In this video tutorial, I am going to show you how you can bid on items in eBay using the application GarageBuy. Keep in mind that in order for you to be able to place a bid using this application, you must first allow the application to let you sign in with your ebay account.

GarageBuy makes it easy and efficient for bidding on items. First, type in your search in the search box located in the top left corner of the application. When the popup window appears, you can narrow your search down by selecting a more targetted category. You can also set a limit to how many results you want to be shown.

After the auction listings have loaded, click on an item that you wish to purchase. Then hit the Place Bid button. In the bid placing window, you will be provided with reliable information such as the name of the seller, and their feedback percentage, You will also be shown the current bid price, along with how many bids are placed.

To place your bid, type in your bid in the text box that says My Bid. If you look below the text box, you will be shown what the minimum amount is that you must bid. When you have type in your bid, press the place bid button and your bid will be placed.

Pay attention to where it shows how much time is left in the auction, as well as where it says that the page updates automatically every 60 seconds.

If we go to place a bid on an item that has less than one hour remaining in the auction, the time left will show up in red, and we will be able to see the time counting down by the second.

If we go to place a bid on an item with less than 5 minutes remaining, the price will automatically update after 20 seconds as opposed to 60. Automatic updates will continue to become more frequent as the auction comes closer and closer to its final seconds. This saves you time from having to constantly refresh as an auction is coming to a completion. You can still, however, press the Update Now button as often as you’d like.

So that is how you place bids on eBay items using GarageBuy. For more GarageBuy and other Mac software video tutorials, visit www.apptorial.com

First, we’ll make our search by typing in our query in the search box located in the top left corner of the application. A popup window will appear with different categories related to your search. You can narrow your search by selecting a subcategory that closely matches your search. You can also select up to how many results you want to be shown.

After just a few seconds, your results will appear. The first view option, the gallery list view,  shows the auction information with some of the auction images, as well as the current bid, the shipping costs, the sellers feedback, and more.

The second option shows the auction in a list format. This view gives you an easy look into several different auctions at once. You are able to neatly see the current bid price for each auction, the Buy It Now price, if it exists, the time left in the auction, the number of bids and more.

The third view mode will show you each items image, with the item title and its current price.

You can see more information for each auction in all three of the views in the bottom half of the window. The information is brought up by clicking on an individual auction. When you click on the auction, you will be given all of the auction information such as the Sellers username, total cost based on current price and shipping cost, as well as the location of the seller. You can also view all images contained in the auction by clicking on the images tab. The description tab will show you the actual description section from the eBay auction. The specifics tab will show the specific information for the product. This information might include the brand name, the condition of the item, the size of the item, or whatever other specific information that may have been inputted by the seller.

The other option for seeing the details, is to choose the full listing option. This will bring up the actual eBay listing shown within the application. You can easily switch between different auctions by just clicking on each listing your are interested in viewing.

You can also control the size of the auction listing in the first and third list views by using the scroll located in the top right corner of the window.

So that is how you perform a search, and browse through the listings with the different view modes in GarageBuy. To view more GarageBuy, and other mac software video tutorials, visit www.apptorial.com

In this video, I am going to show you how can sync eBay auctions with iCal using GarageBuy.

GarageBuy makes syncing auctions very easy to do. Simple select the auction you want, and then press the Generate iCal Event button. You can do this for as many auctions as you want. To view these auctions in iCal, just open up iCal and you will see that the auctions that were just selected to generate the event, are in fact included here in iCal.

When you place an auction in your watch list, you are also given the option of placing that auction in your iCal. To place an auction in your watch list, highlight the auction, and then select the Watch Auction button. When you click on the item in your watch list, you will then be able to check off if you want to generate iCal event in calendar. You will also be given the opportunity to select when you the alarm to notify you of when the auction is approaching completion. If you prefer to have alarm with sound, you can also choose that option.

To add a price threshold, Simply check off Price Threshold, enter your maximum price, and check off Remove Watched Items When over Threshold to let the application know that you want the item removed from your watch list.

The options for syncing with iCal can be altered by clicking on the GarageBuy button in the menubar, then selecting preferences, and then the iCal Events tab.

Here you will be given the option to choose the default action for the auctions as iCal events. You can select how far in advance you want to be notified, as well as the sound that you want the notification to make. Lastly, you can choose to have the application automatically create an iCal event for all eBay auctions that you place in your watch list.

So that is how you sync eBay auctions with iCal using GarageBuy. For more GarageBuy and other mac software video tutorials, visit www.apptorial.com