I did not spend any time reviewing any previous posts to see if this topic has been proposed before but if it has, my appologies.

Is it possible that Auctiva can upload a choosen photo to to the auction on the Ebay site while it is posting the auction? They (ebay) gives you one photo upload for free and that one photo is pretty reliable that it will always show up. Usually the gallery photo would be my choice for that photo.

If this can happen, then if Auctiva's images goes down, there is still one photo hosted on the ebay site that can still be viewed without any extra effort on the listing person.

Just a thought....
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"Tiques_N_Ties"

I think this is an excellent suggestion if it's possible. I've gone through and done it manually and man is that a pain!

I agree, that would be nice. I wonder, though, if one of the stipulations for third party services is that they host all the photos themselves? I have no idea, but there may be some reason it's not already set up like that.

I've been with several third party services and not one of them did as was suggested.

Sure it would be great..but I'm sure there's some reason why ALL of the services that I've used in the past didn't.

I've found that there's not a single solitary third party service that hasn't had down times from time to time.

Even eBay picture service wasn't working correctly in the past weeks. My gallery pics which are housed (as are everyone's gallery pics) weren't viewable and yet my Auctiva pics were showing up.

Remember Rick?

Just my thoughts on your suggestion..not meaning to bash. I wanted to let you know that I'd been with several and none of them did it either and you can't always rely on ebay's pic hosting.

There's always photo-bucket, too. A certain MB can be housed there for free. Also a good percentage of ISP's offer storage, too.

Take care, Donna

I think this used to work and ebay changed it!

I know on SD awhile back you could use the "picture preview" at the top of the listing and that was hosted on ebay.

I used this option for the very reason so if images were down at least that pic would be there. Then ebay changed it!

I also thought at one time the image outside of the template at the bottom of the listing was hosted on ebay as well.

Hi Donna,

You know before I woke up and came over to Free Autiva, I was with The Sellers Source" and for $8.00 a month they gave you 200MB of Image hosting and free Templates. It is a good site for all types of info, like seller sourcing, wholesale stuff. But like I said, you just cant beat Auctiva Free!!!

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I also thought at one time the image outside of the template at the bottom of the listing was hosted on ebay as well.

Yeah, isn't it? Otherwise, why would it even need to show up? Listing through Auctiva means not using eBay's hosting so why does that picture show up down there? Maybe it's merely a reflection of whatever image URL is in the header slot (regardless of domain)? Yeah, maybe that's it.