eBay Launches iPad App
On Saturday, April 3, when millions of people were lining up to pick up the Apple iPad, eBay was busy launching its new iPad application. eBay for iPad is a free application is available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German, and is available now for download from the iTunes Store.
According to tech guru and journalist Harry McCracken, eBay decided not to duplicate its existing iPhone version or bring all the features from eBay.com to the new platform. Instead, they decided to focus on a new user interface that is optimized for browsing the site on an iPad.
The eBay iPad application does away with the classic eBay list of items. Instead, there’s a large gallery of images, and users scroll through a procession of product photos and short descriptions (no more multiple pages of listings). To bid, or read all the details, a tap of the finger brings up the full listing, or you can display a full-screen version of the image.
Included in this article are some screen shots of the new application that eBay supplied to journalists and bloggers late last week, showing how the new application works. From the top is the main eBay application page, where users enter their search criteria, followed by a gallery of images in a specific category, and details of one item. A full-screen view of the main gallery image is also available in the application, but is now shown here.
The new focus on graphics and high-resolution photos means that the quality of photos used in eBay listings is going to be increasingly important, according to David Goldstein, vice president of marketing at Dallas eBay consignment store Easysale, Inc. “We use studio-quality photography equipment to shoot up to 25 photographs of each item that we sell on eBay,” Goldstein noted. “The quality of our photography has always been one of the reasons that the items we sell get higher bids than similar items listed by individual sellers, and we think the new platform will increase the importance of high-quality images.”
With industry analysts projecting that iPad sales will be between 1.5 million and 6 million units between its launch and the end of June , the new platform could begin to affect eBay sellers quickly, Goldstein said.
For more information on how to sell on eBay, and the many ways that using an eBay consignment store can boost the selling price for collectibles, antiques, and other household items, visit any of the Easysale locations in Addison, Arlington, Dallas, Plano or Southlake or visit the Easysale website.
Photo Credit: The images included here are press photos released by eBay, Inc.
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