posted on March 30, 2001 01:36:47 PM new
Can I replace existing images with new ones after my auction has received bids? I would rather not add any more if it means the auction will take longer to load but I think I can get better images than what I have already.
posted on March 30, 2001 01:40:52 PM new
Despite your good intention, you may confuse your bidders if you swap photographs mid auction. I recommend that you just add the best of your new photograps to the listing. Don't worry so much about loading time, as you already have bids and these buyers will surely wait for the auction to load.
posted on March 30, 2001 01:54:37 PM new
Yes, you can. I have had to change photos when I saw one was fuzzy or I had a better angle on the item and wanted to swap out. Go to "revise" and in the large box with Item Description wording and html code, locate the URL for your photo name that you used, and change the URL address to the correct photo name you should have already uploaded. Click submit changes and you've got it! Di
On a scale of 1 to 10...we'd all weigh a lot less!
posted on March 30, 2001 02:02:46 PM new
You could also just name the new photos with the exact same names as the ones currently being used. Delete those first images from where ever you have them hosted, and upload the new ones. The names must be just the same so the url is still correct.
posted on March 30, 2001 03:03:30 PM new
You wouldn't be able to revise an auction once it has bids. I have changed my pics the way that Meya describes but never during an auction but it could be done.
What is stopping a seller from putting up an auction with a title like "Beautiful clear glass bowl". In the auction they show pictures of a 10" gorgeous antique glass bowl. They give the measurements and say it is pretty or whatever. The auction runs for days and the bids go higher. Then before the auction closes they delete the pics and replace them with a 10" run of the mill ordinary garden variety bowl.
The high bidder gets a bowl but not the original one they thought they were bidding on if they didn't check before the auction ended. It would be pretty evil but couldn't it be done?
posted on March 31, 2001 10:10:02 AM new
Shaani, that's a very good point. Pobably why eBay doesn't allow you to change pics after receiving bids. In my case however, the pics aren't clear enough for some of the bidders to see exactly what they're bidding on. (A couple have written me, asking for pictures with better resolution.) So I suppose I wouldn't get too much flack just as long as the pictures I change are an improvement. I would also rather have a bid retraction during the auction, instead of the winning bidder complaining because the item wasn't what they thought.
posted on March 31, 2001 11:55:26 AM new
shanni: The reason you wouldn't swap pictures is because bidders very often download pictures to manipulate them and get better detail, thus giving them a record of the original image. You might get caught swapping images and give the impression you were dishonest. Also, after the auction the seller could remove the image from the auction so the buyer couldn't compare what he bought with the original picture thus achieving the same goal of confusing the buyer as to what he originally had bid on. I have swapped pictures in the middle of an auction in order to put up a better image so I know it can be done.
When you revise an auction the "search text" function ceases to work. I wonder what eBay would think of inserting text in an existing photo. This would allow you to give more information without technically revising the auction. Has anyone done this?
doormat: If an auction is revised textually (credit to G W Bush for that word)or pictorially between bids, then the two bidders have bid on the same object with two different sets of information.
posted on March 31, 2001 12:03:00 PM new
So, you could add text to the new photo, stating that it is the same exact widget, but you took a better picture. Then you email all bidders and you alert them to the change.
Switch the pictures on your picture host, which wouldn't affect the search on eBay, since you didn't use their revise feature (not that you could anyway since there are bids).
posted on March 31, 2001 12:27:01 PM new
Just so none of you think I would attempt this please let me make it clear that I would never do it.
The reason I bring this up is that when I had been on ebay for about 6 months I clicked onto an auction and there was a beautiful marigold carnival glass bowl. I looked up the pattern in my book and it was made in about an 8" size and I think it was priced at about $95. I bookmarked the auction and when I checked again the pic was gone. All the seller had for a description was something like "orange glass bowl".
It was a new seller so I thought maybe she didn't realize her pic was no longer showing. No one bid on the auction and I scooped it for $15. I got a pukey little peach colored bowl about 4" across and worth maybe $2.00 and it was not the one I had originally seen.
Ya, I was dumb and I took a chance thinking I would get a bargain and that I was bidding on what I had seen in the pic but since I couldn't prove I wasn't imagining things I just shrugged it off.
The same "newbie" then put up a pretty green vase for $15.00 and she got bids. Next thing her pic was gone so I wonder if the bidders asked for a pic or if they got a cheaper piece of glass also. See, the reason I didn't e-mail her before the auction ended and question her about her missing picture was because I was afraid she would put it back up and I would no longer get a bargain when others saw it.
Lesson learned for me. I realize mine was just a case of the pic being deleted but pics can also be switched. I doubt it would happen too often though because of the chance of being caught.
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