Product Reviews

Ebay is becoming an essential source for IT professionals looking for great-value computing kit. But whether buying or selling, you need the right tools to get the best possible value out of the deal.

If you're selling items, the single most important secret for success is presentation. A professional-looking listing will outsell an amateurish one every time. Ebay itself helpfully provides a hugely useful application to make the creating those listings offline, and uploading items in bulk in the form of the freely downloadable Turbo Lister. An easy-to-use design editor helps you get to grips with text formatting and graphics layout, while essentials such as postage costs, payment methods and the ability to specify buyer requirements (blocking buyers from countries to which you don't ship, for example) are all to hand.