Tagged With "imagine hosting"
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Pictures Failing
I've read the other messages regarding the same problem and have done all the remedies, to no avail. Can someone direct me to another free, Web host that is fairly easy to use? I really liked Auctiva but cannot wait another week to start listing my auctions and I'm not sure when this problem will get solved. The same thing happened about a month ago but was fixed fairly quickly...not this time. Many thanks.
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Pictures refuse to load Help please
Only just started using Auctiva to host pics. Have followed all the instructions but still can't load my pictures.Using the "drag and Drop" Can anyone help please?
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problem hosting images on ebay
Hi I've been using auctiva for a while, i used the templates and uploaded the listings from auctiva. but then i wanted to use ebays 'variations' this was not possible to do with auctiva unless i upgraded the account, so i just started to use auctiva to host the images and use the item display banner thing. The problem is ebay won't let me host images becuase the html code is too big, when i select copy image and paste it into the item description i get an error: 'please shorten your...
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Posting a photo to craigslist
I need to have a web host site to post a photo for an item I am selling locally on craigslist. I do use auctiva for my ebay auctions, but can I do the same for a photo posted to craigslist. Thanks, ladf1
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Posting one or more pics to an existing ebay listing
Occasionally, I find I have picture I want to add to an ebay listing. In the past, I could copy the http link from Auctiva Images, where I host my pics and open the ebay listing by using revise, and click add picture and several boxes would open up for me to paste the link into. Now when I do it, it won't give me a new box to add a picture. All it allows me to do with regard to adding is add a gallery pic, which I don't want to do. Is this new? Or am I missing a click when I want to add one...
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photos wont load ????
been a member of auctiva for quite a few years now but havent used it since they have started charging a fee... i paid for the smallest package today. and have been trying all afternoon to load some pic's on a auction,, 1st it wouldn't let me copy paste some pic's onto the add (done a few then wouldnt let me do anymore... (always used to let me do as many as i wanted before strange) anyway went to upload images and it does nothing when i click on it.. nothing at all .. changed the host but...
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Pick-up only auction...what's your thoughts?
A guy here at work asked me if I'd want to list an outboard motor for him. I hedged a bit due to the weight, but he said it'd be for local pick-up only. But the more I think about it, the more I'm tempted to decline. He's offering to give me all the fees plus a percentage of the selling price, and I did already sell another item for him (a new radar detector, so that was easy to take possession of to photograph and ship, etc.). But I keep thinking...I'd have to go to his house to take the...
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Re: An open letter to Auctiva Jeff CEO regarding Auctiva problems
For being one of the largest ebay solution, I just can't believe how incredibly bad the performance of there system is. More than half the time I use the system, it hangs up. I'm not a violent person, but I've actually thrown my wireless mouse across the room because of the frustration I've had with auctiva's extremely poor performance. I've gotten use to the interface and would rather not switch, but it may come to that soon. I'm just afraid I'll loose customers because the photos they host...
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Re: No pics showing inmy scrolling gallery
Hi ja-knits, Thanks for helping to bring this issue to our attention. We did recently see a number of cases from sellers who use Photobucket to host their images reporting that our system can no longer generate scrolling gallery images from them and we found that this is occurring because of a problematic change on the Photobucket end of things. It sounds like you may be affected by that issue. We expect to be able to address this problem by making some configuration changes on our end and...
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Re: great until we are up and running saefely..
ebay and atomicmall.com is my 100% income. atomicmall doesn't do the template thing but can host 6 photos either from external storage or from your computer and is a buy it now format. I do well on both. I posted a new program on seller central on ebay for the time being down here.
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Re: Issue with posting a listing - consistent email error
Hi, On the assumption you are working OK for submissions directly at eBay and this is a problem with first submission at Auctiva.... On the Auctiva one-page lister for each listing you submit, make sure the PayPal payment address is correct and fully defined, e.g. myaddy@hotmail.com with @url of the eMail host. Check that you have the correct eBay account linked by checking the eBay Account User name and Email Address in your Auctiva account setting for eBay at the MY ACCOUNT tab. Danno
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Re: template profile only part way posting
Hi Deb, Glad you like the idea. You'll have to let me know if you want to try that out with some test videos with your models. Think listing and/or fashion show for your fashion creations as possibilities. A simple way to add the videos to the listing is a challenge. If Auctiva wants to jump on board, a series of [VIDEO] tags would definitely help the project. The player you see is the standard Youtube "Chrome" player. I used the YouTube Chrome Player (it has the built-in toolbar at bottom)...
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Re: Directing my website to my auctiva store
Hi ReplacementSterling, Thanks for letting us know about this. I'm not really sure why you are seeing what you have described in your Go Daddy account, but I believe Go Daddy's support team would be able to help you with this. If you contact them and say "I would like the host records for www.yourdomain.com to point to 38.102.35.108 using a A record." , they should be able to help you out. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact our customer support team...
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Re: suggestions for other hosting site?
I have been doing auctions since 1998 and have tryed other listing services at a hefty cost for them and still had the same problems with them can't mention names but the one I liked and stayed with the longest went down for close to a week and when it came back up no one could use the ceckout for another 4 days needless to say I quit them and went back to using ebay service for auctions which has the lest problems but they still have theres too and it cost you to do just about everything. I...
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Re: My listing has a HUGE blank space...
Hi Sturdybuilt, Again, I'm not seeing the gap permanently on my check of your page. However, I do occassionally see the page on slow load not complete its collapse of the page frame for a short delay....and that is IFRAME issue. I can tell it's an IFRAME by right-mouse click and properties on the description section. You'll see the link for the page is to the new domain for IFRAME pages vi.ebaydesc.com host. The ebaydesc domain is where they are hosting the descriptions loaded into the...
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Re: Optimum Uploading size for images.
Hi Rubber I sell mainly postcards and like to show them as large as possible so that my bidders can see exactly what they are bidding on in regard to the subject and the card's condition. To obtain this size image from a postcard of 5.5 inches by 3 inches I scan in at c.200dpi. This gives me an image of around 1093 x 719 and 350kb approx. Using auctivas uploader which optimises [and compresses?] this image to 1024 often increases the file size! If I scan at 200dpi and then save at 72dpi to...
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Re: Crop Tool Not Working?
Hi Sam999, I would open a Support Case reporting the problem with IE7 - Vista. I just tried using IE8 in Compatibility Mode and that didn't fail either. It's possible something is blocking the script from running, I think this one loads from Google's library. Any chance you have a antivirus/firewall product blocking scripts from other than host domain loading? In the interum, you might try installing Firefox. It's an easy install and provides a good fallback for sites with bugs. You could...
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Re: Template help PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Hi, If it's the photo-hosting fee that's the immediate problem that's forcing the decision, you can host at photobucket and use the copy - paste of their links to the one-page lister. In the Image Selection section, use "switch to externally hosted images". I remember your template The image tags are all [IMAGEx_URL] in your template. http://www.practiceboard.com/?10324440 You'd need to manually remove and replace the tags with real host URL links or another method to use outside of Auctiva.
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Re: Pictures location - Custom Template
Hi, You can use your own Auctiva account or other hosting services like Photobucket for your images. You can embed flash type elements in templates. However, you'll need to locate a site to host the flash file, i.e. eBay and Auctiva don't host those files other than the ones they use for their services, like the Auctiva Scrolling Gallery. Photobucket (Pro) and Hotlinkfiles.com are possible alternatives. Danno
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Re: Pictures location - Custom Template
Hi, Auctiva doesn't give access to their template image library for storage of custom template images. Yes, you can upload to your account's image folders and the link(s) for the individal photos are on the Image Management page. Auctiva can host gif and jpeg images under your account image storage as part of that service. Images are stored with a folder unique to your Auctiva member account number and each image gets a unique id# and suffix for the set of original, standard, and thumb, e.g.
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Re: Has anybody seen this?
What options do I have for my pictures? You can use eBay Picture Services to host your pictures or you can use a 3rd party picture hosting service.
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Re: only 24 images on a listing?
Rosalie, The Standard Plan has unlimited listings & 1GB of image hosting for the plan.(Additional image hosting space can be purchased above 1GB). (totally unrelated to the # of pictures per listing). Individual listings are limited to 24 pictures max per listing, that is correct. That seems like quite a lot of photos for one auction/listing, but I understand you have 70 pcs. Maybe there's some way you can find to group them that will display them well. You could host add't pictures on...
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Re: "Take Product Pics that Sell"
Ok, eBay boycott aside, and nevermind the fact I no longer shop on eBay because of their policies that despise the small time seller (and by small time, I mean anything less than 1/2 a million per month). So, since eBay is a non-factor for many sellers, that part of the article is irrelevant. However, since people can and do sell successfully on other sites like Onlineauction, Ioffer, etsy, Amazon, Bonanzle, or a host of other places, this is still great info. In the article it states "I...
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Re: Image Upload Failed...2 days in a row
Hi zoe_b1, Our Free Tools plan that you are currently subscribed to only includes 1 MB of image hosting space (~10 images) so I suspect that you most likely do not have a sufficient amount of space left of the 1 MB included with your plan to support the hosting of more images. Assuming this is the case, you should see the following message on your Manage Images page: "Looks like you need more image hosting storage than the free 1 MB limit we provide. To continue image uploading and editing,...
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Re: two ebay id's on one auctive account?
Wemby, No, it is not possible to use one Auctiva account to list across multiple eBay IDs. Though you can use your one Auctiva account to HOST photos for another ID. I have two Auctiva accounts, for seperate selling IDs. When I finally subscribed to a store, I opened another account, to enable me to take advantage of the 100 free auction listings per month, for my other selling category. The good news is...you will get another free 30-day trial on a new Auctiva account. And you can choose...
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Re: A way for buyers to see pics!!!!!
I was able to even include a link. I also mentioned other seller's images being down - I thought maybe we could all do this and help get the word out to shoppers (see my last line): ATTENTION SHOPPERS! OUR IMAGE HOST IS TEMPORARLIY DOWN, TO VIEW PRODUCT IMAGES UNTIL THE PROBLEM IS FIXED, PLEASE GO TO OUR VIEW SELLERS OTHER ITEMS STORE or LIST TO SEE! VIEW SELLERS OTHER ITEMS STORE LINK TO SEE THE IMAGES SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE Many seller's pictures are down try this on their auctions...
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Re: Gallery pics
Hi, Sounds good but where is the option to remove pictures. All I have when I enter revise item is a greyed out "add picture" box and when I click on "add or remove options" the option there is "Host pictures on your server instead of eBay servers". Selecting this makes no difference at all. How do I delete a picture in order to re-upload it again. Sorry if I'm being extra dim.
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Re: What's up with try to make listings?
Just happens the day you joined up (Sunday), was the day our Photo Host had a major outage, that extended for 11+ hours. That can (and did) mess up everybody's day - and thankfully such outages are quite rare. Normally - and things are back to normal now - the Pics load up as fast as from any server anywhere.
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Re: Failed Uploads Again? It's not the size...
No--no word from Auctiva what's going on--do file a Help request ..... here's a quick link..... Help / Support Request]http://www.auctiva.com/help/requesthelp.aspx]Help / Support Request . IN THE MEANTIME -- 1.) upload your pics to a free host site (I use Photobucket) 2.) when creating your listing, at the bottom of the picture section, you'll see Image Hosting: Auctiva[ switch to externally hosted images ] ......... click Externally Hosted Images... 3.) You'll be taken to a new window to...
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Re: Brand new member with lots of questions...
Hi Loretta-Jo, I love Auctiva too and welcome to the throng of followers. By "Domain", do you mean you've purchased an Auctiva registered internet domain for the Auctiva Store? If so, yep, it's real all right. It's absolutely a bonified internet registered domain.....kinda cool isn't it? Looks good on the stationary and business cards, if you go that far. You can do some limited things with the Store page from the Store tab, including an About Us page for the Store. Pictures are loaded to...
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Re: Can I upload images to my domain using an FTP program like Filezilla
Hi, You can still use TurboLister and copy-paste the HTML code for the Scrolling Gallery for use. That's done from the link under the sample of your Gallery on the Store tab page. You can also build listings with the Auctiva listing editor and export the HTML code from the Saved Listings page (look for <HTML> at right of each). You can also insert pictures into your Auctiva-based template listing from external URLs (like ClicPic) or you can host them at Auctiva and insert-size the...
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Re: New 30-day BIN
I'm curious on this one, too. I'm sure Auctiva is working on it and will let us know. These eBay host Web sites must get so sick and tired of having to reprogram just to keep up with stupid eBay changes!
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Re: Pictures "Failing" computer problem!
I have also encountered this problem and have been in contact with the auctiva support team for over 24 hours to no avail. I since registered with another image host and have no problem. I'm not sure if it is our computers or what...but I am tired of beating my head against a wall. It's a real shame...I liked using auctiva. If you come across a resolution, please let me know.
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Re: EBAY'S NEW MAXIMUM SHIPPING POLICY
There are likely many motivators aside from increased FVF fees for these new policies. There is speculation that the idea is to move to a business model like Amazon, where the host venue dictates the allowed shipping fees charged in all categories. At a internet sellers meeting last night, a colleague stated that Griff himself suggested that sellers who are legitmately using the shipping calculator to charge actual shipping by weight would do well to post the actual poundage in your listing...
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Re: Sellathon
Ya it actually didn't work for me either. That's the correct IP but apparently we've not configured the site to run that way, it needs the host name. We fixed the DNS problem though. Reboot your computer and try again. It takes dns up to 30 minutes to clear at the ISP level. I've tested using our external connection and opendns and both are working now.
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Re: Programmers - Please add "Notes" field in Saved Listings!!
PROGRAMMERS: Please view my suggestion originally posted August 19, 2008! Auctiva members, if you agree that this suggestion would be helpful, PLEASE reply to this thread. Perhaps if enough people want this feature, they will consider it in the next update.
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Re: Site Down WHY can facebook be updated but NOT forum???
Why isn't Auctiva hosted by a site that has more than one location? (so that today's issue doesn't impact so many of us). It might be time to find a host that can redirect auctiva to an alternate location in the event of a power failure. Plenty of hosting services have multiple locations and have solid plans to move companies to alternate locations in the event of a power outage.
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Re: Trouble with Token after 12 years of selling on line?
below was the message I got from Support when I sent the one we received Hello. Thank you for contacting us regarding this issue. The email you have forwarded to us is indeed a spoof email. We have contacted the host of the spoof website, and are working with them to have it taken down. For future reference, we've recently removed all links from our email communications regarding your sensitive account information. In other words from this point forward Auctiva will not send you an email...
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Re: Trouble with Token after 12 years of selling on line?
Would it not be helpful to send an email to everybody with that information. I am constantly getting spoof emails purporting to be from Auctiva which I just delete but others are maybe not as computer savvy as myself
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Need some html help please!
Any time that I use a template this happens. If you take the source code from the listing and post it wherever you're listing directly and then try to edit it, the template look gets affected as well. What am I doing wrong? I get broken lines, picture loss, and parts of the template disappear. If for example you're posting on Google Base, there are all these strange x's and arrows. I've learned not to mess with them as they tend to make things worse, but it would be nice to know their...
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New Account-How can I manually upload pics from current and recently closed auctions?
It's been a few weeks since I opened my Auctiva account. Most of my pics from previously listed ebay store inventory have still not uploaded to Auctiva (a few hundred photos). They are visible in my auctions because I am still paying to host them on Picture Manager. I've filed a help ticket and, in summary, was told the pics had been manually uploaded by Auctiva and should be available - but, they're not. The last instruction I received from Auctiva on the help ticket is as follows: Hello,...
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questions about domain forwarding
I'm considering moving the stock at my own shop/domain over to eCrater. The reason is because adding stock to eCrater is easier and more efficient. It doesn't have all of the bells & whistles (yet) that my current shop does (I'm using CubeCart) but since that shop isn't actually a main source of income I might be willing to make the trade-off. So, that said I wonder if anyone could help me figure out how to go about forwarding my domain to the eCrater shop? Is that what it's called --...
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Programmers - Please add "Notes" field in Saved Listings!!
It would be so helpful to add a Seller Notes field (that only the seller sees) to the Saved Listings. This would be similar to the Notes field shown under each listing in "My Ebay." This would give us the opportunity to attach notes to saved listings such as...inventory #, shipping info, notes to self regarding item. This should be a simple add-on to saved listings and would be so useful for everyone. My prior auction host management site had this and I really miss the Seller Notes field. I...
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Remember the good ol Ebay days
I remember the good ol ebay days when I bought an item for 9.00 that retailed for 21.00 and sold it for 109.00 on ebay after 32 bids for the thing. I remember when I signed up with the western bank of colorado and got 10.00 cash in my account and started to get paypal payments and got 10.00 for everyone that signed up. Then it went to 5.00 and then nothing. I signed up a lot of folks. I remember paypal had a list of the folks that signed up. I remember when in my venue there were not 6,000...
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Remove photo from listing?
I put an incorrect picture on one of my listings. While I can edit the listing in ebay to remove the one photo, when you click on the supersize option, the photo is still there. Is there any way to remove a photo in an active listing from the Auctiva host? Thanks!
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Why does only 1 image get uploaded to eBay?
Whenever I post a new listing, only 1 image gets uploaded to eBay while any other images do not. the other images are shown within my description, which are hosted by Auctiva. But I want more than one image to show up on the actual eBay listing and not just in HTML linking to an external host.
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Re: Problem Listing.
I think Auctiva had the potential to be a fantastic alternative to listing directly with EBay. The ability to host and post additional pics without paying the additional per/pic charge was and is very attractive. However, the bugs within Auctiva makes it unreliable and extremely frustrating to use for creating and posting my listings. I still use Auctiva for image hosting and I like the templates but I use Turbo Lister 2 to create and post listings. I upload my images to Auctiva and simply...
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Re: Lost Listing During Saving!!
Hi Max: Yes it is. I design and layout everything with Turbo Lister. I use Auctiva to host my images and Auctiva Store Front because Auctiva allows you to use their templates, and also you can post many pics without paying EBay's per-image fees. All you have to do is upload your images to Auctiva. Then go to manage images on Auctiva. Each image has a URL. Copy the URL address for the pic you want to use in Turbo Lister and then paste it where you want it in Turbo Lister. In Turbo Lister in...
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Re: Red X in box on active listing
Have you deleted the photos from your "Uploaded Images" folders in Auctiva? If so, the images will not appear in the eBay listing. Auctiva acts as a "host" for your eBay listing, so the images MUST remain on the Auctiva website during the entire time your listing is active. If you delete the photos, they will appear as red X's on eBay.