If you are an eBay^® seller, you may want to sell your items at higher prices. This program is for use with eBay^® to send messages to users that may be interested your selling items. The program helps you to search and fill in e-mail messages on eBay's web site. The web browser used in this program does the same thing like the other web browsers.

Installation

To install the program on your computer, you need to have a PC computer with Windows^® 95/98/NT/2000/me/XP operating system. You need an Internet connection. Follow instructions below to install it.

1. Download BoosterSetup.exe file from the Internet. You may save it to your hard disk and unzip it later by click on the Save Button when download starts.

2. BoosterSetup.exe is a self-extracting ZIP file. When you double-clcik on it to unzip the setup files, you would be asked to save the setup files to a temporary folder. You may use the default Windows^® temporary folder or any folder you want. Close the Winzip program when it finishes its work.

3. Run Setup program under the folder you just selected in step 2. Setup will install AuctionBooster program on your computer. First, you need to start Windows Explorer and find the folder you saved setup files in step 2. Double click on the Setup.exe application. Follow the instructions in the Setup. After you finish the installation, you are ready to use it.

Start AuctionBooster program

1. Connect your computer to the Internet.

2. Click on your Windows Start button. Under Programs menu, you may find Auction Booster menu. There are two icons under this menu. One is the AuctionBooster program icon and the other one is the Uninstall icon. You can start the program by click on the AuctionBooster icon under this menu. It goes to eBay's home page automatically after the program starts. See Figure 1.

Figure 1

3. Type in your searching keywords in the search window in the browser and click on Find It button. If you want to specify price range or other limitations, click on the link Smart Search. Or, you can jump into any Category you want and then search items.

4. If you want to send e-mails to active users, go to step 6. If you want to send e-mails to users in completed items, click Completed Items under Display window on left side of the browser. See Figure 2.

Figure 2

5. Go to the last list page first if there are more than one page of completed items. The reason to go to the last search page first is that the last page has the latest completed items. See Figure 3.

Figure 3

6. Type in your e-mail subject and message that you going to send to the users. Note: It's not permitted to send spam to eBay users to advertise an eBay listing or to solicit private sales outside of eBay. You may only use this eBay service to ask users other questions or if they want to receive your email. You cannot give any information regarding the item you are selling or web link to that item. If you give any of this information in the message, eBay may send you a warning. You can only ask a very general question that does not relate to your selling item. You may ask users: "Do you want to know more information regarding an item similar to what you have bided on eBay”. Once the user replies you, you can send an email directly from your own email account to the user and give detail regarding your selling item.
   
   You may check Confirm and check each e-mail option if you want to confirm each user's user ID and/or message before you send a message to the user.
   
   Select Hide web pages during searching (faster) option will speed up searching process. If you want to see detail of each page searched, uncheck this option.
   
   Click on button at the bottom to start searching and sending.

7. After the e-mail sends out, the program logs each user ID in a text file so that it remembers who you did send message to. You need to specify a log file name. See Figure 4. Give a different file name for different kinds of items if you have more than one kind of selling items. The program checks this file and it will not send duplicate e-mails to the same person for the same kind of items. If you are going to sell more than one kind of Item, remember to use a different log file name so that the program will send a different e-mail to the person even if you have sent an e-mail to that person for the other items. You may need to delete this log file manually after the auction ends. EBay^® does not allow you to keep other users information.

Figure 4

8. When the program is searching users, do not try to interrupt the program unless you want to stop the process.

9. Once the program found at least one user ID, the program may ask you to enter your user ID and password. Click Sign In button when you are finished. See Figure 5.

Figure 5

10. If you selected Confirm and check each email option, you would see the e-mail confirmation page before e-mail is sent out (Figure 6). You may make changes in the message if you want. After you confirmed the message, click on Send message button to continue. You may not see this page if you unchecked Confirm and check each e-mail option.

Figure 6

11. The auction site will send you back a deliver confirmation of this message. See Figure 7. This screen only keeps about a second. Then it will go to the next user ID.

Figure 7

12. When all e-mails have been sent, the program will return to step 5. You may go to previous completed items pages to send more e-mails.

13. You may use , , and buttons to navigate between Internet pages.

14. You may uninstall the program by clicking on these buttons: Windows Start Programs Auction Booster Uninstall icon.

Note:

• eBay® is a registered trademark of eBay, Inc.
• PayPal® is a registered trademark of PayPal, Inc.