Dave
even when I did sell on fleaBay (pre-2005) I always used my own
picture hosting.
simply said.. I don't want anyone controlling something they don't
have to including fleaBay's image representation which sucks on every
level. As you well know, I include top quality images that are not
pixelated. Pixelation has always been a problem at fleaBay, plus they
don't want to be hosting what must amount to possibly billions of
images or at least 100's of millions of them, causing them to decide
what THEY will allow as opposed to what I want to show.
I think it is a mistake to not self host in any case, and what's
happening now is the best example of that.
fleaBay doesn't understand why you need to see good pics for
collectible items and shoes or refrigerators or cameras don't have
the same dynamic. Any stock image serves for those items. Now you're
at fleaBay's mercy in yet another area
At 12:11 PM 11/10/2010, Dave Rosen wrote:
Rich
Speaking for myself, I never had pictures within the description
area of my listings. It wasn't necessary since I could just link to
the same image using the eBay picture loader's self-host option.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Richard Halegua Comic Art
To: <mailto:[email protected]>Dave Rosen ;
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] eBay Sellers: Check your pictures
Dave
I'm not sure why any sellers who can self host ever stopped putting
pictures within the description area of their listings.
It never made any sense to me
Rich
At 06:57 AM 11/10/2010, Dave Rosen wrote:
While adding some listings yesterday I noticed that my self-hosted
pics are turning up at half the size they should be.
The reason I self-host is so I can post large images so potential
customers get a better idea of the condition of the item. (eBay
hosted pics are heavily compressed and near-useless.)
Anyway, it turns out eBay (in its usual if-it's-fixed-break-it
mode) arbitrarily went ahead and resized all the self-hosted pics
to resolve what was really a non-issue (broken links to a few
self-hosted images).
The explanation is here (scroll down to eBay's response to complaints):
<http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Photos-Html/Ebay-Resizing-Self/510276245&start=0>http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Photos-Html/Ebay-Resizing-Self/510276245&start=0
To summarize: eBay's answer to complaints was to suggest sellers
insert HTML pointing to their self-hosted images in the text of
their listings. In my case, that would mean editing over 250
listings in my eBay store. For others, it will mean editing
hundreds or even thousands of listings. Great solution.
Just thought some of the sellers who post on here should know,
since eBay never gave notice it was planning on doing this...
Thanks,
Dave
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