We just released GarageSale 9.2, an update to our eBay selling software for macOS.
eBay will soon require all third-party clients to cryptographically sign certain API requests. GarageSale 9.2 implements this change. Please update at your earliest convenience to avoid failing API calls.
To see what else is new in GarageSale 9.2, please check out the detailed release notes on the GarageSale user forum.
GarageSale 9, a major upgrade to our eBay client for the Mac, is out.
This new version lets sellers add videos to their listings, a feature recently introduced to the eBay platform. Using GarageSale 9, sellers can send out discount offers to watchers of their listings. It’s also possible for users to create custom JavaScripts to manipulate a large number of listings very quickly, and define a set of custom rules that are checked before a listing is stared on eBay.
A complete list of new features and changes is available here.
GarageSale 9 pricing starts at $39.99 for new users, or $19.99 for the upgrade from earlier versions.
The upgrade is free for GarageSale Pro subscribers or users who bought their GarageSale 8 license after August, 1st 2021.
For a complete list of changes and the download link, please check this page.
If you have questions about GarageSale, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us, either through the GarageSale forum or by contacting us directly.
We just released GarageSale 8.4, an update to our eBay selling software for macOS. The new version adds suport for eBay’s new authorization mechanism which is a requirement to use new APIs rolled out by eBay.
The support for this new authorization mechanism enabled us to fix the Product search feature in GarageSale, after our previous implementation broke when eBay deprecated its underlaying API.
Once you refresh your token from GarageSale’s preferences, your can link a product from eBay’s catalog with your listing works again, as GarageSale can now use eBay’s new replacement API (which requires an a new-style authentication token).
To see what else is new in GarageSale 8.4, please check out GarageSale’s version history.
Today we received confirmation from eBay that we won’t receive commission payments for successful bids and orders placed through our free app GarageBuy (macOS version, iOS version) anymore.
Since these commission payments paid for GarageBuy’s maintenance and improvement since 2006, we have to decide whether or not its worthwhile to continue offering GarageBuy at all — or if we can come up with a sustainable alternative business model to keep it alive.
Unfortunately, eBay’s communication on this issue was all but crystal clear, making us believe we’d simply need to change GarageBuy to use a new eBay API to keep receiving commissions. Only after several inquiries from our side, we were able to receive confirmation that we won’t receive any compensation at all by mid-September (that’s next week).
We know that there a a lot of collectors that spend a lot of time in GarageBuy searching and bidding on eBay listing, in turn generating a revenue for eBay itself. It seems eBay decided it is better off without that business…
If you have any idea about GarageBuys future you’d like to share with us, please let us know here.
GarageSale 8.3 is out and runs natively on the new Macs powered by Apple Silicon chips.
This new version also comes with an improved ‘Bulk Search’ panel, which allows for exact string searching. This feature is very handy if you want to search and replace for HTML tags, which are exempt from GarageSale’s full text index.
For a complete list of changes and the download link, please check this page.
If you have questions about GarageSale, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us, either through the GarageSale forum or by contacting us directly.
