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Topic: ebay question
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Hooskdaddy
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posted July 14, 2013 07:33 AM
      
So with posting eBay auctions. As of July 1st eBay has requirements for pictures used in auctions. I used to just copy and paste the link location from gatherer on the mother ship into the auction for my pictures. Now doing that says that the pictures aren't big enough and they don't meet the requirements. So my question is is how are sellers getting around that? Is there another way to copy/paste pics into the auction? Doing it the long way isn't an option.
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Devonin
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posted July 14, 2013 07:38 AM
 
Why isn't it an option?Edit: Wait...you just paste in links from gatherer as the pictures of cards you're selling? That's actually fraud. You're selling secondary market goods that are definitionally used now, even if it's a sealed booster box which is still sealed. You need to post actual images of the actual item the person will receive.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by Devonin on July 14, 2013]
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Hooskdaddy
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posted July 14, 2013 07:57 AM
Obviously I post item descriptions. And its not fraud. Look into the photos used on eBay, dan bock, and everyone else uses stock photos, most come from gatherer. Its almost impossible not to if you mass upload auctions. Taking pictures and uploading them is ridiculous and very few people actually do it and they're not mass uploading.I even put in my auctions description that I use stock photos. The problems is is the stock photos don't meet the 500 pixel on longest side limit.
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Devonin
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posted July 14, 2013 08:09 AM
So go to http://pixlr.com/editor/ upload the picture from gatherer, stretch/skew it up to the right size, save it, and then when you're done, mass upload them to photobucket or something like photobucket.
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Hooskdaddy
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posted July 14, 2013 08:50 AM
Yeah was hoping there was another copy/paste method. No time to do all that resizing
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Devonin
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posted July 14, 2013 09:54 AM
If your sales volume is so high that 30 seconds per listing is completely impossible to ever do, you should be making enough to hire some dude to do it for you.
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slurpee
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posted July 14, 2013 10:27 AM
just scan a copy of the back of a magic card. most people use stock pics anyways
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valorale
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posted July 15, 2013 06:59 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Hooskdaddy:
So with posting eBay auctions. As of July 1st eBay has requirements for pictures used in auctions.
Another reason im using TCGplayer more and more to unload modern + standard stuff. Absolutely frustrating waste of time.
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Hooskdaddy
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posted July 15, 2013 09:40 AM
quote:
Originally posted by valorale:
Another reason im using TCGplayer more and more to unload modern + standard stuff. Absolutely frustrating waste of time.
Yeah. Tcgplayer has its issues as well. Takes weeks to get money. Stuffsells overall for a lot less. Fees eat up profits. Between that and eBay I'm not sure which one is worse lol
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I3Iood
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posted July 15, 2013 10:47 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Devonin:
Edit: Wait...you just paste in links from gatherer as the pictures of cards you're selling? That's actually fraud.
LOL quote:
Originally posted by Hooskdaddy:
Doing it the long way isn't an option.
quote:
Originally posted by Hooskdaddy:
Yeah was hoping there was another copy/paste method. No time to do all that resizing
It takes work to make money. Put in the work or stop using it. We just paid our ebay guy to fix the 350 BINs we have on our ebay store. Nothing is free..... quote:
Originally posted by Devonin:
If your sales volume is so high that 30 seconds per listing is completely impossible to ever do, you should be making enough to hire some dude to do it for you.
Great advice
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mm1983
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posted July 15, 2013 12:58 PM
My friend and I are going through this problem right now. If you had listed items before July 1, the same pictures would work just fine but from July 1 on requires larger pictures. For my situation this means having to find about 1,000 new pictures that fit the size requirement whether I am selling the item or not but it's going to be a pain figuring out which items I have and don't have anymore so I am just going to get new pictures for each card that I am selling or was selling in the past. Either way when we get our listing started it's going to be well over 500 items listed. This new Ebay change for the pictures has definitely set us back about a month for listing.
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Volcanon
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posted July 15, 2013 06:03 PM
Taking your own pictures is a pain in the butt for stuff that is NM. It's not like the buyer really cares. Most of my pics are from google image search. Just find one that isn't watermarked or postage stamp size.
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Hooskdaddy
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posted July 15, 2013 07:13 PM
I actually started the process today. I took the pics from gatherer and resized them using pixlr.com and saved them on my hard drive. Got about 200 done only 800 or so more to go.
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mcelraca
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posted July 15, 2013 09:33 PM
I think a lot of what you have to do is dependent on your reputation on eBay and your approach to selling.You can be
A. The seller with a high volume of sales at attractive prices and mediocre listings.
B. the seller with an average price but great presentation. I've purchased many cards with no pics from sellers as long as they have a substantial amount of good feedback (on eBay mind you) another option: I've seen a lot of sellers go by way of using shots of binder pages while the sale refers to only one of the cards. This may not be the best route but is an option to speed up the process. I would personally just start cataloging photos of cards you sell, so you only have to do it once. I want to reiterate what blood said. It takes work, you just have to decide how much time you want to put in and what kind of sales you're after.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by mcelraca on July 15, 2013]
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Gislasa
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posted July 16, 2013 05:12 PM
Personally I am big on condition, if I pay for NM, and it has a ding in it which would cause a buyer like cardkingdom to pay me less for it, then I send it back. Having an actual picture of the card really helps, so I know it fits my definition of NM, and it isnt SP or EX+. If your listing is for more then $10, I would highly suggest taking 30 seconds to upload a real picture to save much more time dealing with a return.
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