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Four Ways Of Staying In Touch with Ebay On The Move

Whether your addicted to eBay, running a full time eBay business or just watching an item sometimes you need to access eBay when your away from your computer. With mobile phones, containing more and more features every year - it's never been easier to use eBay or keep in touch with what's happening on eBay from a mobile phone.

This article contains four methods, which I regularly use to keep upto date with my eBay sales and bids. By using these, I'm no longer obliged to have a pc accessable 24/7.

1 - SMS Alerts

Some eBay sites offer sms alerts from eBay mobile. This allows you to sign up for alerts such as outbid notices, end of auction notices, as well as win and lose alerts. SMS Alerts from eBay are currently charged at 25p each alert received

2 - Gmail

Gmail for mobiles, is another application for mobiles which logs into your gmail account and retrieves your emails to your phone. It makes it easy to send and receive emails without having the latest smart phone. If you set your eBay email address to a gmail account, and turn on all email notifications (such as outbidding notices, sale notices) then the latest status of your eBay activities is only in your pocket.2 -

3 - WAP

The majority of phones have WAP available to them, and this is an ideal way to track your eBay activities. eBay has a mobile site at wap.eBay.com, or in the UK a dedicated mobile service at: eBaymobile.co.uk where you can log in and track your bids or sales within My eBay.

Using wap.eBay.com is the same as using www.eBay.com, so even if your not registered on eBay.com but rather eBay.com.au you should still be able to track your activities with ease.

4 - Qicture

For Sellers Qicture is one of the best ways of keeping on top of your eBay activities. Qicture is a free downloadable application to mobile phones, which log into your eBay account and retrieves information such as sales. As an eBay approved developer, it's pretty safe and you also need to enter a pin on your phone to log into the application. Quicture is currently downloadable free at: http://qicture.com

If your planning to try any of the above methods, it's pretty much essential to try them before you need to depend on them. I once relied on the wap method, to bid on an item last minute and found my phone could not display the confirmation page. This resulted in my bid not being accepted and I lost out on the item, so make sure you don't make the same mistake. Overall, these methods are very reliable.