AuctionSieve - 2.0.0

this app has a bizarre, completely unfamiliar and illogical interface that makes no sense, and comes with no documentation to boot. i'll try working with it a little longer to see if i can figure out why i should use this to search instead of JBidWatcher or simply searching on eBay, but at present the purpose of this application is not evident to me.

I agree with Martin. This program is worth trying. You will love it. If you give it a chance it will become the only thing you'll use for your ebaying. It doesn't take long to learn it's features and even though they're simple they're powerful. But isn't simple what Mac is all about. Only time my version is slow is when it has to update an very heavy search with a lot of findings. Otherwise it's been running like clockwork for me. I'm on OS X vers 10.4.8. Thank you!

There are two things that are brilliant about this application.
First, it's a fantastically useful way of finding what you want on ebay without looking at tonnes of other stuff (and, indeed, without having to float past all the scams and duds). I very rarely look at eBay by any other route than this application.

Second, the author keeps on updating it. There were other free utilities I used to use with eBay that were great for a while. But eBay keeps changing its specs, quite possibly to stop these utilities from working. AuctionSieve gets updated so often that it's never behind the times for more than a day.

This version is the best update ever -- as well as updating to keep up with eBay, the author has introduced time-saving features like multi-finding, and has generally upped the speed.

For those who are wondering how the author makes his money, it's by being part of the eBay affiliate program. This means that as long as people keep using AuctionSieve, he will keep earning, and, one assumes, will keep updating -- since he only earns if the program works. It's an extremely appropriate business model which doesn't cost the end user (ie, me) anything at all.

Fantastic

This is a terrific program if you are an Ebay user. It's one of my favorites and I use it daily. The ability to do multiple searches at once saves a great amount of time. The ability to narrow your search by using various filters also saves time and produces specific results that you can't come close to getting with an Ebay search on it's own. The programmer is from Sydney, Australia, and is very prompt to upgrade his program to accommodate frequent changes made by Ebay. I highly recommend this program. If you take the time to learn to use this program properly, you won't be disappointed.

I wonder why the programmer does not link directly to the auctions. All links are encoded and routed via

http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-1751-2978-71?

He also managed to block "right click" on the links to Ebay - why? Is he afraid someone will find out about his tricky concept?

I don't like people fooling me that way.