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Just imagine sitting on your couch in the living room with your remote in the hand while you search, browse, bid or buy on eBay®! This is exactly, what mceAuction does. It brings eBay to your living room on your Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition®.
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition® is the perfect Windows for your living room: it is a normal Windows XP with added entertainment-functionality like TV recording, DVD playback, all your music, photos, and videos, radio, Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) and much more... The hardware is not that expensive as you may think. Prebuilt systems with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition® are sold at your favorite Online store. |
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Two features in this software are absolute new and unique:
#1: Get notifications directly on your TV (whatever you just do with your Media Center like watching live TV, watching a DVD, ...) if
 items you are watching in "my eBay" ending in a few minutes (minutes before alert is choosable)
you got outbid in an auction
someone has bought an item from your auctions
an auction for an item you are selling is ending in a few minutes (minutes choosable)
You will never miss the end of an auction again because you are watching TV!
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#2: See item's location in Google Maps®:
You can see every item's location worldwide in a map, in a satellite map or in hybrid view (satellite with map overlay). No additional software needs to be installed. You can zoom and pan the map just with your remote control to see the vicinity of the item's location.
This works for every auction in the world if the seller has entered a reasonable item location that can be located by Google Maps®. |
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mceAuction covers the main areas of eBay®. You can search for an auction (You can select the main eBay category to search):
Or just browse in the eBay categories and look what other people sell:
All relevant information of an item is shown by the software:
(detailed view of an auction) |
(description can bee zoomed for better display on tv) |
| You can see every image the seller has provided for the auction: |
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| New in version 2 are the detailed pages for shipping costs, article attributes and payment options: |
(list all payment options for each auction) |
(list all attributes set by the seller) |
This software gives you a complete new feeling of eBay: If an end of auction comes nearer and you are in on the detail's page, a realtime countdown will be shown. The current highbidder is reloaded frequently so that you will see if you have to place a higher bid to win this auction.
You can even buy an item with your remote control immediately, if you like ("Buy Now") or place a bid on auctions.
(integrates seemlessly into Windows Vista)
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Every bid or buy has to be confirmed again to eliminate accidential bids:
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Imagine this scenario: while browsing around in eBay auction from the office, you find a longly searched item. You just add it to your watchlist in "my eBay" from your office PC. A few days later, you are watching tv in the evening on using your Windows XP Media Center Edition to have the comfort of timeshift, EPG and other features. Suddenly, a notification pops up live on your tv screen showing that your watched eBay aution will end in 5 minutes!
You pause live tv, open the specific auction and place the winning bid just with your remote control. Then you go back to your paused live tv and continue watching without having missed a single second.
A dream? No! Just install mceAuction on your Windows XP Media Center Edition on your living room media center PC.
Nearly all eBay sites all around the world can be used with this plugin (currently, 23 sites are supported). You can add eBay users to the program which can be easily switched. This way, every family member has it's own eBay username in this software. When you start the plugin, the last seen auctions are shown to navigate fast to the last items or have a quick look how an auction is envolving.
(every family member can add his own eBay user account) |
(access "my eBay" through the program) |
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Even "my eBay" can be accessed through the plugin:
The sections "I watch", "I bid", "I won", "I lost", "I sell", "I have sold" and "Unsold items" can be shown with all auctions in it. There is also a list available of auctions ending soon.
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(my eBay with "darklue" skin chosen. multiple skins available) |
This program is officially certified by eBay® as  . This means that all transactions with the eBay-Servers have been checked by eBay and do the right things and only the action they are announced as.
Windows XP Media Center Edition™, eBay® and other trademarks mentioned on this site are the property of their respective owners.
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