Control

Description

Items per page

This is the number of eBay items you want to see on a tab page. Your computer and network speed will determine how responsive each page feels. If you find performance too sluggish, you can try reducing this number.

Result formats

There are a number of ways that you can customize how items are presented. Click the Customize button to bring up the Customize Format dialog box.

Use listing image instead of picture icon

eBay shows a "Listing Has Pictures" () icon when the seller chooses not to pay for a gallery image. If this box is checked, Prospector will show a picture from the listing when one is available (i.e. whenever and after the listing is retrieved). This can impact performance if there are large listing images (these are determined by the seller) since Prospector has to fetch and shrink these images. This option is therefore only recommended if you are on a high speed internet connection.

Open result listings in a dedicated secondary browser

If selected, clicking on Prospector result links or images would open the documents in a separate result browser. You may find this useful if you have a lot of screen real estate as may be the case if you have a multiple monitor setup.

Play a sound when new listings are found

Select this if you'd like to hear a sound when new listings are found at the end of a search update.

The Choose button lets you pick a .WAV file.

The Test button plays the sound that's currently set.

For more choices, Windows places its .WAV files in the Windows directory's Media folder (e.g. C:\Windows\Media). You can also search the web for more files.

Email notification of latest listings

Set up your email information for new listing notifications.

Item

Description

Sender's e-mail address

This is the e-mail address that will identify who the e-mail is from (me@home.com in the example).

Recipient's e-mail address

This is the where the e-mail notification should go (me@otherplace.com in the example).

Recipient's e-mail (SMTP) server port

For unencrypted SMTP connections, this is typically 25.

For Gmail and Yahoo Plus, this is 465.

Recipient's e-mail (SMTP) server

Prospector talks directly with the e-mail server that handles the recipient's e-mail. As such, the server's name is needed. This information can likely be gotten through the ISP, the IT department, or the System Administrator.

Typically, the server address will have a "mail." or an "smtp." prefix (mail.otherplace.com in the example).

For Gmail, use smtp.gmail.com

For Yahoo Plus, use smtp.mail.yahoo.com

Recipient's e-mail server requires a secure SSL connection

Select this if the SMTP server requires an SSL connection.

For Gmail and Yahoo Plus, this needs to be checked.

Recipient's e-mail server requires authentication

If the mail server requires you to provide a login and password, check the box and enter the information here.

For Gmail and Yahoo Plus, this needs to be selected and you need to specify your e-mail account login and password.

Send as HTML

Check this if your email client (e.g. Microsoft Outlook) accepts HTML email. Prospector will generate clickable links to the item listings if so. If not, plain text will be used.

Test Message

After you've entered the addresses, you can use this to confirm the settings.