Auctiva

[pickapresent13]

Just wondering who uses, or has used, Auctiva, and what your opinions of it are. I`ve been thinking about signing up and using it for the past couple of weeks, but still a bit undecided

[trulyspecialgoodies]

I've been using it for nearly 2 years, am very happy with it and believe it's well worth the $9.95 per month that I pay. They offer a 30 day free trial so you can try it before you commit to anything.

It took me probably 2 or 3 weeks to get the hang of it initially (I'm a bit of a technological moron) and I had to go quite slowly but now I wouldn't be without it.

A lot of members here seem to use Turbo-Lister and it's free so maybe you could check that out as well - but I can't give you any information about that.

[davewil1964]

A lot of buyers, anecdotally, HATE scrolling galleries, so it might pay to not include them if using Auctiva. Or at least put them down the bottom of the listing, not the top. I am definitely anecdotal about them above the description.

[jfmgray]

I can't live without Auctiva.  As a seller of second hand CDs, every day I am needing to list many CDs that I have previously listed over the years.  I have over 10,000 individual listings saved on Auctiva over a 5 year period including 1 gig of hosted images, and it only takes a few seconds to re-list an item.  The $9.90 investment is well worth it for me, but if you do not require to save listings over a long period, then it may not be as valuable to you. 

I dislike turbo-lister.  It seems to always be stuffing up and it wont let me relist items if they are over 60 days since last sold.

[putney32]

I swapped from Auctiva to Inkfrog a couple of years ago and I just love Inkfrog for listing and storing photos.

[phorum_junkie*]

From a buyers point of view if you are going to use Auctiva can you please, if possible, turn off all they extra emails that are sent after purchase. I don't even like my inbox being invaded by the obligatory ebay emails (they are usually deleted without reading) so don't want any more.

If you must use the DSG (dreadful scrolling gallery) then put it at the bottom of the page, that way I may just read the top of the listing before hitting the back button.