eBay Mobile (iPhone Application)

You can bid for items on this application without a problem. You find the item you want to bid for and type this in as you would on the internet normally. I sometimes sense there is a slight delay so if you are like me and like to put a bid for an item in at the last minute then it might be worthwhile doing that last bid just a bit sooner with this application.
You also have the ability to find out when items are ending without touching a single button. You are given updates if the item you are watching is ending soon. This update which is sent like a message to you on the phone regardless of what you’re doing will give you usually around 15 minutes before the end of the auction.

If you sell items like me you get updates about when people have placed a bid on one of your items but also you get information about when they have paid as well. You never have to do much for this information to come to you.
You get information given to you about when the item ended, whether the person has managed to pay for the product and also information about when an item never sold.

Messages show up in the same way and this is a great idea because if stops you constantly checking Ebay for updates on how products are doing. I have to admit when I sell items and the last few hours have come upon me I spend ages checking back and forth to see if the items have gone up in price.

Selling

As you can tell there is plenty to do on this application so I am now going to discuss how you can sell products. You do this in a few ways you can use your mobile or go online. The online method is perhaps more likely to get you selling as you feel more safer and by this I mean you worry that using your mobile you might put in wrong information.
What I tend to do is take a picture of the item with my phone and then I go to the selling page and upload the image and make sure that everyone who looks at my item has a really good view of what I am selling. I always put in plenty of information regarding the items such as weight and size.

Obviously people will not like the idea of loading up auctions and selling items via a phone but you will be surprised how many items now are being sold in this manner. The idea is simple you can use the scanner to scan a book, DVD anything really which has a good barcode. If Ebay recognises it then it will display the information about the item for you.
Information such as the author, how many pages the book has and what year the release date was. I like this idea on the phone but I do worry because of what is mentioned above I just feel that they need to let you add more information if your selling with a mobile phone.

Overall Impressions

I have found this application extremely quick there is no doubting the speed to which is works. I am using this application on the 3G system and also a Wi-Fi connection and obviously the Wi-Fi link is more powerful and quicker but when I am out and about the 3G connection with the application is superb also.
I like how you have everything there, there is nothing missing you can even leave feedback as well so you do not need to sit down at night open up the laptop and go searching it is there on your phone, free of charge.

The pictures you can zoom into, you have plenty to look at and the application makes browsing and bidding so much easier than it has ever been. There is updates every few months with new ideas added and as mentioned before now you even have the new scanner option which is superb.

My overall impression is the application is fantastic I am just sceptical and worried about people selling on their phone to me there is more chance someone could fake an item with their phone by taking pictures of items which are not accurate to their own.