IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ADDING IMAGES TO YOUR PRODUCT LISTINGS

For product images to show up on your eBay listing in your new template, the product images must be ‘hosted’ or stored on the web. Images saved on your desktop will only be seen by you and not be other users on eBay. You can use a free image software programme such as Photobucket where you can save your images to first and then copy and paste from there (this should also help with removing necessary code behind the image).Adding your product images is just a case of copying and pasting, but it is important you think about where you are getting these images from as it may affect you in the future. You could, for instance, get your product images from your suppliers website. However if you copy an image from their website (or any website) and they change it in the future or remove it, then it will disappear from your listing! This is because the image is hosted on their website, they pay for its storage and they have control of it. A lot of eBay sellers just grab any image off Google and use it for their product by copying and pasting it in, but as well as the issue above you could also get in trouble from the original website owner for using an image without permission.

What we recommend is to take control of your product images. You can get free image hosting from websites like www.photobucket.com (this is where we put the images we used in our video on our website). They give you loads of free space, have some great free tools for you to resize your images, and as the images are stored in your account they will never be removed. There are other places you can store your product images (e.g. places like Google, Dropbox, iCloud etc. offer free image hosting). Of course if you have your own website, you can use any images from it. For most sellers, the ease of setting up a free account and using the free tools at Photobucket will be the easiest and quickest way to get up and running.