eAuctionAlerts Blog

We want to wish all our users a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Don’t forget that January is the BEST time of year to get deals on eBay! See you in 08!

The iPhones is still the hottest gadget on the planet as seen by the warm reception it’s been getting. Demand for iPhones are sky high, even prompting mobile phone service o2 to bulk up its ranks with around 1400 extra people in order to keep up with the demand it gathered during its launch. o2 is one of the biggest and most stable mobile phones provider around, so them beefing up their workforce just for the iPhone speaks volumes on the market pull of Apple’s newest baby. This is the main reason why more and more developers like us are getting hooked to creating applications for it.

We were finally able to put together some screen shots of our recently announced iPhone application! For those who don’t have an iPhone or an iPod touch you can see the interface below in all it’s iPhone glory! These two screen shots show the main application page and the confirmation page.

It’s 2am here on the East Coast and we literally just finished cranking out our eAuctionAlerts iPhone app for free eBay auction alerts to your mobile phone! eAuctionAlerts free auction alerts iPhone app not only looks great on that big touch screen, it makes it a breeze to navigate our interface, without the need to tap or zoom in. Did we mention it uses Ajax? We know some people love that buzz word these days.

Just navigate over to http://eauctionalerts.com/iphone from your iPhone to access the application.

Apple’s iPhone hasn’t even been out for four months yet, but it’s already paving the way for the future of the mobile web! We want to make sure that we’re right there along with the revolution.

We’re going to call this a beta for now, while we work on making sure everything looks and feels the same for the old iPhone firmware and the new 1.1 iPhone firmware. But while we work out any kinks, feel free to take the app for a spin

Today we added some additional alert times to eAuctionAlerts. This means that you can now schedule your mobile alerts up to 6 hours in advance for your desired eBay auctions! We hope it helps you to win those rare auctions that only seem to come up every so often!

We added support for some smaller cellular carriers today due to some user feedback. If you find that eAuctionAlerts doesn’t support your carrier, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Now that we’ve successfully launched got have gotten some good press, we’re actively looking for sites to partner up with to help continue to grow eAuctionAlerts and attract more users who can  benefit from our service! If you have an eBay site or a text messaging site and would like to know more, drop us a line.

We had one of our biggest users create a basic “How To” viral video for YouTube after our launch on Tuesday. The user walks you through the 4 simple steps needed to setup a text message alert for any eBay auction, giving a nice overview of eAuctionAlerts. We thought it was a pretty cool video and a good way to get the site out there, so you might be seeing more of these viral videos on YouTube, and other popular online video sites, in the near future.

June 19, 2007 — Today eAuctionAlerts.com is proudly launching the first free service to remind people when their specified eBay auctions are about to end, by sending a free alert via SMS text message. eAuctionAlerts helps eBay users who like to bid in the last few minutes of an auction, a very common practice on the world largest online auction site, but tend to forget. Until now there were no free solutions to receive eBay auction alerts.

eBay’s paid service costs $0.25 per auction for mobile alerts via text message. However, eAuctionAlerts is completely free to its users. eAuctionAlerts currently does not require any registration, and is fast and easy to use, with everything done on one page. eAuctionAlerts even allows people to choose how soon before the end of an auction they would like to be alerted. eAuctionAlerts can even be used on eBay.co.uk and most of eBay’s other international properties.

eAuctionAlerts currently supports almost every wireless carrier in the United States and Canada, meaning eAuctionAlerts is available to the tens of millions of eBay users and works even if a subscriber’s number has been ported. Currently there are plans to add additional international carriers in the near future.

eAuctionAlerts cares about its users privacy. The site does not sell or share phone numbers entered and does not spam or send any unwanted text messages to its users after the end of auctions.

Stop losing auctions by using www.eAuctionAlerts.com.

For more information, or to begin setting up free eBay auction alerts to your mobile phone, visit http://www.eauctionalerts.com.

eAuctionAlerts is in no way affiliated with eBay, Inc. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

# # #

We’re looking for some people in the Europe and Australia to help us test out our international text messaging capabilities and see if we can get things worked out over there! We really don’t want to leave our international users hanging. If your interested just drop us a line.

That’s right! The press releases detailing the initial launch of eAuctionAlerts have been submitted to a few of the major press release web sites. You’ll be able to see them Tuesday morning, hopefully on Google or Yahoo News.

We’re really excited about the launch and hope we get some good press!