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I know we promise this a while ago, but I think you’ll agree that the wait was worth it. Meagan, Jermaine, and I have been working hard on these redesigns, and we really hope you like them. You can purchase these shirts from our account atZazzle.com. Of course our winner, April, will be getting her very own shirt for free.

Special thanks to everybody that helped make this contest possible, either by submitting an entry, voting, or helping out here in the office. We appreciate it. I think we’d like to do more of these in the future, and I think that this experience has definitely proved that it’s possible. Even if you do have interns running the show.

Anyway, I have a feeling this is going to be the last your hear from us (the interns) for a little while. But we’re still around. Working hard on all sorts of neat things. So until next time, keep on eBay’n the easy way.

ProBargainHunter.com is one of those gems of the eCommerce blogosphere that becomes “required reading” over time. He does great reviews of products and shares his insights on finding bargains online.

Earlier this month he began a list that tracks the popularity of price comparisons sites. Below are the top 10 from that list, check out his site for the rest.

#	Web Site	Alexa Rank		Page Rank		Online Since
1	shopping.yahoo.com	1(*)		9		18-Jan-1995
2	shopping.msn.com	2(*)	(n/a)	9	(n/a)	10-Nov-1994
3	froogle.google.com	3(*)		9		11-Sep-2001
4	shopping.aol.com	44(*)	(n/a)	0	(n/a)	22-Jun-1995
5	shopper.cnet.com	108(*)	(0.92%)	8		05-Jul-1996
6	nextag.com	408	(6.42%)	7		15-Oct-1998
7	shopping.com	422	(2.99%)	8		03-Jul-1997
8	pricegrabber.com	477	(1.65%)	8		10-Mar-1999
9	bizrate.com	493	(5.92%)	8		24-Apr-1996
10	shoplocal.com	702	(n/a)	7	(n/a)	24-Sep-1998

If you like this, you might also want to check out his “Social Bargain Hunting Roundup“.

Prepare to witness a “site” like none other. You will be mesmerized, tantalized, and electrified right down to your pinky toe. We the interns (aka the Permaterns) have created such a monster of a contest, we thought the perfect time to unveil it would have to be on Halloween.

“What is this contest?”, you may be asking yourself. Jason, Meagan, and I were tasked to create a T-Shirt design contest for List’d from scratch. We had to create the entire website, voting system, content, and even find ways to mass produce the awesome shirts we plan on seeing come our way.

Ok, let me be honest. At first we were told that we need to come up with a t-shirt design for List’d. Being the awesome interns that we are, we convinced upper management to trust us with creating a contest. This not only took our attention off of less exciting projects but it also gave us a venue to display our awesome talents, besides those of fetching coffee (not that we ever did that or anything).

So here are the details:

1. You can submit as many designs as you want, but you can only vote for a specific design once.
2. The top ten entries with the most votes will automatically received the new t-shirt which will be crafted from the ultimate champion winner person’s design.
3. Once we have a top ten, the Permaterns will pick the one we like the best and they will receive the grand prize in addition to their artwork on a shirt.
4. The grand prize will be a $50 iTunes music gift card that you can use through iTunes for games, movies, and of course music.
5. The contest begins November 1st and runs through November 23rd. After the 23rd, we will not receive anymore submissions but you will have an extra week to vote on your favorite design. Keep in mind that you can vote anytime you want throughout the contest.

While looking for some more RAM for my MacBook, a co-worker of mind stumbled across a great new way for me to search through items for sale on the internet. The website is called TheFind.com and it’s a new service that basically finds what you want on the internet.

“TheFind.com currently searches over 500,000 stores on the Web and finds over 150 million products – that is 5 times larger than most comparison shopping sites. We rank results by the best matches right on the first page, along with the top brands and stores for your search. With one click you can view sale or new items, easily save your favorites in a personalized list called “MyFinds”, or quickly e-mail products to friends.”

Searching for what you want couldn’t be easier. Just type in the item you are looking for, click find, sit back and wait for the searches to populate your screen. If what you start to type is common, a short list of items already used will pop-up allowing you to choose from this list. After you search, you even have the ability to filter your results by price, sale items, and/or new items. The site is still in beta but so far, so good.

You find some real deals sometimes on eBay, and the sale of Huckabuck is one of them. Huckabuck is a meta search engine that returns a compilation of search results from Google, Yahoo, MSN, Digg, Del.icio.us and Technorati. It marries the best of the established search engines with the best of the Web 2.0 social search/networks.

If you’re in the market for a meta search engine, you won’t find a better looking one, or one that does more to differentiate itself from the crowd. Take a look at the listing on eBay. Now, if only they had used List’d to create this listing… (Note to all web developers: f you’re looking to sell your Web 2.0 application on eBay, get in touch with me to help you put together the perfect listing.)

Many eBay sellers host their images on Photobucket to save money with eBay listing fees. We’re proud to announce that List’d has partnered with Photobucket to make it even easier to list an item on eBay. Anyone with a Photobucket account can easily select images from Photobucket when creating eBay listings through List’d Express.

Photobucket (www.photobucket.com), named the fastest growing site of 2005 by Nielsen/Netratings, allows members to store and share their visual digital content online, such as video, images, and graphic art. With over 22 million users growing by over 65,000 users per day, Photobucket serves over 50 billion images every month.

Of course, all users of List’d Express get free image hosting (whether using images from their own computer or Photobucket), free scheduled listings, and free listing templates. This is a partnership that makes a lot of sense for us at List’d, and we’re excited to offer it to our users.

So, what does it look like? See below:

Choosing images from “my computer”

Choosing images using the new Photobucket plugin

Again, you can choose images from both your computer and Photobucket for a listing. We hope you enjoy it. Let us know what you think in the List’d Community Forums.

(Note: our new partner, Photobucket, has just had an increased round of investment. It’s amazing to see just how popular they are.)

It’s fun to see the List’d tool start to get a few people noticing it in the Web 2.0 world. Ajaxian, a rather well known reviewer of Web 2.0 sites that use AJAX (like we do) noticed us today.

To all the non-techies out there, AJAX is the type of code we write to make the user experience better for you. AJAX makes List’d Express work fluidly and behave intelligently and that saves you extra work – you can particularly see it when using the keyword category finder.

Ina Steiner at AuctionBytes was also kind enough to think of us in her recent newsletter This & That: Online Auction Roundup. Thanks Ina, AuctionBytes is one of our daily reads, so we appreciate the nod.

It was neat to see the first international blogger pick us up, Benoit Descary from France did just that today.

Postbubble recently ran a story on us. I particularly like this one because it covers both our strategic business moves in the months ahead and also the fact that eBay’s lack of change has even allowed us to create List’d Express at all.

Other bloggers who have covered List’d Express:
World Tech Logic
Swik.net

I came across a really neat eBay and Virtual Earth Map application online by a guy named Drasko Markovic. Basically, you can search for an item and then plot it on the Virtual Earth map embedded in the screen. Screenshot below:

You can also search by zip code, which I think is a particularly neat feature (even if you’re in the UK). You can also see the price, end date, category and city for any search. All in all, a very well put-together mashup of eBay and Microsoft maps, and definately worth trying out.

“eBay Seller’s Dream: 1-Page eBay Selling Tool with AJAX”
No more going through 5 pages to list an item on eBay. A new application, List’d Express (www.listd.com) makes it simple and easy to list an item in one AJAX-enabled page. Best of all, it’s free.

Vote for it if you get a chance and have a Digg registration.

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What is also interesting is seeing some of the other bloggers who have picked up on the piece and tried the tool out. See their posts:

iBloggedThis (love the title of this blog, by the way)
Ryan’s Life
BlogCharm
PowerSellerKing

More Templates to Choose From
You can now choose from two more great looking listing templates within List’d Express. We noticed that many of our users were going with the simple yellow and black template, so we added a new magenta colored one that also has a simple and elegant layout as well.

If you’re a technology seller, you’ll be happy to see that we’ve added a new technology template that will make your tech look more professional than ever.

Lastly, there is now a “none” option. So, if you don’t want to use any template at all, choose this option. This last one was a direct request from a number of users – so, we are listening, keep talking to us.

Give List’s Express a try, it’s FREE!