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I had spoken to Jim a while back about posting this because I felt that the large number of experienced sellers on this message board would be most likely to yield the best candidates for this test. Jim politely warned me that there would likely be scrutiny involved, and that's OK by me.
I'm looking for two people to help me thoroughly test my image hosting services on a variety of auction sites. It has been very well tested on eBay, but so far almost none of my customers use it for any other selling venue. I want to find out just how compatible MEP is with other sites, and hope to learn of any possible changes that I would need to make in order for it to be "universally compatible". As far as I know, it is, but in order to be sure I need to have some people using it in action. There's really no risk involved so long as the sites you use to place auctions on allow you to preview/modify your item description and images when you first post your auction.
In exchange for simply using my service to host your auction images, sending me some links to those auctions, and briefly reporting your experiences with it, I will give you each 6 months of image hosting and auction gallery hosting for free with the following resources:
- 1000 megabytes (approx. 1 gigabyte) of server storage space
- 3000 megabytes (approx. 3 gigabyte) per month of bandwidth
- Instant copy/paste auction gallery codes for all images
- Free e-cards, online photo albums, and more
This could be very beneficial to the 2 selected testers, as they will save a lot of money on photos in their listings and they could also use it for their eBay listings during the testing (which will last about a month) and for the remaining free months thereafter.
If you are interested, here are the requirements I'm looking for in the 2 candidates:
- You've used several auction sites to sell on other than eBay
- You already have an account and items to sell on at least 2 other services besides eBay
- You have solid basic understanding of using digital images in auctions, and the experience/ability to resize your images to appropriate sizes before uploading
- You're willing to receive a couple of phone calls/ correspondence with me to discuss related issues and the auctions you used MEP for
- You're using Windows XP (This is for the sake of making the testing communications easy between you and I. The service works with Mac users and I will be conducting Mac tests soon as well.)
- You have a good track record as a seller with feedbacks to verify (not asking for perfect, just very good)
There really won't be a whole lot of effort involved on your part other than uploading some images, setting up a few auctions with them, and corresponding with me about them. If you tend to run a lot of auctions there is a substantial savings in image fees for you over the next 6 months that would make this well worth your while.
Your identity will be kept strictly confidential between you and I if you wish.
If you want to be one of testers just send me a private message here on the board with a couple of your auction links. You don't have to give your email address or other personal contact info to "apply" as a tester, this inital process can be handled all through here PM's.
I'll give it a couple of days for response PM's to come in, and then on Friday contact two people to become testers, and then make a post in here to let you all know that 2 have been selected.
For those who might be skeptical/cynical - I completely understand, and you can feel free to verify my integrity with Jim and several other here user references available upon request. I'm simply looking for a way to verify that I can say "Yes, MEP is fully compatible with <insert auction service here>".
Thanks for your consideration and interest! Looking forward to hearing from people,
Dave
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Hello Everyone, the request above was posted with permission...
For those of you who don't know Dave, he's the one with that myeasypics.com banner at the top of the forums in the Promotional Panel..
Dave,
I hope you get the testers you need. Let me know if you need anything else..
-Jim
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Got one tester, there's room for one more. If not, that's OK, she does enough selling through various sites that this will be pretty well covered anyway
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lol Dave,
I would help you gladly if I could find time to do it.
Your site is fantastic... I especially like the little "click here to copy url" button... you don't have to highlight and copy the thing... just click on the button and you got it.
(can you tell I finally got a minute to get my keester over there and look around?)
LOOKS GREAT!