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 ...

[goamules]

When I embed image links with HTML from my host, Ebay doesn't touch the code. I upload my auctions with TurboLister.

There is a size limit when you upload pictures through the Ebay system, and perhaps also if you are browsing through their system to Photobucket.


...Too, they're going to block any/all URL linking within listing, starting tomorrow.

You are kidding me?! Does that include <img> tags in the code? Did you read this officially? The main reason I, and everyone, embeds larger pictures is because the native Ebay sizes are tiny and useless. Of course, I remember the days when you had to PAY to put in pictures, and PAY to have larger ones on FeeBay.

[Richard K.]

Does this mean that the little Maple Leaf logo I use in my ads or the "Hello from Etobicoke" .JPG will not be allowed? How will one imbed high quality photos in the body of the ad then? I want people to SEE them not link to them! If I was to list several things tonight, will the photo links disappear tomorrow? Thank you if you know! This really sucks! But I find that with international selling I often get more on eBay than say here on the forum. Shame to lose this service...

[Daniel Stone]

ebay's like Kodak, they're trying to please the share-holders, rather than the customers...

stupid pencil pusher desk-jockey suited big-whigs... all they think about is the money...

I mean, George Eastman was a nut $$$-wise(ever see that documentary on him?):
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfhsM15nElM&feature=player_detailpage
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwBlf3AeLRM&feature=player_detailpage
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxwn2wQNVXs&feature=player_detailpage

but he knew what would sell. He had foresight. But that's when everyone used film, no digital...But its still the same philosophy, if you have something that works, why change? "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Just better it :)

-Dan

[Ivan J. Eberle]

Yes, the fine print sucks, but that's pretty much the story wherever and whenever you post on the internet. Everything uploaded to the web is for all intents and purposes, public-- stored on servers forever, and someone is likely to appropriate it. But I really don't give much of a hoot what happens to the images of eBay stuff I've sold unless somebody tries to appropriate it as their own stuff. Most everything I do have concerns about gets prominently watermarked.