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Annoying

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Contributed by: binosama Wednesday, July 19 2006 @ 06:21 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: NO

That guys think they can inject code arbitrarily and uninhibited into your auctions and give you no chance to switch it off.
E. g. they add a link to an image on their site (Made with ...). And that in a payed software!

 

Beside the fact you can't make sure the link works resp. the image is there/the right/proper one and this doesn't spoil your created site with a dead image icon or a wrong/delicate one, would you like your camera printing "Nikon" on each picture or have your text processor writes "Mariner Write" across each sheet? Finally your printer puts additionally an "Hewlett Pissard" diagonally on the paper. Nice!
Idiotic!

 

And there are many other issues (slow, unintuitive, restrictive, nearly as confusing as ebays site itself, many missing features, missing manual, poor support, bugs ...) that make it easy to take your fingers away from such a soft.

 

Until they don't cut out this promotional stuff we will happily refrain from using and paying for it.

  

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How to turn off image - miketall

To turn off the linked image, it is rather simple. In fact, it gives you the option to put in your own Signature or Company Logo in every auction. I consider this an awesome feature.

To turn it off, simple go to "Preferences". You will see at the bottom of the "General Preferences" a checkbox labeled 'Include Item Footer in Description'. Uncheck this box, or include your own automated logo for every auction.

By contrast, the only viable option I have found is iSale. They DO FORCE YOU TO USE THEIR LOGO. This is one, main reason I decided not to use iSale. It is even in the iSale FAQs that you can not disable iSale from including thier logo in auctions. To me that is very unprofessional if you wanted to use their software for anything other than personal use.

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Wednesday, July 19 2006 @ 08:45 AM PDT


Slowness & User Manual - miketall

I agree the program can be a little slow, and I would like to see that improved. However, I again look at alternatives. I have have found GarageSale to be much speedier than alternative programs. One thing I have done to help speed up the program more is to disable the 'Enable Listing Preview Designs' in the "View" menu. This will speed up things when Previewing your design templates. It is nice to see all 50 templates, but once you get used to the ones you like, you can turn off this preview feature.

As for the manual, I would like to see one in PDF format or a standard Help like you have for most Mac OS X programs. Instead you will find the entire "SEARCHABLE" manual online. You can access it through the "Help" menu. It's there, but you will need to be online to view it. I agree - not the optimal solution but it is fairly complete. I suggest using the online search tool to help locate the exact topic you want. That should save some time.

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Wednesday, July 19 2006 @ 08:59 AM PDT


Download User Manual - miketall

A manual was compiled in PDF format with all the pages from the online HTML manual. You can get it from the following link:
http://www.iwascoding.de/downloads/GarageSale_Manual_12.06.06.pdf

It's not pretty, but it looks complete. Good for offline viewing if needed.

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Wednesday, July 19 2006 @ 10:50 AM PDT


Annoying - junglerolf2

how old are you?
your whole point was to complain about a little Made With button - shame on you. i find many faults with the software too, yet it's the best there is for its purpose and do not forget it is cheap for what it does - how can you complain about $25 when a) you would not get improvements for less than that, as the small developer could not survive and does not live for you only, and b) you could always choose full professional software like Adobe-Macromedia Dreamweaver, but that costs $400 that does WYSIWYG web authoring and can't even handle eBay! i guess, complainers are complainers - i am grump too - it takes one know one, but let's at least complain with some logic. there is no point in doing it for its own sake, as it only kills creative development. if we know how to critisize, we should also be able to take criticism. the world is rotten as it is, let's not add on to the pile. it's only $25 and no one forced you to buy it. spend your energy elsewhere or otherwise. so will i now.

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Wednesday, July 26 2006 @ 04:18 PM PDT


Annoying - junglerolf2

how old are you?
your whole point was to complain about a little Made With button - shame on you. i find many faults with the software too, yet it's the best there is for its purpose and do not forget it is cheap for what it does - how can you complain about $25 when a) you would not get improvements for less than that, as the small developer could not survive and does not live for you only, and b) you could always choose full professional software like Adobe-Macromedia Dreamweaver, but that costs $400 that does WYSIWYG web authoring and can't even handle eBay! i guess, complainers are complainers - i am grump too - it takes one know one, but let's at least complain with some logic. there is no point in doing it for its own sake, as it only kills creative development. if we know how to critisize, we should also be able to take criticism. the world is rotten as it is, let's not add on to the pile. it's only $25 and no one forced you to buy it. spend your energy elsewhere or otherwise. so will i now.

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Wednesday, July 26 2006 @ 04:18 PM PDT


Annoying? How?! - junglerolf2

how old are you?
your whole point was to complain about a little Made With button - shame on you. i find many faults with the software too, yet it's the best there is for its purpose and do not forget it is cheap for what it does - how can you complain about $25 when a) you would not get improvements for less than that, as the small developer could not survive and does not live for you only, and b) you could always choose full professional software like Adobe-Macromedia Dreamweaver, but that costs $400 that does WYSIWYG web authoring and can't even handle eBay! i guess, complainers are complainers - i am grump too - it takes one know one, but let's at least complain with some logic. there is no point in doing it for its own sake, as it only kills creative development. if we know how to critisize, we should also be able to take criticism. the world is rotten as it is, let's not add on to the pile. it's only $25 and no one forced you to buy it. spend your energy elsewhere or otherwise. so will i now.

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Wednesday, July 26 2006 @ 04:23 PM PDT