Ebay has finally followed up its iPhone buying app with a selling version, meaning you can maintain your Ebay business from your iPhone, and Ebay are claiming you can list an item in 60 seconds, including track listing a CD.
The iPhone app uses barcode scanning to fill out a listing form, and to push the app, is offering free listings till 29th July. Many of your listing details can also be transferred from other sellers with similar items, which means things like DVDs and electronics will be simple to list, but clothes and furniture and the like might take quite a lot longer. It also sets up custom selling preferences, links to other Ebay and PayPal apps, and your social networking sites.
The original Ebay app has now been downloaded by seven million people, and one item is purchased every 12 seconds in the UK. Interestingly though, only 40 per cent of Ebay’s listings are auctions. How effective the barcode scanning is we have yet to see, but if it works not only will it mean that users can sell through their iPhone, but it’ll also make listing and selling an item a whole lot easier.
To take a closer look, and meet a frighteningly generic man named John, take a look at the video here.
