Browse eBay by Photos with PicClick

By Sean Percival on July 27th, 2009

In this guest post, Ryan Sit shares his secrets on how to visually find eBay items 10x faster using PicClick. Ryan is the founder of PicClick, and created PicClick out of his own frustration with eBay.com’s slow and inefficient website.

“Just show me all the pictures!”
That is what was screaming inside my head when I was looking for an old childhood Snoopy cup.
At eBay.com I could only see 6 results at a time and had to do a bunch of scrolling, plus over the years eBay has just become too cluttered. I just wanted my own simple, clean, and fast way to browse eBay, and that is why I created PicClick, so I could see all the snoopy cups on 1 page.

For book collectors, here is the collectible books section on PicClick:

PicClick has everything eBay.com has, plus you have all your normal handy things like filtering and sorting.

All the important item information is also included below the thumbnail in a compact format:

Now for the Top 3 secret tips for using PicClick to find things 10x faster:

Zoom & Full screen – PicClick will show as many thumbnails as it can to fill your entire monitor.
So if you maximize your window, you can scan hundreds of eBay items at 1 time.
Plus you can use the slider on the top right to zoom in and out and make the thumbnails larger or smaller.
Sorting – Using sorting on the top left is very important for finding things.
If I’m just doing general searches, sorting by “Best Match” is best.
If I am tracking an item daily and looking for new auctions, sort by “Newly Listed”.
When I am scanning for good deals people missed, I sort by “Lowest Price” or “Ending Soon”.
RSS feeds – This a bit techie, but RSS feeds are a huge time saver.
PicClick creates RSS feeds for any query or filter.
This is great for keeping track of specific things you want to check daily.
In most new web browsers you can click the RSS button in the toolbar to see the RSS feed.
Then you can grab that feed and subscribe to it using an RSS reader or using your email program.
If you don’t know what RSS is, don’t worry about it, but if you do you’ll know how this can be a huge time saver.