Ebay Photos - Photobucket v Auctiva?

reese

I've been selling few bits on ebay but have been reading tips on here on how to maximise my selling. One seems to be to add extra photos and that this can be done cheaper using Photobucket or Auctiva. Just after feedback as to which is the most popular/easiest to use etc.
Thanks a lot.
R

soolin

The easiest way is to use turbo lister and add extra photos via photobucket.

Auctiva is a stand alone service and has the advantage of pretty templates and a free scheduling service. Having used both I like the convenience of the free scheduling on Auctiva, but for ease of use I would dump Auctiva tomorrow. With turbo lister I coul dhave an auction up and running in less than a minute, with Auctiva it can take anything up to 30 minutes per auction, and that doesn't take into account the times it is to slow and can't actually be used at all, the error messages, the failure to accept photos.

reese

Thank you for your reply. Can you tell me if it's fairly striaght forward to add the photo's from photobucket?
Thank you.
R

rosekitten

I use photobucket as you can use it
free,I found when I was on dial up I
could never get the page to open
properly when people had auctiva on their
listings,Its fine now I am on broadband
but if you are a seller wanting to maximise
people checking what you are selling its
not really the best option as a lot on
dial up get fed up and move on to other
sellers.I know I used to do it myself

I always keep in mind the potential
bidders who do not have broadband
and make good use of the generate
html code.Just one regular sized pic
and as many as I want of these little
ones below,that way no matter how
slow your connection everyone can
open the page and have a good look.



click on pics to enlarge










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reese

Thanks for your reply rosekitten but not sure what you mean by html code. Hopefully this will be explained when I sign up to photobucket and attempt to load photos.
Thanks again to all that have replied.
R

soolin

Just as an aside Auctiva is again not working this morning and I am now 'that close' to dumping it as I have just wasted an hour without managing to list anything...grrr

DonnaP

Hi Soolin

I have been tearing my hair out all day with it. My mum has kindly had my 4 year twin DD's so I can get some stuff listed.

I took loads of photos for 9 'lots', downloaded them, uploaded to auctiva and ...... listed 2! I can't get onto the site, then it freezes, etc. The worse its ever been, IMHO. The language has been blue here (good job my DD's were out).

My mum asked 'did you get it all done?' when she brought them back. I am sure she must think I have been lounging about all day.

Seriously thinking about not using it, but the free scheduling and the templates draw me back each time.

Donna