Comments on: Spoonfeeder shutting up shop?

By: Linda Pinchin

Linda Pinchin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:40:37 +0000

I am a paid member of Spoonfeeder. I hav’nt recieved any e-mail to say that it is ending. No doubt
we wont be getting a refund of what is owing. I am also with another site which does template’s etc which is called Picnik, it only cost £6 to join for the year and you can also alter your photo’s i.e putting lipstick on/foundation to be honest it is 100% better than spoonfeeder anyway. I also used that site aswell as spoonfeeder.
Linda.
P.s Thanks for the E-mail/letting me know ( NOT )

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:50:41 +0000

hellooooooooooo most of us here are in europe
ebay uk is our main listing site

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:59:22 +0000

SpoonFeeder customers should try Vendio for their listing. We have an easy eBay export which imports directly into Vendio. Vendio also comes with Amazon sales automation and a free online store.

Customers can try free for 60 days at http://www.vendio.com

Helen

By: Mike Hansen

Mike Hansen — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:29:49 +0000

The spoonfeeder website is totally gone now. Even emails to their domain addresses bounce. I only received the one email from them and then poof! gone! Oh well, too hard of a program to master anyways, time to search for a new ebay tool.
-Mike

By: philippe ricoux

philippe ricoux — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:59:50 +0000

hi
i saved all my listing on inkfrog as many of us, but i still use spoonfeder to list my items, you just have to upload your pictures on inkfrog or photobucket or any other you want and use “add photo using internet web adress” on photos list, if you have a spoonfeeder template you will have to save also the template pictures and change the links on the template
hope it will help
dont hesitate to ask for more info on pr76@free.fr
phil

By: Emily Hart

Emily Hart — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:04:59 +0000

I have used Spoonfeeder for five years and for a U.S. based ebay store with an owner in Canada it was superb… someone needs to buy this company and get it up and running again… Inkfrog is hosting my listings on a free trial but I can’t get Inkfrog to work for me with an address in Canada and an ebay.com store. It just won’t work and no help from the support team that makes any sense to me. Can anyone suggest an alternative that will host 20 or more very large photos for every listing… this is my living… I am near having a panic attack…

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:25:06 +0000

We don’t sell much on eBay due to what we do but you could contact Just Applications as we user their listing tool Ad-lister. However, you may need to convince them to just offer the software at a fee as we had the store branded as well.

By: Dan Widdison

Dan Widdison — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:47:20 +0000

I have used SF since 2004 & its always been pretty good! Support was good too. A bit shocked at hoq abruptly it ended but i would happily pay and extra 10p per auction towards them or a yearly subscription of up to £50. Shame they are going. Thanks to all the staff who did make it possible for as long as they did though. Im now looking for an alternative.

By: philippe ricoux

philippe ricoux — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:48:09 +0000

free that is maybe the problem how can we trust again a free system??? i have transfered all my 500 listing with inkfrog in less than 1/2 hour this morning to be safe, great time saving, inkfrog look much more easy to use than auctiva for example and much cheaper…
phil

By: sarah Jayne

sarah Jayne — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:33:17 +0000

I had previously used Spoon Feeder and now I am using Auction Splash and I think its Great! Thank you for having a really useful, free product!

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:16:59 +0000

I was a paid subscriber to Spoonfeeder and absolutely love the program. Any software that helps make your work go easier is always worth paying for, in my opinion.
I received the first email that said SpoonFeeder charged $10.00 for my monthly February subscription payment via paypal. The second email arrived SIX seconds later ~ We are OUT OF BUSINESS!
Could the timing have had something to do with getting one last payment out of your paid subscribers???? Hard to believe you had no knowledge that you were going to shut down. Who cares about the $10.00! I have a problem with the fact that they just dumped on all of their loyal subscribers and gave them no advance notice so they could
get set up with another program.
………. Just sayin’

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:01:55 +0000

I would recommend that what ever service or listing tool people use, the first image (gallery) should be hosted by eBay.

By: David

David — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:48:44 +0000

Thanks for posting this. Glad to see there are still some no-charge solutions in the marketplace. Can you use AuctionSplash strictly for scheduling listings, and continue to use eBay for checkout and all other functions… plus use your own photo hosting?

By: David

David — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:41:19 +0000

I found this site… Auction Zealot.

I haven’t tried it but it’s completely free, so hey it’s worth a try:
http://www.auctionzealot.com/

You can also get a basic Auctiva account for only $2.95 per month, it’s a tried and true solution, easy to use.

By: David

David — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:37:26 +0000

Luckily I never utilized Spoonfeeder templates or any of that extra stuff. I created all my HTML from scratch using Dreamweaver and I use Photobucket for image hosting. Always keep it as simple as possible, then you are not completely dependent on any one system.

As far as using templates, I never found that the use of templates increased sales. On the contrary, the cleanest, simplest listings always perform the best. Right now Spoonfeeder is still working for everything I need it for. Who knows how long that will last. Good luck everyone!

By: David

David — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:35:21 +0000

Thanks Phil that is a Godsend!!

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:23:24 +0000

For those of you sticking with Spoonfeeder for now you could use a photo hosting site with FTP.
I used Photobucket ($40 for two years) and then uploaded the Spoonfeeder template images to a folder there. I then did a find and replace in the template and replaced all references to the pictures.spoonfeeder site with the photobucket location.
I then set Spoonfeeder to FTP the listing images to photobucket.
To test this I then edited a Spoonfeeder listing and then did a Web Preview and it did upload all my images to the new host and the listing did work.
My only reason for now pursuing this was the knowledge that it is only a stop gap and that the inkfring solution appeared to be more robust… I still have the option to go back and keep checking whether Spoonfeeder works if things with Inkfrog don’t work out.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:11:42 +0000

I have used Spoonfeeder for 4 years and it help take me to powerseller level and get over all the ‘humps’ eBay put in the way recently. To lose Spoonfeeder is a massive blow. I thought long and hard about how to make it work without the hosting, but it all got too difficult.
I am now busy converting over 400 listings to inkfrog. I am already seeing pictures disapear and will have to act quickly. Many of the template images have already gone so my listings look awful, but they are still there and I have a while to try to make them work.
For those sticking with it I have v 5.96 of the software and could upload it to a fileshare site – bob_b@bsquared.demon.co.uk if you are interested…

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:02:11 +0000

Very sorry to see SpoonFeeder go. The eBay software market is a huge one and there is enough room for a quite a few listing products. AuctionSplash has more current users than SpoonFeeder and as the developer for AuctionSplash I would like to invite you to take a look at http://www.auctionsplash.com AuctionSplash is free, PC based and has as many features as SpoonFeeder with some more as well. We are also introducing a web version of AuctionSplash in the next week and this will also be free.
Please take a look, AuctionSplash might be just what you need.

By: Angie

Angie — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:52:54 +0000

What a shame – brilliant site – can anyone tell me the best site to go to now that doesnt charge for additional photos,and will scheldule upload as I mainly do low cost items for a charity.RIP Spoonfeeder -

By: philippe ricoux

philippe ricoux — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:28:38 +0000

i put the version 5.96 online (4/01/2010) you can download it at http://cid-4387dcddc7591248.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/.Public/SPOONFEEDER?uc=1
phil

By: Sue Bailey

Sue Bailey — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:37:08 +0000

Thanks for posting that, Dollie – should be useful for a lot of people.

By: Dollies Place

Dollies Place — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:28:27 +0000

Inkfrog has created a special importer for SpoonFeeder Refugees.

http://community.inkfrog.com/showthread.php?t=23037&highlight=spoonfeeder

By: David

David — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:54:08 +0000

I’m running ver. 4.51
If someone could please shoot me the 4.89 update I would really appreciate it.
funzpoppin@yahoo.com

Thanks!

By: wayne

wayne — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:15:03 +0000

if they can get the site back on the server and put a $5 per month to see how it goes , dont know how much work to do this lol, but im sure its worth a try , just send a bulk email asking for support , to see how much feedback they get hopefully it will work