quote:Originally posted by ellenm:
Thanks for your reply (even though it's not what I want to hear). Maybe I'm not typical, but my photos are always under 70 kb. I don't need click to enlarge.
When I browse auctions to buy, I never click to enlarge. It's another step and I'm usually in a hurry. So I miss out on what the item looks like in a good size photo. I'm sure I'm not the only one who won't click to enlarge.
I like auctiva because I don't have to use HTML and devise my own templates. I know I can create a template, but that's not why I use Auctiva.
As for all other companies doing it this way, when I used Spare Dollar a year ago, they had some templates without click to enlarge. I haven't looked lately.
Auctiva seems to design their system for the lowest common denominator user. The photos get renamed to an inscrutable string of numbers because Auctiva doesn't trust users to rename their pics as they come off their camera. And the templates limit my picture size. Maybe you should consider that some of your users are not dumbbells. Many of us give our photos unique names and many of us keep our jpg size small.
To hear the other side of the coin.
Number one: I'm not a lowest common denominator in any situation, at any time or any place. There are many, many intelligent persons who use this service and in no way would I ever consider slighting them by insinuating that they are less than savvy in how they run their auctions and/or websites.
Number two: I like that my images have numbers and not names. My images when I was with Sparedollar (which is now closed and I left long before it closed) used to come up in image searches because they were named. Now they don't. That way nobody nabs my pics and tries to use them or alter them.
Number three: The majority of templates that had the click to enlarge were designed by members for the members. You could either have them add the tags not to click or they designed them both way. I do know several designers that were with Sparedollar and are now members here and at Inkfrog. Perhaps they could design you your own template to use. It's not hard to use it...You just go to Custom Template and copy and paste the code. You're done and it's there as a clickable template when your designing your auctions.
Number four: Our shopping styles are totally different. I do not make any hasty purchases on eBay. When I shop..I make time for looking around. If an item does not have the click to enlarge..I don't take the time with it. I move along as I want to see the finer details of the item that I'm handing my hard earned money over to the seller. If they don't have click to enlarge..then I move on. Likewise if a photo is too big for the auction, it's diverting to the buyers.
Plus if you have large photo's, there's still a good percentage of America using dial up and I don't want an auction that takes 180 seconds to upload or longer for my buyers. (using a website analysis tool will tell you the upload time for each speed dialup, dsl, cable, t1) If I were on dialup and it took a long time to load in due to pic size. I'd move along to the next one. Optimizing your pic size is essential to good selling.
Two diverse styles of Auctiva customers and shoppers.
Ones not any more right than the other. Just two sides of a view of auction selling/buying.
Peace,
Donna