This program attempts to manage every phase of buying and selling on eBay. It centers on a database in which it retains info on all the auctions you are tracking either as buyer or seller. My only interest is in quickly preparing new auctions using photos I have previously uploaded to a personal website. I do not buy much on ebay so I did not attempt to evaluate this program for that use; only for selling.

Ebay's auction-creation web page is tedious to use, but at least it presents you with a clear, well-defined work-flow: a sequence of simple actions, with clear prompting of the relevant choices at each step, and instant feedback. I went looking for a tool to build auctions locally then upload them. This program will do that but it has a number of drawbacks compared to the ebay pages. (1) The form you use to view/create an auction uses tiny type, I'm leaning in and squinting at the monitor; (2) It doesn't know the ebay category codes, and it has a tool for looking up only the Major category codes -- for example you can look up and enter "Book:nonfiction" but no way can you specify the sub-category "Literary Criticism"; (3) although it claims to handle pictures you've uploaded based on a URL you give it, in preview mode it doesn't display them.

The "manual" is badly organized and much too short for such a complex program. The writer has tried to lay out all the program's fields and forms in a program-based sequence, but this has nothing to do with the order the user needs them. The manual should discuss bidding, preparing, and post-sales as three different topics, the way the user thinks about them, but it just covers every feature more or less top to bottom left to right so info you need in each phase is mingled. I'm giving it 3 stars because I suspect it actually could be useful if (a) you track a LOT of auctions (dozens) and (b) you are prepared to put a lot of time into learning it.