For those coming from the BBC
It makes sense to explain, very briefly, what we do, if you haven’t been following the story from the start.
Auctomatic is designed to save sellers time on eBay.
To put this into context, the eBay website was designed for individuals to trade with each other. However, there are many businesses that use eBay as a distribution tool, and sell thousands of dollars worth of merchandise each month. For them, using the website to list hundreds of items a day, manage all the images, the feedback, and their inventory levels is near on impossible.
So a market has emerged to serve this need, and we created Auctomatic after hearing first hand from our boso sellers about this problem.
eBay fully supports these tools by making their API (tech speak for a way to plug in to the main site) free and putting a lot of internal resources towards promoting it.
To put this into context, over half of the auction listings on eBay.com come through external tools. This number itself grew by 30% year on year last year.
We’re in the final testing phase with the app and looking at launching soon. If you’ve any questions, feel free to email me at kul Posted on July 31