Chris Gilmer , Monday, June 19th, 2006

Ebay has unleached a new service - SMS Alerts. The whole purpose of these alerts are to keep bidders ahead of the pack, and win their desired ebay item.

You are connected to ebay, and your desired product at all times through ebays SMS alerts. The ebay system notifies you by alerts to bid on items. The ebay system notifies you with Outbid and Item Ending Soon alerts. This service is considered a premium SMS message, and could be charged 25cents per message.

Besides Ebay’s SMS notifications, they also have a Phone Call alert program, and an Instant message alert system through AOL, MSN, and Yahoo instant messenger systems.