eBay has announced that you’ll soon be getting more pictures in four categories of the US site.
From the Announcement:
Hello everyone…I’d like to share some news regarding fee changes for eBay-hosted pictures that we’re making in the Collectibles, Art, Antiques and Pottery & Glass categories. The first eBay-hosted picture in an item is already free.
Effective February 18, 2009, we are making all additional pictures, Picture Pack and Gallery Plus FREE for listings in all four categories on the US site (www.ebay.com). This includes all formats and all durations.
That’s pretty cool. You can read the rest of the announcement where they go into a little detail on why they are doing it, but it’s a pretty nice step in a good direction for sellers. At least, sellers in those categories. At a guess, this is likely a test and if it goes well, might be rolled out to more categories further down the line.
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February 16th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Thank you eBay! This makes selling some of my warehouse so much easier.
February 26th, 2009 at 10:43 am
This is what we really need, more pictures mean more sales.
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:24 pm
More free pictures is certainly an excellent move. But other recent moves are detrimental to many sellers. I speak of the now default listing appearance under ” best match”of which 2 of the main sort criteria are lowest starting price, and lowest shipping cost, which both discriminate against a plethora of sellers. Lowest starting price ensures that people selling cheap imitation goods (even those who violate ebay policy with deceptive keyword spamming titles) get maximum visibility while sellers offering the real item, because they are more expensive,are way, way lower in searh results, getting barely any visibility at all. Similarly lowest shipping cost discriminates against international sellers because ebay shipping calculation criteria are based on US domestic costs, so international sellers with higher shipping costs that can’t be helped appear very low down in search results, even when they sell items that can’t easily be found domestically. I find this move absolutely disgusting.
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Definitely with more pictures, we can display more descriptive auctions.
More descriptions means more sales.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:03 am
well nice to know that, but i don’t think there’s any difference though, since there are literally hundreds of image hosts who do it all the time.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I notice on many old / antique items of ceramics,potteries,glass etc, that it has an Rd No, i was wondering what this means / stands for exactly and also if this was just used through any certain date periods etc.