Have an iPhone? If so, you should check out a new feature we just implemented that will allow you to receive push notifications directly to your iPhone.  So, next time you get outbid, receive a comment on your auction or win an auction, you will know right away!  This feature is being provided through the notifo service which just launched today.

You can enable this feature in your account notification settings: http://www.listia.com/account/notifications

Let us know what you think… more phones will be supported soon!

Hi everyone! This afternoon we had an unexpected problem with one of our servers due to a hardware issue at our hosting provider.  The server is now back to normal and all the data is safe, but some of your auctions may have been affected if they were ending during that time.  If you are one of the users who was affected by this, please contact us through our support site at http://help.listia.com

We will do whatever it takes to rectify the situation to your satisfaction.

We sincerely apologize for this and are taking immediate steps to reduce the likelihood of this happening again.  Thanks for your understanding and continued support!

– The Listia Team

We really needed a break from customer support this afternoon so we decided to add something fun.  I’m not sure why we didn’t have this before, but you can now become a fan of other users on the site!  Right now it’s not used for much except bragging rights (you know a leaderboard is coming for sure!), but later on we can show you more information about the users you’re fans of.  For instance auctions they have listed, recent activity, etc.

Be a fanboy (or girl)!!!  http://www.listia.com/profile/fans/9

Finally got around to posting a snazzy new banner submitted by one of our users.  Thanks Craig!  We’ll be continuously adding more of these as we get around to publishing them.  We’ll have them all listed here: http://www.listia.com/account/user_banners

Keep them coming!

Today we pushed some changes to the way credit transactions work after an auction has completed.  A lot of the old methodology is the same in terms of pending credits and users with the Seller Wings badge, but there are some changes that we hope are improvements regarding credit reversals.  You can read the full details here: http://www.listia.com/about#pending_credits (pending credits) and http://www.listia.com/about#credit_refunds (credit refunds)

We’ve had numerous requests for banner ads to help promote Listia on your favorite web sites, blogs & forums so here you go!  There are two sizes right now, 468×60 and 120×240.  We’ll be making a few more in the near future and might even take some user submissions =)  Feel free to email us if you’ve made something cool.

To find all of these visit (be sure to be logged in): http://www.listia.com/account/referral_tools

Over the past few months we’ve seen good growth on Listia and now we could use some help! We’ve posted a couple job openings here: http://www.listia.com/jobs

Currently we are looking for a Software Engineer (Ruby Rails/MySQL) and we are also starting to build up a team of Site Moderators. To apply please visit the link above for details. If you know anyone that might fit the bill let them know about our openings! We look forward to hearing from you.

We will be rolling out a new invitation and referral system shortly.  The main difference is that we are adding a 20% bonus in addition to the 50 credits users are now receiving when they successfully refer a friend!  This will mean more credits for everyone who helps to spread the word about Listia!

Want to see where you stand amongst the Listia community?  Check out our new leaderboards!  http://www.listia.com/leaderboard/auctions

We're working on some other cool stuff, just wanted to take the time to thank all of you for being a part of Listia!

We decided to make a change that we thought we would point out so it doesn’t confuse anyone.  On the auction page near the seller’s username we now print the seller feedback rating instead of that user’s overall feedback rating.  This rating excludes any feedback ratings from winning auctions.  Makes a lot more sense when you want to see which seller is reputable eh?  Hopefully this doesn’t alarm anyone if you see this and think that your feedback rating has dropped.