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Picture Hosting Or How to Save Thousands of Dollars

Published Monday, August 4, 2008 by bloggerblognet83460 | E-mail this post

If you are not new to eBay, you'll know that eBay asks to pay for publishing pictures in your listings except for the first one.

For example, it can cast you up to 2$ per listing if you want to publish 10 pictures. If you are still using eBay picture service and pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars per month in picture fees, you should seriously reconsider your strategy.

eBay doesn't promote this. Obviously, they want people to use this and pay for picture service, but they do allow to use third party hosted pictures.

How does this work? Very simple:

1)Upload pictures to 3d party server

2)Enter the link to that picture in your listing description.

That's it, no more eBay picture fees.You can insert as many pictures as you want for 100% Free.

Where and how do you upload pictures?

There are two choices to go with:
*Use a Free service such as imagehack.us or photobucket.com
With these sites, you can upload unlimited amount of pictures and use them directly to eBay listings.If you sell few things here and there for time to time, go for this option.

But if you are serious seller with loads of listings and strong business background, you should know this: Get what you pay for! In this situation you don't pay anything, so you shouldn't expect anything in return. These websites are for "everyday" people and other photo lovers, who like to share pictures over the net. Its not for businesses.By using these services, you are risking that one day your account will disappear with all of your pictures leaving all of your listings empty, and no one will help you, because you used consumer tools for business purposes.

Another risk - I have seen this many times on eBay. If your listing gets a loads of traffic, your pictures will disappear as these services block images taking too much bandwidth. With that said, these are only risks and you can always work them out for the best. But there is another side for these things as well.

By using free picture hosting services, you are losing security and also flexibility. You have no control over how those pictures are stored, deleted or moved on servers(ll cover exactly what that means later on).

*Use your own webspace
This is the option that most of the powersellers and simply "smart" sellers use. It cost just a few bucks per month, but you get full control and security of pictures you have used for your listings.

Here are just a few things you can achieve by using your own hosting space:

*You get Security and Flexibility including fully secured daily backups.

*Change pictures and layout in your listing without changing listing itself

*Run special promotions

*Test headlines

*Create seasoned greetings

*Change shipping information

*And much more!

As you can see possibilities are endless!

If you have more then 50 active listings, it could be a big hustle to make small changes.By using this system you can make changes to 50 or 1000 listings all at one time, all by uploading new image.

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