GarageSale 4: Review and Giveaway
Lets face it — we all have lots of junk laying around in our garages. Most of us don’t know what to do with it, so we throw it out. Well, just throw out that mindset and say hello to GarageSale 4, from iwascoding. This app lets you trade your junk for money by helping you create auctions on eBay that potential buyers will find attractive.
As many of us know, the online process for making eBay auctions is horrid! It takes hours to complete, and you end up with an okay-looking eBay auction. However, if you decide to use GarageSale, the auction has an amazing theme, many more options and looks much more reputable. It also speeds up the process so it only takes a few minutes to go from in your garage to up on the internet. GarageSale 4 includes many new features including a Cover Flow theme chooser, free image hosting and many more options for customization of your eBay auctions to make them as eye-catching as possible.
With GarageSale 4, picking a theme to use for your auction has become a snap. The interface of the application itself has been completely redesigned for a better user experience and ease of use. You just choose a style from the top of the pane, then choose a theme from the Cover Flow list, and then the app shows you a preview of what your auction will look like. You can also choose the style of that theme below the theme chooser. This style will be the way that the theme is displayed.
Editing the text of your auction has also become even easier; you can do it straight in preview mode or in editor mode. If you edit the text in editor mode, you can add HTML code to your text. Adding images is also a snap — just drag one into a drop zone in preview mode or drop one onto the dark grey bar in editor mode. You can also import items from Delicious Library to make it easier to write up your description and title.
Once you have added all the text and images you want, you can change options for your auction using the inspector. The inspector offers the same options as offered in the online auction creator. Some of them are useful, whereas some of them, such as bordered (especially in GarageSale), can just be a waste of money.
The preferences in GarageSale 4 also play a major role in your auctions. You can choose to use GarageSale’s Free Picture Service in the Image Server tab. To set up an account for use with GarageSale, you must configure it in the Accounts tab. For the PayPal account that you use with your eBay, you must go through the process of getting an API username and password, which can take a few minutes.
One of the extremely nice features of GarageSale 4 is the ability to send and receive messages from eBay and eBay users from the application itself. In the misc tab of the sidebar, you can go to eBay Messages for
Once you are done customizing your auction, you can just hit the Start Auction toolbar button, and it tells you how much it will cost. GarageSale 4 offers many new and wonderful features that make it a great and easy-to-use app. If you have a garage filled with junk, give GarageSale a try and see what happens. You know what they say, one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure.
iwascoding has given me five licenses to give away on MacApper! Just comment with 1 thing in your garage that you could sell with GarageSale! The giveaway will end on March 24th, and the winners will be announced shortly after. Remember, if you like GarageSale but don’t win the giveaway, you can buy a copy for just $29.99!
I’ve been meaning to get around to selling off a lot of my old comics this would be a great way to do it.
Woow, this is what i have been waiting for! I am a coins/stamps collector, hopefully this is a good platfrom for my sales and maybe exchange which will save time and good management of my collections.
thanks for the great software!!
maco
I’m thinking of a pair of snowshoes. The only action that they’ve seen is from falling on my car!
I sure have a lot of stuff I could sell off with this. I’d love the be in the drawing for a license. Thanks
How about an old pants presser? It weighs about a zillion pounds. Or 600 old quilting magazines? An old sewing machine? String trimmer? Three lawn mowers? 15,984 wrenches? Buckets of nails?
hey, this is pretty neat. now i can finally sell my old tivo (lifetime)…!
Nice review. Since switching to a Mac last summer, my old PC has just been collecting dust. It’s about time someone else was disadvantaged with this inferior platform.
If I win a copy of GarageSale, I pledge to vanquish my PC using my Mac. That would be sweet justice!
Thanks.
Dead bodies Just kiddin
I got a ton of random junk lying around…
Hmmm,….
books, books and books…
And this old junky “i don’t know what it is”…
I downloaded the demo a few weeks ago, and found it quite easy to work with. I was pleasantly surprised when it had the Italian local postage options, and I found the developer is also prompt and helpful with support emails.
I have many things I would use GarageSale to sell, among which: some manga series, my old digital camera, iWork ‘06, my GBA SP + some games, my old cell phone. I might also use it to sell some stuff I make myself, like jewellery, candles, and soap.
I need to sell my old PC, just bought a new Mini.
Have a load of old PC’s because now I have my Mac.
I just decided to sell my iMac – I want a black MacBook. Guess this software could help me…
Hmmmm…. Can I sell GarageSale 3 license?
My brother gave me his comic book collection to sell. I’ve been dreading doing it because it’s so large. I could see this making it easier and helping me manage the whole process start to finish.
One thing? Come up with one thing? Have you seen my basement? The only reason it is so full is because there is no more room in the garage.
I would love to be in the running for a license. Getting a license would get rid of that last excuse not to clean house.
I have a bunch of flatmates to sell on E-Bay, was trying to create an auction few times but never had chance to complete this task. Just too much fuss, with GarageSale it would be much more easy… Eh
I’ve loads of items to sell! Books, clothes, bags!
I’d auction my collection of old ceramic beer mugs and steins. Or maybe my in-laws. Nah, there must be a law against that.
I’ve got a bunch of MS Press books that I have absolutely no use for now, I’d love to find someone to take them off my hands!
I have a rather large collection of Coca-Cola commemorative bottles which I really need to get rid of.
I’ve been looking for a desktop app to handle the task, and this looks much nicer than the alternatives.
Of course, if I had an app as easy to use as this appears to be, I’m sure I would find a lot more to sell.
I have a stack of text messages form Kwame Kilpatrick’s pager that I’d like to get ride of.
A collection of antiquated/declassified spying gear, including a turbocharged BMW Z5 and my old Windows laptop.
My new in box cast iron skillets.
One thing ?…Leads to another and before you know it, Garagesale has me putting everything which i have not used in the last year on Ebay. I’ll start with my old CD collection. Make one Garagesale template and quickly hammer in one ofter the other.
CDs… lots and lots of CDs. I was just submitting some auctions last weekend and could have used this. Why is eBay so confusing?
Lots and lots of gadgets
Address where Elvis is hiding
Hmmm, I’m going to have to find something in my garage to sell that’s worth 29.99……
A SIP modem.
I have a big four 12″ guitar amp I would love to find a better home! Can the magic of Garagesale help this puppy find a better home?
Great post! Thanks.
Well I have a fantastic Lindy HDMI/DVI splitter that I cant manage to sell on eBay. Maybe, making the auction more attractive would help.
What a great application!
With a new baby here, unfortunately some of the toys need to go. Funny how priorities shift.
The first thing I will sell is my coffee table which is very baby unfriendly!
I have 3 old laptops from the mid-90’s that I’d like to see what I could get for them. Plus maybe I could sell my old cell phone after having upgraded to an iPhone.
I want to sell my Olympus camera.
I’ve got about five pairs of hardly used skis, because I grew out of them so fast during my teenage years. I bet I could get a pretty penny for those…
A branding iron.
This might be what I need to actually sell some things on ebay.
I am thinking of selling excess golf clubs!
Or possibly a John Deere Greenstar unit for GPS parallel tracking from my dads tractor!
Hmm… lets see.
If, as consumers, we are constantly buying new things; and we never get rid of the old things we already have… Pretty soon, we’ll all need another house!
My wife and I eBay quite a bit, but our auctions pages are pretty bland. There is only so much time we can devote to marketing unwanted items, being as we’ve got 5 kids to keep track of. I’m really curios about this software, because if it is as easy as it looks, and we wouldn’t have to spend anymore time to create a better quality auction… Well, that’d be pretty cool.
Sign us up! =)
Lets see, I could sell some some books. Don’t read them anyways.
I have this weird old piggy bank that I’ve needed to get rid of forever!
How about a whole box of things? My husband and I actually have a “things to sell on ebay” box that has been sitting in our living room for the last couple of months because I’ve been dreading the posting process.
So far it’s got books, clothes, retro doo-dads that someone out there will treasure, the list goes on…
I need to sell my old Treo, I just got a 16GB iPhone. I also need to sell my old digital camera.
I’m still doing it the old fashioned way. This would be great!
This is perfect! I’m moving overseas in a month and I was just about to start listing everything on eBay manually, thank you guys for putting me on to this saviour! A license would be awesome!!
I’d sell a set of Callaway irons.
Yes, I do have a bunch of stuff I could sell. For example an almost new bike carrier for a Toyota Sienna.
Lots of stuff to sell… including an original HP DeskJet printer, circa 1988
I’d sell one of the two push mowers I own.
I would sell my little sister as a wife!
I’m new to the Mac and becoming a fan due to software like GarageSale and sites like MacApper… so I’d ebay off some of my PC peripherals that really seem ugly and pointless now that I’m Mac-equipped!
my garage would like to nominate my reel mower
thanks MacApper for the app opp
It just has to be my collection of dry cured British ham collected throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
I could sell an old Bondi Blue G3… *sniff*
I could sell my PSP with GarageSale.
ah, I want this! will sell my ThinkPad now that i’ve converted to Mac
Don’t have a garage, but I do have boxes and boxes of stuff to sell on eBay, one of them being a sealed copy of Persona 3 for the PS2.
287 assorted floppy disks with various programs from Microsoft, Deneba, Norton, Borland, etc., etc.,
I’m in the process of moving in with someone, so I’ve got about half a house worth of stuff I could sell. Better than just giving it to the goodwill. I’ve got everything from a bookcase, dinning room table w/ chairs! to 2 computers, and at least half dozen pictures that won’t fit on my new walls.
I’ve got a BlueMic Snowball I’m eventually going to put on eBay.
Well technically I don’t have anything in my garage since I don’t have a garage.
But I’d love to sell my old speaker set.
Sayonara old PC – the viruses, the Blue Screen of Death, the endless waiting, the ugly OS, the terrible programs, the constant nagging and the millions of untouchable files.
Uh oh! How am I gonna sell this thing? I need GarageSale’s help!
One thing I could sell in my garage using GarageSale would be my bikes.
I would use this great app to sell my used squash rackets. Thx.
I love Garagesale. I use it and Garagebuy compulsively and I’ve been waiting for version 4 for a while.
Have version 3 and like it but a free upgrade would be nice.
I have lots of things but the thing I really want to sell is my OLD mac clone. I think it was called the S 180 with 128 RAM and upgraded to a G3 processor. For the time it was awesome and it was my first tower. I had a 15″ monitor but when I just looked it would power on, but to sell it on ebay I guess it really doesn’t have to.
Hoards of self-help books, that having read everyone of them cover to cover and implemented all suggestions I am now happy as a lark!
I am dying to sell my ex-roomates junk. Don’t know what to do with it!
Oh, and all the stuff I have in my garage that I have promised myself I would eBay so I could afford more stuff to fill it back up.
I could sell a book I bought a month ago and haven’t even opened. ‘Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks eBay 3rd edition’. Using garage sales seems so much easier.
First thing to go would probably be the old Mac Cube, I keep finding more new apps that i need a newer machine to use efficiently and need to find the space.
Being on the move again a more general clean out is probably in order though!
Would love to see these guys incorporate some features like “garagebuy” as well.
I would like to sell my Klipsch RVX-54 floorstanding speakers that have been sitting idle for 13 months without a buyer. *Not many people have a pick-up truck I guess*
i could sell a lot of my motobike stuff
I’d like to sell a couple of my RC airplanes… and that old Server rack…. and… oh, right… just ONE thing.
There is whole bin of stuff in my garage I need to sell. Lots of kid’s clothes too!
Bike Rack and a R/C car.
I’d be selling the old video games.
I have probably $500 in textbooks sitting under my bed… GarageSale looks beautiful too
Actually, it will be most fitting if I sell a brand new set of tires stored in my garage… hey, this sounds like a cheap pun but it´s true
I could sell off my old computer stuff from my youth that my wife wants me to get rid of
I would love this to sell the home gym system in my garage that is serving as a divider to store stuff we don’t have anywhere else to put it and my wife’s tupperware (shhhhhh don’t tell her I said that:).
I’d probably sell some rare books that I have along with some computer parts. This program would certainly make the task more manageable.
All the computer parts and components I have stacked up in there!
I’d sell my version 3 of Garage Sale- so I could get this version for free! It’s been a great ap and worth every penny, but it’s time for an upgrade.
I’ve been thinking of selling my classic Schwinn Orange Crate Lowrider bike w/5-speed stick shift.
I’ve purchased on eBay for several years, but have never sold anything. Recently, I’ve vowed that will change and this might be just the thing to help me find new homes for some of my books, skis, software, etc that I’m not using anymore.
Hmmm…something from my garage to sell? It would definitely have to be the treadmill that I bought last year to help motivate my wife and I to start exercising. However, I kinda need something to help motivate me to actually step on the thing and pizza is not one of them!
I have a bedroom furniture set in my garage that I need to sell.
I am moving house (interstate) and I have found so much stuff I should sell rather than cart it all interstate. From PC’s, CD’s, furniture and books, everything will probably go on ebay. I just bought my first mac after being a pc user for 15 years…hey, this could be my first bit of mac software!
I’ll probably give it a shot anyway.
I’ve got an entire bedroom of stuff… so, I’ll sell our guest bedroom (walls, floor, and ceiling NOT included).
One of my old iPods
I’d like to get rid of one of my old laptops.
I could sell a unused Barcode Scanner and a watch which is brand new and unsued. Maybe I could sell some of my old clothes, too.
Greetings form Germany,
wischi
I used the previous version of Garage Sale and was quite impressed. The thing I would sell with this new version is my 1st Edition Dungeon and Dragons Books.
I would sell all my old DJing gear that I don’t use any more, train set from when I was a kid, and some random cars speakers/alarms etc that are making it impossible to move in there!
I need to sell a small cuban boy. Preferably overnight mail, but UPS Ground is ok too. Cannot guarantee condition of received item.
I have a slightly used 14″ LCD monitor which could probably fetch me a few pounds on eBay, but with GarageSale I could probably up that by 20-30%.
I would use GarageSale 4 to help me get rid of all the crap the former owner of my house left in the garage. Most of it’s too good to throw in the trash, but, at the same time, nothing I want to keep. I’d donate the proceeds to my kids’ school.
PSP is just covering dust, for the last on year. Would sell it and buy some sweet RAM for my MacBook
I’m looking to get rid of a lot of old computer equipment, and GarageSale looks like the tool for the job!
I’ve actually got my old G4 powerbook and 20GB iPod, that I could do with selling, so that I can purchase Apple TV!!
Well, it is the 24th… Results will be posted soon
Yes, it is the 24th… does that mean the giveaway has ended, or does it end later today? I have a ton of stuff to sell with GarageSale. Lots of books, some computer parts, and a wireless video transmitter/receiver pair. And much, much more, so act now!
Could I sell my boat with it?
I could sell a bunch of old stuff but I’m too lazy…
old iPod
old DS
old girlfriend
you know, the stuff that’s gotta be sold before it’s worth shit ^
If I’m not too late, I’d like to enter! We have an entire spare room filled with junk that we need to get rid of. Just one thing? How about “Santa’s Winter Wonderland” or something like that. It’s old, and way too big to use in our house.
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Today I downloaded and installed GarageSale 4.0 via their software update utility in Garage Sale 3.4. Unfortunately I over look that it was a paid update. Probably because in all my years working with software venders I’ve never come across an instance where a developer as used their software update utility to push a “pay-for-upgrade.”
Their tech support office recommended that I down grade to 3.4.3. This solution is unacceptable because it means that I’ll loose all of my past work. Let’s hope they make good on their dissipative download practice.
Hey, speed download did this too…
it’s also worth the money