posted on July 4, 2005 11:12:00 PM new
do we recieve free image hosting for if we have the "sales manager merchandising edition"? If we have a "sales manager" plan....we dont need to purchase an "image hosting plan" also...do we? That could be too expensive overhead for what I anticipate making, money-wise.
You have to sign up for Image Hosting as it is now a separate service, that is subscription based. The plans are set up in such a way that you will be credited back image hosting fees provided your Sales Manager fees are higher. If you are using Sales Manager to list, and you're on a monthly subscription fee based plan, Image Hosting will continue to be free as long as the following applies:
1. You are using Sales Manager to create and launch your listings.
2. The amount you are paying for the use of Sales Manager is greater than or equal to the amount you would have paid for stand-alone Image Hosting.
Note that if your Image Hosting charges end up being more than your Sales Manager charges (a rare circumstance) you ONLY pay the difference, not the entire cost of the Image Hosting on top of the Sales Manager fees. Sales Manager fees work to offset Image Hosting fees in all cases.
For example, if you were on the Premium Flat rate plan ($12.95 per month), but you had so many images that you would be in the $19.95 / 135MB Image Hosting plan range, you would only pay $12.95 (Sales Manager) + $7.00 (difference between Sales Manager and Image Hosting plan), or $19.95 total. Incremental listing fees for Sales Manager plans also add up to offset Image Fees as well, so if you were to list 35 auctions on the same plan in the same billing cycle as above, your Image Hosting fees would be totally offset by the Sales Manager fees (35 x .20 per listing = $7.00)
Most of our customers will not end up being charged additionally for image hosting, assuming that the images being stored are reasonably sized and are actually being used in listings consistently.
