Photos for selling on eBay

EBay gives you one free photo and charges for the rest. When you're selling a coin, you want to put up a pic of both sides, so that means you need two photos. I've noticed a lot of auctions have multiple larger photos in the body of the listing, but just one photo in the eBay spot. How can I get photos in the body of a listing like these people do? I was thinking of listing some coins for 99 cents that will probably only get one bid and I need to save money on everything I can.

 

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Hmmm... I get 12 free photos. Maybe because of power seller status, but I'm not sure. You can always embed photos into the body of the auction description by using basic HTML.. just like we did back in the 90's!

 

Why not link photobucket pictures in the listing?

 

I'll have to see if that works... but it would have to appear as a photo and not a link. I know it works here but I've never tried it on an auction page.

 

Auctiva.com

 

That would work:
Using Auctiva, you can place up to 24 images in each listing using the Image Selection section of the one-page lister. These images will be added and supersized without additional eBay fees. You can add more images (that will not be supersized) into the Item Description area of your listing using the little yellow "Insert" image buttons on the far right of the Standard mode text editor of the one-page lister.

 

When I list coins on eBay, I post two photos. The obverse of the coin, which is free. And the reverse, which costs a whopping .15 cents. To me it's worth it to show the reverse to potential buyers.

You can't even buy a gumball for .15c any more.

 

Look using photobucket I did it for free in this listing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170612441361

 

Auctiva appears to have a fee also. I was hoping there was an easy, free way that I just didn't know about. I'd like to know if the photobucket option really works.

 

Yes, Photobucket has free accounts and you can post images on eBay from your Photobucket account.

Auctiva has a 30 day free trial, but fees do apply after that. Watch their how it works / promo video on the homepage and you can see who it is an effective tool if you sell a lot and are also looking for other tools to show off your items, quicken/simplify listing procedures and get super sized images.

 

Another option is free photo editing software like from here. http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/download.php
This allows you to combine two photos(one of the obverse and one of the reverse) into one, so you wouldn't need to pay for an extra pic.

 

Photobucket has basic photo editing tools as well.

 

I use photo bucket, on the ebay listing, you have two tabs one is what your gonna say and the other says HTML copy and paste your html pics into that section and bada boom!

 

I have Photoshop and I thought of doing that, but I thought it would probably end up being zoomed out too much. People want to be able to see the details on a coin. It sounds like Photobucket works so I'll check that out.

 

Yes the photobucket images are very large

 

Exactly what I was thinking... Never sold on Ebay, but when I do combine photos I use PhotoShop to enlarge the canvas and copy/paste function.

 

What I use from Photobucket, is the "Direct Link" code imbedded into an IMG HTML Tag.

It looks like this:

<IMG src="photobucket-direct-link-code">

For example:

<IMG src="http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u8/lcl1119/For%20Sale/Kennedy1974-D10703269PCGSMS63DDOMer.jpg">

Try it. Cut and paste the above into a dummy eBay auction and preview the listing. Be sure to use the HTML for of inputting the above code. You can switch back and forth between STANDARD and HTML with no adverse affects.

I have no problem at all other than having to resize and upload my images.

I also get 12 free photo's on ebay and MUCH prefer that over the photobucket coding. I don;t know why I get 12 free photo's but then I also don;t know why some folks get 100 free listing a month since I don't get ANY free listing in a month.

 

Just open an ebay window and a photobucket window. Drag and drop the photo/s from photobucket, straight onto the body of your listing and BAM! you did it.

 

Exactly how I do it...use the one free so that it shows an image in the gallery and then I embed all of the rest directly in my listing using turb lister....quick painless and I can control how many images and how big I want them.

 

I use photobucket and paste the html code in the body of my listings. You will have to play with the size of the files though. Some images come out way too large and on slower computers your potential customers may not wait for your photos to load.