kateartist
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posted on January 14, 2001 10:19:58 AM
There's a new picture carrier being used now, called IPix that shows such dinky pictures that I haven't yet felt confortable bidding on any auction using them. I'm so disgusted because so many people now seem to be using them and the pictures are just worthless.
Why can't sellers realize how much more they get when people can see what they have for up for auction.
........growl growl growl growl.....
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avaloncourt
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posted on January 14, 2001 10:24:07 AM
While I don't use Ipix, I'm just checking to make sure you know that if you click on one of the tiny pictures, Ipix moves it to the big picture window. It then takes the one that was in the big window and puts in in one of the little windows.
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abacaxi
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posted on January 14, 2001 10:32:14 AM
avaloncourt -
Even the "big" picture is overcompressed and doesn't show enough detail.
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kateartist
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posted on January 14, 2001 10:45:50 AM
Sorry if I wasn't clear.
The big pictures are useless. All of them are fuzzy and show the item far too small.
Abacaxi - is the company compressing them for the user? What a way to destroy your auctions!
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avaloncourt
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posted on January 14, 2001 10:49:39 AM
ok, got you on the overcompression. I agree that it's pretty bad for any serious detail.
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kerryann
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posted on January 14, 2001 02:33:20 PM
Whiel browsing, I have seen many auctions that utilize IPIX and in just about every case, clicking on the small picture results in that tiny picture appearing in the large box in it's still-tiny form.
I have no clue if the seller has any control over the size of the pictures, however, my experience as a potential bidder has been horrible.
Not Kerryann on eBay
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smw
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posted on January 14, 2001 02:57:16 PM
IPix is the image hosting service provided by eBay. Sellers can upload 2 pictures for free.
But eBay is now offering the option of "Supersize" images by IPix for "only a $1.00".
The images are most likly compressed to save bandwidth, or to get people to pay "only a $1.00" to Supersize so bidders can actually see the images.
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abacaxi
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posted on January 14, 2001 03:36:47 PM
"IPix is the image hosting service provided by eBay."
No wonder it's slow and screwed up.
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kateartist
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posted on January 14, 2001 03:54:07 PM
Hmmm, no wonder so many are suddenly using it. The supersize is f*ed up. In Explorer it's overwriting the memory and I get gibberish in the window rather than a 'supersize'. After a bit, I have to shut my system down and cold start it as the corruption grows worse and worse.
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abacaxi
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posted on January 14, 2001 04:19:26 PM
It might be relying on "ActiveX controls" and if you don't have them or have them disabled, things might act a little screwy.
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brighid868
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posted on January 14, 2001 04:20:18 PM
You know, I was WONDERING whose crappy hosting site "Ipix" came from. Bad quality pictures and ugly setup. Now I know---it's Ebay! LOL! Those pictures are awful, and half the time they don't load for me which is even worse.
What's scary is that probably half the people using it don't even know they don't have to use it. They probably think Ebay's service is the only one available and that anything else won't match. Kind of like those poor brainwashed customers I used to have in retail that thought if they used Clinique foundation, they had to use Clinique powder or their face would fall off. Ha!
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smw
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posted on January 14, 2001 05:38:50 PM
When eBay rolled out IPix they made a big deal out of it and about how it is free. (Which we all know is a come on to get people used to using it and then offer an "extra" to make it work right for a fee).
Also when eBay first rolled out IPix there was the mystery of IPix images loading and other images, (not on IPix) loading verrrrry slowly. It lasted about a week and stopped just as mysteriously when sellers complained.
The image quality has never been good and it seemed that eBay wasn't concerned about it. But the other shoe dropped when they rolled out "Super Size" and the fee.
So if you use IPix they only way to get half decent images on your auction is to pay $1.00 per auction, and hope that the bidder has Active X, and it is enabled.
I feel sorry for new sellers who rely on eBay for information and don't have the experience to know that most ISP's offer free space. If they go for the Super Size at a $1.00 an auction it can add up fast.
Ebay used to have a tutorial and information about imaging services, including how most IPS's give you free space, and how to upload images to your own web space to use on eBay. But with eBay offering IPix the information, if it is still around,is probably buried somewhere deep in one of the Help pages.
eBay ..... always there to "help" the community.
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kateartist
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posted on January 15, 2001 11:35:12 AM
I emailed 2 different sellers to let them know that I was interested in their auction, but the IPix pictures are all so poor, I couldn't see the item well enough to bid. One seller was pretty sophisticated and replied that he was thinking of going to auctionwatch, the other poor lady apologized all over the place, but said she couldn't use anything else because this was through Ebay and she couldn't read HTML.
sigh
Just too much to explain, so I didn't try.
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