Saturday, October 10, 2009

eBay Sellers: Find out How Photo Sharing Sites Will Save You Money

By Kimberly Aita

Are you selling stuff online? Possibly you like to sell on ebay? If you do, then you doubtless already understand that having pictures on your ebay listings is a significant piece of selling your items online.

Generally ebay buyers won't even think about buying something if they can't see a good photo of the item. More often than not they would prefer to see several pictures of an item but this can be expensive on ebay, especially if you sell a lot of items.

I am going to show you how you can give your customers more pictures, which is what they want, and you won't have to break the bank to do so.

If having more photos in your ebay listings is something you want to be able to do, then I advise you to consider websites that are called photo sharing sites, if this isn't something that you have already done. A photo sharing website will allow you to put digital photos or videos online. A lot of ebay sellers are beginning to see the advantage of using photo sharing sites as a way to help keep the cost of having multiple pictures of their items on ebay to a minimum.

If this is something that you are interested in looking into, you will have to find a good photo sharing website. You can search for these online by just typing the search term into google or whatever search engine you may be using.

You will most likely see PhotoBucket in your results page and this is a free to use, well established photo sharing site. You may possibly want to consider some of the other photo sharing sites but I would suggest that you take a close look at PhotoBucket, since it is a free service and it is easy to use.

Just fill out the required information to create your account at which ever site you want to use. You will more than likely be required to create a nickname or login id and password but once you have applied and created your account, you should be able to log in and start using the site to help you begin to save some money on your auction listings.

While these sites may all have different instructions on how to use them, among the first things you will need to do is to have photos of your ebay items uploaded to your computer. Then simply follow the instructions you have been given to add the photos to your account on the photo sharing site. This is usually a fairly easy step and once you have done it once or twice it will be even easier each time you have to use the service.

By taking the time to appreciate how to use the photo sharing sites, you can begin to see some savings as far as your fees to ebay go. It is absolutely worth the little bit of time it takes to get it right the first time and in the long run you will save money if you have multiple listings on ebay.

Subsequent to uploading your photos, you ought to be able to see what is called a thumbnail of each picture. These are just smaller versions of your pictures. You can choose which pictures you want to use in your ebay listings and then you will be able to generate what is known as an html code. Don't worry if this sounds complicated, you will be shown how to do this step by step on the site.

You should then be taken to a page that has the html code and if you have a good photo sharing site they will give you clear details on how to use the links for your ebay listings. More than likely you will just have to copy and paste the code into your ebay auction description page and you should then be able to see the photos in your listing.

If you are an ebay seller, odds are that you are trying to make as much profit as possible and while you don't have to use a photo sharing site, it can be helpful when it comes down to your bottom line.

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