posted on January 25, 2002 09:48:21 AM new
I have three Olympic pins with no bids, closing Sunday p.m. I just figured out how to turn off my flash!! and have better pictures to use. Can I add them to the auctions?
If so, please spell out for me. They are edited and ready to put into image hosting. The eBay tutorial wasn't very helpful to me.
posted on January 25, 2002 10:35:29 AM new
Hi roadsmith,
Yes, it is fairly easy to attach an image to an existing auction.
From Auction Manager, click on the "Manage Images" link. Check the box of the image you wish to add under the select column. Click the "Attach Image" button on the bottom of the page, verify your image, and click "Continue". You will then come to a page that contains a box or block of HTML. Copy and paste the entire box of HTML into the description box of the auction revision form, being very careful not to alter any pre-existing HTML that may be in this field.
If you have any trouble getting to the revision form on eBay, let us know and we can help you.
posted on January 25, 2002 11:39:41 AM new
Brian: Thank you so much for your help! I have successfully added the pictures into the auctions.
AND I have a follow-up question, for future use! The pictures show up at the bottom of my description. I'm content with this for now, but how could I first delete the bad picture and have my new picture in its place, near the top of the description?
There is a line in the "manage images" page below the HTML that I was instructed to copy; the line says "If your auction has a picture URL box, place the following line into it if you can."
To accomplish what I'd like to do, which is to put the new picture at the TOP of the auction, should I have also copied the line above into my existing auction? Should it have gone into the small picture URL box? Where would the picture have ended up then?
Should I have done both or just one of these things to accomplish what I wanted to do?
posted on January 25, 2002 11:53:09 AM new
Hi roadsmith,
If you just wanted to change the existing picture, you could have deleted that image from your image hosting and uploaded the new picture using the same filename. This new image would have then appeared in the auction instead of the old one.
The picture URL box is so that eBay recognizes that an images is on the page and will place a camera icon next to the listing. When you use an image when launching through us, you do not need to fill in this area as the camera icon is already present.
But if you do place an image in this form, it will appear at the bottom of the listing.
