Photos after listing on ebay ?

kalsha

Ms_Chocaholic said:

Yes you can remove pictures from a live listing, unsure whether you can do so though on an auction listing with a bid.

You cannot change the photos once you have received a bid.  You can add new photos but can't change the old photos.

Belenus

Spoonie_Turtle said:

tempus_fugit said:

Belenus said:

Years ago when I was a regular seller I used to use the below picture as a place holder until I could take and add proper pictures.



That is a jpg picture and not text.

If I were ever browsing eBay for something and I came across a listing like that I would go straight past it and not even consider it. It frankly looks very bad and I would have thought that it would be very dangerous indeed to bid on something with no image(s), and what's the point of the item being up if it's not really available to be bid for?

I imagine the goal of that would be to then replace it ASAP after initially listing - but I don't think you can actually remove photos posted at the time of listing (though I could be wrong) and if this stayed as the main picture, I too would just scroll straight past.

That is exactly what it was. That placeholder picture would be up for a short while and would quickly be replaced by proper pictures. I used it if I wanted to list multiple items to take advantage of a promotion but didn't have the time to photograph everything.

In those days pictures could be removed and replaced.

Maybe things have changed. I haven't used that placeholder picture for about 15 years.

balabooberlies

Just a little update.

Have been terrified of listing on ebay since day dot.  I am always going to....but never do.

Well, I finally have !  With photos...

So thank you all.

bala