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How to use this site


Favorites
The favorites screen stores your personal favorites. You can add favorites from the auction screens by clicking Add to favorites under any listing. You can also add specific auctions by locating the auction number at eBay.com and entering it on the favorites screen.

One Seller
The one seller tab shows items from a selected seller. Use this screen to watch auctions from any seller. The auctions ending soonest are displayed first. This tab also allows access to the presentation mode screen.

Presentation Mode
Presentation mode is a view that shows items from a single seller without any other content. Like the other pages, presentation mode will resize itself automatically when you refresh the page and fill the screen with items. It was originally designed for display in retail eBay drop offs. Position a monitor in a public area with no keyboard and mouse. It makes a great moving billboard. Items are displayed in the order in which they will end. Presentation mode can be used for in store displays, as a browser based screen saver (not for burn-in protection), or for whatever other displays you see fit.


Widget controls
The eBay widget controls may change from time to time with eBay design changes. The current widget allows connecting to the eBay site, searching within the widget for a list of items, and photo review. The search function can be used to bring up a list of items in each item box on the screen. This example shows items containing "greenday" alongside items containing "neil diamond"
In presentation mode on a 2560x1024 monitor, you could track 21 distinct eBay lists simultaneously (105 auctions).



Sniping
If you are sniping, click view and bid early to make sure you are seeing current data. Clocks are sometimes off by a small time frame.

Troubleshooting

No items displayed
The eBay widgets require Adobe Flash Player and access to the eBay site to retrieve content.

Too many or too few items displayed
For best results, enable JavaScript. JavaScript code allows the pages to resize dynamically to your browser. The initial display may show the wrong layout when you first enter the website, immediately after resizing the browser window or immediately after going into full screen mode. Refresh the screen (F5) to correct this. This is a limitation of browser technology. Once refreshed, our website gets information from JavaScript about your screen size and adjust accordingly.

Customized settings are not sticking.
Cookies must be enabled for this website.

View & Bid buttons not working
Allow popups from this site thru your browser or popup blocking software. We don't use popup ads, but the eBay widget executes a popup window when you click certain options to bring up the auction listing.

It's Slow
The eBay Widget require initial load time, but once loaded are speedy. The initial load time can take a few seconds, much longer under under Internet Explorer. To speed things up, select fewer rows in the customize options at the right side of the auction screens.

IE Users: For a faster and more secure browsing experience, download and install . Our tests of Firefox 2 vs IE6 over a typical DSL circuit show that Firefox loads a typical 4 auction display in 5 seconds while IE6 takes 15 seconds. That's 3 times faster! (IE7 was not tested. Since it is too much of a resource hog, we don't use it.) Seriously, try FireFox.

Pages showing closed listings
All listings shown are current within 10 minutes. Our server refreshes the pages every few minutes and caches the data for better performance. Your browser should reload pages every 5 minutes automatically. Auctions that have closed will remain on your browser until the page is refreshed and the items have expired off our server. You can manually refresh the pages at anytime (press F5)

Auto Refresh not working
If you are using Internet Explorer you may have to change an advanced setting to allow meta refreshes to get automatic page updates. If you are using FireFox, the pages will refresh properly. If you'd like to have the pages refresh more often, you can get a FireFox add-on called ReloadEvery that allows automatic reloading on a custom interval. Click Tools->Add-ons->GetExtensions on the Firefox menu.

Listings Included/Excluded
For performance, useability and editorial reasons, some items may not be included in our listings. We reserve the right to exclude any user, auction or seller from this site. Item rankings should not be considered absolute (i.e. the top price may not be the top price on eBay - see below).

• Item prices and times may vary sightly from the eBay web site.
• On the "one seller" and "by Keywords" screens, which show the "ending soon" items, listings that are ending in less than five minutes are excluded. This is done to give you time to login and bid on displayed items. Once they are displayed, they will remain on the screen for five minutes. Other screens are sort by price, bid etc.
• Because of the way the eBay API works, most lists are built on the basis of keywords that may not be contained in some eBay listings.
• Some items are specifically excluded based on behavioral formulas, such as items where shipping is higher than the current item price, or million dollar items with no bids.
• Items without bids are excluded from many screens. This filters out the spam ads that are used by people trying to advertise something cheaply.

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