ebay thread - auto-resizing images?

LanceNewmanOCC · July 8, 2014 8:53AM

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i thought i was just missing something but it seems that my images are being auto-resized down to 500 on the longest side.

anyone else experiencing this?

i'm doing direct upload via ebay, not a third party uploader.

it seems i may have been unfairly harsh on some sellers as it appeared that they were specifically maxing their images to 500 on the longest side, which seemed very weird but hey its ebay. now that it is happening to me, i wonder if they are doing this to save server space/bandwidth?

anyone is more than welcome to direct me to the ebay thread to discuss such things instead of here. i just get tired of looking.
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LanceNewmanOCC · July 9, 2014 4:26AM

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maybe it isn't resizing the images but it is the changes in their displayed pages. i think it happens because of different versions of pages that we get from time to time. i personally have no idea why they do it since they don't seem to stick with 1 format but instead let it bounce around seemingly randomly. hmm
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LindeDad · July 9, 2014 4:56AM

Mouse over seems to change sizing.

lkeigwin · July 9, 2014 5:10AM

Why not link images from a photo-sharing site instead of uploading them to ebay? Then you control them and could even add small messages by editing the photos when ebay won't allow any changes to the auctions.
Lance.

mercurydimeguy · July 9, 2014 5:20AM

I just listed a couple coins and nothing was different.

LanceNewmanOCC · July 9, 2014 5:38AM

<< <i>Why not link images from a photo-sharing site instead of uploading them to ebay? Then you control them and could even add small messages by editing the photos when ebay won't allow any changes to the auctions.
Lance. >>

i used to host my own but i like uploading large images and they are too big imo for the description area and i don't want to mess with an image viewer with a magnifier like the ebay hosting has.

also, i could put an url to a hosted image but after months/years go by i get tired or keeping the images organized/deleted from my hosting.

after thousands of hour of experience, i prefer to just upload images for them to host. although, your point is made that i am then subject to their software variances. if it were to get annoying enough, i will go back to hosting my own.

some days it seem that the magnifier works 95% of the time and other time you have to click the images to enlarge.

just a minor inquiry on my part.
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19Lyds · July 9, 2014 5:42AM

Funny you should mention this since eBay does resize the image if its too large.

Another thing that occurs is when you mouse over the image, you get an enlargement but if you click on the image, it change so that the entire photo displays which in some cases is actually smaller than mousing over the image.

Mouseover:

Click:

LanceNewmanOCC · August 25, 2015 5:12AM

<< <i>Funny you should mention this since eBay does resize the image if its too large.

Another thing that occurs is when you mouse over the image, you get an enlargement but if you click on the image, it change so that the entire photo displays which in some cases is actually smaller than mousing over the image.

Mouseover:
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ya, the mouseover thing has worked well imo. one of the few changes i like over the years.
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oih82w8 · August 25, 2015 5:37AM

Something that drives me nuts is when ebayers don't use the mouse over magnification...it does not cost extra...does it?

LanceNewmanOCC · August 25, 2015 5:58AM

<< <i>Something that drives me nuts is when ebayers don't use the mouse over magnification...it does not cost extra...does it? >>

it is default as i see it.

what stops it is large enough images (dimensions not kb/mb) being uploaded that don't "trigger" this option/effect.

also, slow connection, low ram etc can delay/prohibit it from working.

may be browser version variance as well.
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