Heath, Seth and the team keep coming fast and furious with brand new module additions. The latest being a live wire right into eBay listings related to your lens. Like most of the other money generating lenses, the products displayed are triggered by keywords of your choice. I have been testing the eBay module with many of my lenses over the last few days, and I have some initial observations.

It can throw your design off with unsuitably large font sizes. This doesn’t always occur, but on several lenses it blew out the right hand margins due to the obese product title size. I’m sure this has been documented and will be remedied.

I couldn’t link to individual auctions without errors. Like the Amazon module, you can let the AI pick or enter in specific product numbers and custom descriptions. So far, I haven’t been able to link to specific auctions properly. I will undoubtedly keep trying.

You have to put a lot of faith into the AI due to the short lifespans of most of the auctions. I don’t foresee a lot of people investing the time needed to link to a specific auction and write a unique description if there are only 12 hours left until bids close. So far, the modules auto-choices leave a lot to be desired. But, of course, it depends on how general or specific your keywords are. Also, for some reason the AI tends to choose items with no photo, leaving an ugly placeholder.

A great addition to Squidoo, which has a little growing up to do yet. Ambitious, and full of future promise.

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