Ebay is resizing my PhotoBucket images?!!

[Ivan J. Eberle]

Okay, so I upload them at 768x1024 on PhotoBucket, but eBay seems to insist on uploading them and squeezing down the resolution.

Any full res quick-fix to this?

[Brian C. Miller]

If eBay is hosting a copy of your image, then there's nothing practical you can do about it.
If eBay is placing size tags into the HTML around your image, then also, there's nothing practical you can do about it.

Perhaps placing a link in your advertisement text to better images would be the solution.

[Jeffrey Sipress]

Okay, so I upload them at 768x1024 on PhotoBucket, but eBay seems to insist on uploading them and squeezing down the resolution.

Any full res quick-fix to this?

Most certainly. Encode the url of the image file you want in the description. Don't link to a digital dumpster like pbase, photobukt or the like. And, really, don't post images over 1000 pxls. Just TOO BIG.

[Ivan J. Eberle]

So is there no way to do this in the eBay gallery?

URL linking-- how do you get around the ban on linking that eBay is going to institute starting Oct 1?

[Filmnut]

I find the pictures are too small these days, didn't they used to have larger ones?
Keith

[Ivan J. Eberle]

I thought they'd been larger until recently, and I've even bought their gallery upgrade packages hoping for larger pics... to no avail yet.

[domaz]

EBay pictures I've posted have just plain sucked. They take a 6 Megapixel image and resize it down to like 600 pixels so no one can make out any detail in your image. Maybe there is something extra I'm supposed to pay for now to get a detailed image in my auction? I did notice one auction with a interactive detailed zoom tool that I had never seen before too.

[Daniel Stone]

make a new photobucket/imageshack,etc.. account JUST for selling/ebay,etc...

this way your personal pictures don't become accessible to others you don't want seeing them. I only post one picture to ebay, and all the others I just link(or insert) on/into the listing itself.

its free anyhow(to host elsewhere than on ebay), why not do it?

-Dan

[Ivan J. Eberle]

Dan, that PB linking works really well for posting here on LFF. Your strategy (mine, too) is no longer seeming to work with eBay as it quite recently did; they seem to be crunching the images. Too, they're going to block any/all URL linking within listing, starting tomorrow.

[jnantz]

maybe they got tired of people uploading or linking to gigantic images
that made it a pain in the neck to view auction pages ?

when i see gigantic image there, or wherever, i usually skip them
they end up being huge and 72dpi and impossible to see all at once.
i don't need to see texture of faux lizard-skin ...
i can't really see how that can be a selling point, unless they are
photographs made from the lens or film or developer or ... whatever is
being sold ... or "whizz marks" on a buffed coin ...
i've got numismaphobia anyways ...