How to Save Money Loading Pictures for Ebay Auctions

eBay charges for use of their picture services. Although the first picture is free, you may find you need to use more than one picture. You may also find you want to use larger picture without paying more money for your listing, this is where picture hosting and your computer knowledge come in.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

1. Setup a free account with Picasa or Photobucket. Either picture services allows free uploading of images that can be used to host images that you use in your auctions.

2. Sign on to your accounts and upload your eBay images. You can upload as many images as you want for your auction, all you need to know is the link to use for your auctions to load in your pictures.

3. When you are creating the auction listing, use the HTML view or the image option to link to an external image hosting site to load in your pictures. Using HTML code links you can make your image as large as you would like without worrying about eBay's picture fees.

4. Although you will want to keep the size of your image large for layout reasons, saving your image to a lower file format to ensure your pictures will load quickly for computer browsers.

5. Using these steps you can avoiding using eBay's picture services and fees all together. All you need to do is upload your free gallery picture.

Tips & Warnings

• Remember to take good pictures of your item in great lighting.

Resources

• Photo Bucket
• Picasa