Direct to eBay

Josh McCoy

Gillian Smith

Motivation

Buddha Life

Thangka Painting Water color with 24kt

gold paint 15” x 19” $65.60

All items shown available on Third World Craft Nepal: http://www.thirdworldcraft.com/EN/

Copper teapot Highly detailed $12.90

Motivation

Kumari Mask (Living Goddess of Nepal)

11” x 8.6” $3.70

Motivation

Motivation

Solution Use phone to

communicate directly with eBay

Prototype Send MMS to server Server puts up auction MMS back to phone on

auction end

Design Decisions

Established standards MMS IMAP/SMTP XML

Simplicity Automation

An Application on the Phone

Pros More information Reliable structure for data Better interface

Cons Distribution to users Programmable phone availability

Proposed Extensions

Remove email dependency Get summary of auctions’ statuses Maintain history of seller auctions Additional information about seller on auction

site

Demo