Why Pay for Auction Image Hosting

According to the book eBay Power Selling Secrets, “Image hosting services provide one of the best ways to distinguish your auctions from those created by sellers without power seller aspirations.” While free image hosting services are readily available for the frugal eBay seller, they can have some significant disadvantages. These drawbacks include:

A limited number of images or restrictions on total file size.
A limited amount of time the images can remain on the server.
No customer service.
Ads that can slow down the load time of your auction listing, distract potential bidders or slow the listing process.
Reliability issues.
Server speed issues.

If you are posting more than one photo per auction listing, eBay’s image hosting service can rapidly become prohibitively expensive. So what is a aspiring power seller to do? Investigate several of the numerous paid auction image hosting services offered on the internet these days. Besides a competive price advantage over eBay, paid hosting services generally offer other distinct benefits over free image hosting services, including:

Clearer, bigger images.
Hosting multiple photographs over an extended/unlimited period of time.
Including features such as image galleries and free auction templates.
Online editing.
Guaranteed reliability.

The difference between a clear, fast-loading auction photo and the dreaded broken image icon will make or break your auctions. For many eBay sellers, paid auction picture hosting is the right choice for them.