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Re: Trouble loading Ebay
Maybe related, maybe not. I was having internet related problems with my mail hosting company this morning. Their entry vanished from DNS records, so they appeared to be non-existant. There have also been some attacks against DNS servers this week. Perhaps this is what you are seeing. My problems with my mail host are gone now, but their customer support line did verify that they were getting a high level of calls similar to my complaint. My connections to eBay have been working fine today.
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Re: asking for password ........
Snap, same problem here. I receive a log-in prompt each time I try to open an Ebay (or Auctivia) page containing ANY of my image that Auctivia host for me. Even tried filling in the prompt with my user name and password but it will not accept either. The problem occurs in both Internet Explorer and Firefox, so no help there!! I've just checked item 150082357143 for the OP and I can see it and my Hubby has logged on to his computer and can see all my images too, so it appears that each...
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Re: I dont get it BYE BYE!!
Your account doesn't have any profiles or a master profile. You should create those first. Once you've done that it will save you from entering repetitive info over and over. You should upload all your images for the listings you're creating that day in advance. That should save some time as well so that you'll only need to select them once you are creating your items description. Here are some tutorials and taped classes that should help: http://www.auctiva.com/help/tutorials.aspx You...
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Re: My own hosted images aren't appearing in Preview
Maybe your image host is down. Try using our image hosting.
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Re: Name Server
To add to my post, I talked to godaddy and they are wondering why did I remove (delete) the A HOST entry. According to Auctiva instruction: So they think the A HOST should be placed back and should use Name Server instead of CNAME and asked me to contact Auciva for their help.
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Re: Name Server
Hi nadiastore, To redirect your domain to your Auctiva store, you must point your domain to "storefilter.auctiva.com" using a CNAME. If you are unable to complete this task using the instructions on our domain set-up wizard, please contact GoDaddy's customer support department and tell them: "I would like the host records for www.yourdomaingoeshere.com to point to storefilter.auctiva.com using a CNAME." Just remember to replace "www.youdomaingoeshere.com" in the above statement with the...
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Re: Image Issues
What is the maximum number of images auctiva will host for free? When I try to upload images I get limit of 100 reached when I try to upload more images. Thanks.
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Re: Image Issues
What is the maximum number of images auctiva will host for free? When I try to upload images I get limit of 100 reached when I try to upload more images. Thanks.
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Re: Image hosting / template hosting
men... not a single response... i wonder if i went wrong with auctiva or if i should host my page somewhere else that i have control of my domain name to upload what ever i want. something to think about.
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Re: Image hosting / template hosting
Hi mensattire, 1) The custom domain you have purchased through Auctiva is managed by Auctiva and points to your Auctiva store, which displays all of your active eBay listings at any given time. The only way you can customize your Auctiva store are by using the customization options listed under the "Store" tab within your Auctiva account so, unfortunately, it is not possible to edit your store using HTML. 2) If you would like to use the Auctiva store domain you purchased to host your...
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Re: Where Is My Slideshow?
AS ALWAYS ONCE AGAIN AUCTIVA'S LAME SERVICE IS HAVING A MAJOR HICCUP. NO IMAGES MEANS LOSS OF INCOME. THATS WHY I NO LONGER USE AUCTIVA AS MY IMAGE HOST PROVIDER AND JUST PAY THE EBAY IMAGE FEES NOW FOR DEPENDABILITY. THIS WAY I STILL USE THE STORE WINDOW AND IF IT DOES NOT WORK WELL NO SKIN OFF MY KNUCKLES.
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Re: Clipart in descriptions
You will have to host them here on Auctiva or another photo host and then insert them using the HTML code for the image. For example - I use photobucket for my hosting - so the code that I would use would be... (img src=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v51.angelsblue/imagename.jpg) You would have to replace the () with <>. After the img src= you would add in the image URL for your photo where ever it is hosted.
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Re: What benefit is the Auctiva Store?
I'll add my two cents - I'm also a newbie to Auctiva and was confused about whether one had to have an eBay store in order to use an Auctiva store. The answer I received from Auctiva's customer service was no - you need to use eBay to list your auctions but you do not need to have an official eBay store. So it's true that Auctiva is not a stand alone storefront because it needs to interact with your eBay account and listings but you don't have to pay for an eBay store. Visitors thru eBay...
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Re: 400X300 How to avoid distortion
Hi thanks so much for your time. My camera automatically saves my images in jpg format so at least that shouldn't be an issue. Most of my photos have been fine with the compression but I have a handful of items where it has been really frustrating to try and get a decent image to show on the listing. Guess it sounds like I'll just have to live with it though, or perhaps use a different image host for those specific items? Thanks again for your time and for trying to help me out
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Re: 400X300 How to avoid distortion
Hi, some items can be difficult regardless of the host, fringing effects when taking pictures of stripey garments, certain colours, I always found bright red to be worst. Just always upload at the maximum resolution you want the item to be seen at, no larger, wastes time and means that your jpg images are processed twice which certainly increases the likelyhood of colour distortion. Consider that eBay will squeeze the image down to 400x300 for the standard listing picture and more so for the...
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Re: I feel so lost... yikes
Hi, some guidelines for you. An image in your listing will only get larger if you have uploaded it at a size greater than 400x300 pixels. (The standard eBay size). Try loading them at twice the default size and you should see the difference clearly. When your listing is posted via Auctiva with supersize option selected it wil have text under it referring to supersize. The 'save/download' window you saw is a Microsoft Windows menu not an Auctiva 'Window'. You do not need to know about HTML...
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Re: Using PhotoBucket
Hi fabulous - You are correct, if you want to externally host your image, that is definitely the way to do it. However, since Kittieciao does not wish to host from PhotoBucket, I'm afraid she is going to have to copy the image(s) to her PC first, then upload to Auctiva as Suthrnjewl suggests. Unfortunately, this is the only way to get the pics stored on Auctiva's server and hosted by Auctiva.
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Re: Please Help,some of my listings have not shown up!
WELCOME to Auctiva By the time you read this They have probably shown up. But for future reference as told to me and from what you can read on the community forum pages. Auctiva is a third party host to E-bay which means anything coming in from a place other than Ebay's own listings, has to be run thru a Fraud Protection Sweep. This feature although is to protect accounts from being entered by fraudulent scammers, makes our uploading of the listings slower. If I relist thru E-bay it will...
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Re: Practiceboard Links- Please Help with My Custom Template
Hi! Sorry Kolstrom I am not familiar with its shopping cart addition... the last version of Fusion I used frequently was version 8. I then went to Frontpage 2002 due to some tools that worked well between FP 2002 and Visual Studio (Microsofts software engineering platform). Then a few years back now I did some work for a firm in Ohio who bought the entire Dreamweaver suite and had just no clue about well... it and then some... they wanted an Intranet. In any event, we made a deal so I did...
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Re: Purchased custom templates from someone else.
Well same thing is happening to me..this is a nice cutomized template I bought but I tried to put it in the 'curtomized' template area but description and images are still outside the template not within. I can do it in wordpad with an external image host..but I like auctiva and wantd to use it here. Can anyone out there help us?? Please....
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Re: My Own Domain
Go into your hosting and forward the URL to your auctiva store url. If you have any problems, you're domain host should easily be able to help you. Best of luck, Donna
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Re: Domain URL Forward ??
Does anyone know the answer? If it's on here, would you please point me in the right direction? I'm still not finding it. On the first page, it tells you they set it up for you but I don't see whether we can do it ourselves on our own host. Have any of you done this? Thanks
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Re: listing
Hi. I checked all your listings and they look fine. The current one is using eBay to host your pics, which I don't understand why. Your completed auctions all look great. I'd suggest putting the scrolling gallery at the bottom, but that's just my opinion and preference. I also would recommend not ending your listings early except for extenuating circumstances. This can give you a bad reputation as a seller with too many. Again, JMHO. Anyway, they look just fine from here. Maybe I'm not...
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Re: Showcase not showing in my auctions
I have been reading the posts,on this board,for the last week or so,and I have to say:" I COUD NOT BELIEVE,THE THINGS POSTED BY AUCTIVA".The comments,and words,used,were appauling!This is supposed to be a Professional Auction Host Company,to "Help",people "save money",on their auctions listed,and provide Courteous customer support,and use "Professionalism",in doing so.I was always taught,that "The customer is always right",even when they were not,and to treat them with the upmost respect;To...
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Re: Showcase not showing in my auctions
Tom;Feedbacks are "Opinions",not how a customer is treated.YOU don't know anything about them,and what does my feedbacks have to do,with the way,you post things on this auction board? There are "2-Sides" to very story,in feedbacks!When a buyer says something,in a feedback about me,afer I have tried to do ALL I could to "pacify" them,give them a refund,and more;they refuse anything you try to do,to make them a "Happy Customer",and they still leave "false statements",then I have a RIGHT to...
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Re: template help
So auctiva will not host any GIF's? Boy I'm gunna have alot of template images to change
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Re: New to Auctiva...Question about Listings
swimordie, I did not even look at your listing to be honest. Turbolister is no where near the program that Auctiva is. Turbolister is just what is says a listing program. It does not host your images, you can't schedule listings without paying the extra ebay fees, it doesn't give you your own store or showcase to present your lisitngs..the only thing it is good for is to be an editor for you to upload to ebay. And pray that they do not have another update that fries everyones info. I used TL...
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Re: Using AUDIO on eBay Auctions
Even though the auto-start audio has been working well for me, I'm going to be reverting to click-to-play recordings (because that is what I would prefer) on all of my auctions. I don't like the animated characters either... pretty spooky. The main reason that I don't just record my voice and use HTML is because it slows loading time quite a bit (especially for dial-up connections). The service I use has Flash, so I don't have to worry about that. Also, the recordings take up a lot of...
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Re: Custom Template and Image Tags
Not really: just make an ACT with the HTML <img> </img> tags with a complete URL pointing to your image host. Put those <img> tags wherever you want an image to appear and save your ACT. Then when you're ready to create a new auction just load your ACT and edit the end of the URL (the actual image name). Thanks for your help, David. It's much appreciated! Just one more question: If I host my own pics how can I get one to be designated as the eBay header image?
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Re: Servers Moving Friday night 9pm
This isn't a reply but a question. The last two items I sent to e bay through auctiva haven't went completely through. E-bay has sent me emails stating that they want to thank me for choosing their gallery service, but that "The host in your url could not be found". I checked the links and they are correct all other pics are working. Any clue as to what may be going on. Sine you are doing all this work and moving thought it may have something to do with that so I didn't want to bother...
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Re: NEW TOPIC
My thoughts on this are that everyone needs a place to vent. Get rid of some ranting before the other half gets around us. Then we can be civil. <smile> No one else can understand the frustrations of selling online cept another seller. Right? Vent away! Peace, Donna
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Re: Servers Moving Friday night 9pm
Elfin, you are allowed to think but just realize that Jeff and crew have been thinking about this for weeks. I used to be in IT and a move of this size is not something for any company to be looking forward to. The amount of work involved is atrocious. And the possibilities of problems is endless. Like Jeff said, just moving a server that has been running non-stop for 12 months is asking for trouble, not to mention the parts that can get shaken loose in transport and the trouble-shooting...
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Re: Get It Together and Quit The Insurance Scam!!
If hes got money like that, he's sure not sharing with his wife. So why is she using FREE Auctiva? If it has all of the problems he states, why dont he pay for some other pathetic auction hosting service? I'm not saying Auctiva is pathetic. I like Auctiva. It's free, easy to use, and saves me money on multiple pictures and listing designer. Auctiva is not the best, but it's the best free auction host, right?
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Re: Am I going Crazy? Pix Appear and Disappear?
I may be wrong but I think each user is attached to a specific server so I don't think moving the pics around would help. Although I'm also pretty sure that your gallery image should be fine. Even if Auctiva is having problems it should still show up at eBay on the search results. Also, did you know that you have the option of using externally hosted images? I've never done it myself but it may be something to look into. I think you just need to upload them to some other host and then tell...
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Re: Auctiva Mike ~ WHY no announcement?????
I thought I was the only one with this problem. I switched my auctions to Ioffer and to yahoo. I have five items people wanted to see pics on, that's how I found out. Lol, what a surprise. I've started to switch my pics to my migente and hi5 profiles, so to host the pics onto my ebay, ioffer, and yahoo auctions. Lol, have to do something or no sales. hope you guys at auctiva will let us know when you'll have this fixed. thanks
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Re: ....More Reports of Image Hosting Problems
I think it may be helpful to point out that auctiva gives us the ability to host our images on other servers not just theirs and still use everything else they supply. I can't vouch for them but have been recomended to try photobucket and so I have been slowly transferring my images to them and so far been working well. Their image hosting is also free.Only 1 downside I can see is that auctiva automatically downsizes your images + allows potential buyers to see an enlarged version if they...
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Re: How do I use free templates from the internet?
I'm not sure about using templated downloaded from the net, I have never done that but I would think it would be like any other template you use. You'll need to get the HTML and add the Auctiva Tags to it and the images used in the template will need to be saved to your picture host and the URLs replaced. If you need help you can always paste the HTML here: www.practiceboard.com Then post a link back here so we can take a look at it
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Re: Can you use Spare Dollar templates?
Hi, I have given permission in the past for mine to be used as long as the credit stays in place. Mine are done by eCloset Clothing and More If you use any from the warhouse PLEASE make sure you change all the image url from SD to Auctiva or whatever place you use to host images. Its just not right to keep using their space if your not using their service! Hollar if you need anymore help
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Re: custom template is messed up- Need HTML help PLEASE!!
Your auction looks fine to me. There were posts on eBay's stores board about other people having issues. I think that it was something with her site. You may want to host the backgrounds yourself to save this from happeneing again.
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Re: CONFUSED!!!!
This sounds great...the templates are really nice now, and I'm looking forward to seeing the new ones. I know NOTHING about creating them, (HTML is a mystery to me) but I hope someone has a template with model trains that they are willing to share. My husband has decided to sell most of his HO scale trains, and I'd like to find a catchy template to show them off.
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Re: Could someone help with Template issue PLEASE!!
Flashdance, did the seller state they would host the graphics or that you need to upload to a host?
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Re: Could someone help with Template issue PLEASE!!
She said I need to upload the graphics to a host.
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Re: What am I doing wrong
I double-checked everything against the one that I use and it's the same, so I don't know what the problem was. I was able to list with it okay the other day. Just a note - I may be 'discontinuing' that template from my list in the next month or so. You may want to save the images to your own host. If you would like me to send you an email with the images, please let me know.
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Re: "How to List" Class - Fri. 11/18 @ 4 PM PST - Sign up now!
Due to illness, the host of this class has rescheduled it for next Friday. He will e-mail everyone who signed up. What this also means, is there is still time to sign up for next Friday's class! Bill
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Re: Newbie ? about ended auction
It is now the 15th, still listed as active W/no bids. Only 2 out of 5 store pics work(one is of the ended auc). I fail to see how this is the "best thing going". Of what value is something that's free that doesn't work? The ONLY thing of real value is the free hosting of multiple auction pics, and IF I want to post more than I pic on an auction I've found free places before and I'll find free places again to host them. If you like Auctiva, use it. As for me, unless things change in a major...
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Re: no picture available
saulsko, Typically, the no image available message is diaplayed for imported listings that don't have a header or gallery image or listings that use eBay stock images. When we import listing and create images for display in the Auctiva store, we pull the header or gallery image from the listing. If a listing has neither, it will display the no picture available. Also, we are unable to host eBay stock images, so we are unable to display those in the Auctiva store or store window. If you don't...
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Re: File size, slooow load times and big drop in sales
I'm thinking that it may be my pictures that are loading slow. I was just checking the properties of some of them and they were pretty big. With the compression program I just installed today I can get any estimate of how long it will take the image to load at 56K speed and one of them said it would take over a minute. WOW I was able to shrink that to about 17 seconds without loosing to much of the picture quality. I think that the problem I am having is due to the fact the my last image...
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Re: Adding pictures
It is not necessary to pay eBay to host additional pictures for you if you need more than 16 of them in your listing. If you want to go beyond 16 pictures, you can do so by adding them into the description area of your listing. There is an icon in the Description Editor that has a Mountain and Sun picture on it. You can use that one to add in as many pictures as you like. Mike