eBay announces the launch of a new mobile app for Android
eBay announces the launch of a new mobile app for Android
7 July 2010 – eBay.com.au today announced the launch of a new eBay application for the Android handset, making shopping on the go even more accessible.
Free to download from the Android Market, the application will allow users to search, buy, pay, and check the status of their eBay activity from their Android handset – bringing the world’s largest online marketplace to their fingertips, anytime, anywhere.
eBay spokesperson, Jenny Thomas said Australian consumers increasingly want the convenience of shopping while on the move.
“eBay mobile sales are growing faster in Australia than in any other major market, with an item purchased through an eBay app every 15 seconds. This latest Android application will help even more Australians to pick up a bargain on the site regardless of whether they’re on the bus or at the beach.”
Android eBay app key features:
Voice search: In addition to type search, the eBay application comes enabled with speech-to-text voice search. Advanced search: Search within specific preloaded categories, refine your search based on select criteria or search for completed listings. Buyer alerts: Stay up to date on the status of your auctions and watched items with timely alerts sent to your handset. Feedback: Share your eBay experience by leaving Feedback for items bought and sold via the application. PayPal integration: The eBay app comes with PayPal integration, delivering a safe and secure environment. Buy It Now: Shoppers can purchase the items they want right away, at a set price, without having to wait for a listing to end.
The Android application can be downloaded by searching ‘eBay’ from the Android Market.
eBay.com.au has a number of mobile platforms available for download, including applications for iPhone & iPod Touch, iPad, BlackBerry, Android and Mobile Web.
The issues of this company are hardly worth discussing any more. Clearly, the headless turkeys at eBay have taken over the farmyard and since the arrogant, incompetent, sociopath, John Donahoe, has been given access to the executive wash room, eBay is being flushed further and further down the toilet every quarter.
Their new US data center has, since the April Fools Day IT Massacre, been effectively non functional, or if it is functioning as planned, it’s a very strange plan. The fact is the whale is high and dry on the beach, has died, and is now stinking.
The evening of the 21st is going to be another most entertaining night for eBay watchers. We are all waiting to hear who Donahoe will blame this time for what, in reality, is eBay’s ongoing dismal performance compared to online commerce in general (Amazon in particular). I have my thermos of coffee and popcorn already prepared in anticipation of watching a very unprofessional presentation (including lots of chimp-like hand waving) of a whole load of deceptive spin.
In the meantime, for anyone seriously interested in the utter incompetence and deviousness of eBay’s executive management generally, and in particular eBay’s deliberate and demonstrable criminal facilitation of the rampant shill bidding fraud being perpetrated on unsuspecting buyers, by a great many unscrupulous professional sellers, on nominal-start auctions, an introduction thereto (along with some PayPal horror stories thrown in for good measure) can be found at
http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=6502877
eBay/PayPal/Donahoe: Dead Men Walking