller’s error. It searches and finds spelling mistakes, often giving you the chance to be the lone bidder on an item.
Payloadz
If you like to sell on eBay, Payloadz may be useful to you. This web site helps you sell downloadable items such as software, eBooks, music, movies, digital art, manuals, articles, certificates, forms, files, and anything else that can be downloaded. Payloadz delivers sellers’ products to buyers instantly, using PayPal’s online payment system and Google Checkout.
eBay has recently relaxed restrictions on selling downloadable items. Some downloads that are now permissible include MP3 files of an original song, written and recorded by the seller, an eBook of recipes or computer software created by the seller.
Sellers can choose to list products directly from the Payloadz web site and have the company handle all the listing duties or sellers can sell directly from their own eBay accounts using the PayLoadz service.