Preventing Image Theft

If you’re like me, auction pictures are the most time consuming part of the eBay selling process. The investment in time and effort required to produce a photo for an effective auction listing is significant. After meticulously adjusting the lighting, experimenting with various angles, editing, cropping, and finally, uploading the picture to your image host, it’s extremely infuriating to find your picture on a competitor’s listing. Frustrating as it is, there are several courses of action available to deter and deal with image fraud. Read more

Jan

14

How not to list an auction

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Here’s an auction I just can’t figure out. There’s no picture, no HTML, and no template.

The description is a whopping 75 words and the terms are an amazing 785 words.

I guess the seller’s feedback score (2625) allows her to be successful with such a counter-intuitive auction listing format.

… It just makes you wonder how successful this seller could be with a picture and a simple template?

Anyway, here it is…
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Jan

4

Powerful Auction Titles: Your First Step to eBay Success…

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One of the most important aspects about your auction listing is the title. On eBay, the title is limited to 55 spaces. The words you employ in that limited space must be carefully crafted to appear in bidders’ search results and get the click once found. Read more

Dec

19

Add an Interactive Picture Gallery to your Listings

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Interested in adding an interactive picture gallery to your listing but cringe at the fees eBay charges you for the service? Here’s a way you can do it using your own image hosting solutions.

This is an example of what I’ve been putting on my recent auctions:

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