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I'm going over all my accounts that I pay fees to every month, and picture hosting is a very small amount I pay every month ($10.00), but I am thinking of changing to Sellers Sourcebook from Andale.
I would only be saving $2.00 a month, but I would be gaining a lot more storage room for pictures in the event I wanted to leave them up longer after the auction closes.
Plus I like the idea of not paying BayPal companies any more of my money, and would rather support another firm. Has anyone used this company, and is the interface clean and easy to attach pix to auctions?
http://www.sellersourcebook.com/index.html
Thanks.
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For $8 a month, anyone can own a domain where they could host far more images (and a website!) than these accounts will ever provide. I really don't get the attraction of paying others for photo hosting, unless it's just the laziness of not wanting to learn how to FTP.
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Originally Posted by stevemills
For $8 a month, anyone can own a domain where they could host far more images (and a website!) than these accounts will ever provide. I really don't get the attraction of paying others for photo hosting, unless it's just the laziness of not wanting to learn how to FTP.
They offer more than picture hosting, more to it than that.
Also, for posting 6 pictures in one listing, there is a good interface that works by ebay item number. It is not simple hosting you get. But that interface.
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What interface? They offer a listing generator, an About Me Page generator and auction templates. All of these are free elsewhere, though eBay charges for their designs. There is no advantage with this site.
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Originally Posted by stevemills
What interface? They offer a listing generator, an About Me Page generator and auction templates. All of these are free elsewhere, though eBay charges for their designs. There is no advantage with this site.
The interface that allows you to select 6 pictures out of say hundreds you have up, drop in an ebay item number, click attach to ad/full size, and then all pictures (as many as you want) appear in that ebay listing.
I don't see how it could be eaiser without that interface. I like being able to attach as many pictures to a listing as I want with a couple of clicks.
I know you have no need for several pictures on one listing, but I do.
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And before you sent these images to SellerResource for your viewing convenience, how did you know which ones to send? My point is that you already had to edit, preview and upload these images, same as the rest of us. After that, there's little difference between having a website design your auction html or designing it yourself. You still have to list it with eBay. I'm not impressed with paying a site $8/mo so I can have photo previews while I edit a listing.
Speaking of which, you mentioned adding an eBay item number to what you are doing. My reading of the website tells me they don't do any uploading to eBay, that you still have to do it manually or use TL. What did you mean?
btw, I do sometimes sell items that require a few photos. I can't imagine using more than six for anything, but I suppose there is the need sometimes. Still, I know which images I want without needing to see them on a website, I have them up in Adobe already.
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Originally Posted by stevemills
Speaking of which, you mentioned adding an eBay item number to what you are doing. My reading of the website tells me they don't do any uploading to eBay, that you still have to do it manually or use TL. What did you mean?
Of course you have to edit your own photos and decide which are worth using. There is no magic program that can do that work for you regardless if you use a service or your own hosted site.
Andale (and I think others?) has the gallery of pictures. You can select which of these pictures you wish to link to an auction listing (regardless of have many), and then just drop in the auction item number (once), and hit attach. You must set up your account in advance with ebay account abviously.
It then attaches all those pictures to your description at once with one click.
That is the feature that is very quick and easy. And all my auctions have at least two pictures, but often three or four.
I'm not sure if a standard ftp site will work with that simplicity, and let you attach four pictures with a click of the mouse.
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Again, I'm telling you I don't need that "simplicity", if you want to call it that. I like to arrange the photos the way I want to see them, size them how I want, and put all of this together with a few simple mouse clicks. I'm very comfortable editing a little html (I use Front Page, mostly, in such cases), uploading to and maintaining my own ftp collectionf of images, and I design my own templates. I don't think I'm all that unusual.
What I'm looking for in what you are supporting here is a true advantage, a reason to abandon another plan, and other than saying I can click a few photos into place, I don't see one. Not one worth money, anyway. If it works for you, that's great, but I don't see where people are going to find something that will cause them to change horses.
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I would NOT use Sellers Sourcebook if I were you! I used them for templates for about a year and then decided I didn't want to use them anymore.....well, all 5,000+ of my auctions had their template because I had used them for over a year, the moment I discontinued my membership they emailed telling me I HAD to remove their templates....mind you, these were templates I had paid for for over a year and in order to take them out I would've had to revise EACH of 5,000+ auctions. When I tried to talk to them about leaving the templates in them and that none of my new listings would have their templates, they flatly refused and accused me of stealing their template images and had EVERY ONE of my listings cancelled on eBay (try waking up to THAT one morning, I thought I was having an honest to goodness heart attack!)