GarageSale 8 Public Beta

[Neal]

@ilja

eBay’s image server only allows 10, if I’m not mistaken

In the USA, eBay Picture Service EPS allows a maximum of 12 images.

Neal

[ntm]

Ilja,

50 images would be a great help.

Better news on GTC being included in the new subscription.

Thanks.

[kristian]

@ntm

ebay still allow watermarks, assuming they do not offer business or contact details.

Are you sure this is still allowed? On this eBay page they say:

Don’t add text or artwork.

No text or artwork, like “Free Shipping” or seller logos, may be added to photos. Use the title, subtitle, and description box to include details of your item.

Regards, Kristian

[fedege96]

@kristian @ilja I literally went mad for watermark matter since I do sell photos and postcards (as you probably remember from that period over the forum, I was quite disappointed…), I went deep in this matter and yes, now eBay partially allows watermarks, but it says that watermarked listings are not indexed in external search engine. Don’t ask me how they could find the watermarked ones (they don’t, actually… it’s just to scare users from using the watermark), this was the solutions they gave us after months and months of thousands complaints. I do use watermark on my own and I advice @ntm to do the same. An external watermark app is the best solution from my point of view. Just drag and drop thousands scans and they are put in a separated folder watermarked.

[Freedolin]

@ilja

Strange, a few years back we were told by eBay to remove any watermarking features from our software. We only included the EPS watermarking checkbox at that time. We’ll have to investigate what the current rules are.

Watermarks were officially banned by eBay a while ago, as one of the steps required to achieve a bigger goal: catalogue based listings, similar to what amazon does. For that, eBay wanted to force all sellers to accept that any image uploaded to their servers could be used by eBay as potential default image for an item in the catalogue. For that, images with watermarks would have been useless (for eBay).

The attempt to grab the right to use any image from any seller caused a big turmoil (at least in Germany), with many sellers seeing themselves unable to either want to give these rights to eBay (count me in here) or simply unable to do so, because they used copyrighted images from manufacturers, which they had the right to use for their own listings, but definitely not the right to sublicense them to eBay.

In the end, eBay hat to give up the idea. The strict rules regarding watermarks are officially still in place, but at least eBay Germany does not enforce them. Many sellers in the market area that I sell in still or again use watermarked images.

[ilja]

While individual sellers might get away with using watermark images, eBay probably wouldn’t like official tools like GarageSale to bring back that option. We know that we are on eBay’s radar, and we depend on good relations with them, so bringing that option back would be to risky.

For people needing watermarks, I suggest to look for a batch watermark app for Mac, and use that before importing images into GarageSale.

[fedege96]

@ilja

While individual sellers might get away with using watermark images, eBay probably wouldn’t like official tools like GarageSale to bring back that option. We know that we are on eBay’s radar, and we depend on good relations with them, so bringing that option back would be to risky.

For people needing watermarks, I suggest to look for a batch watermark app for Mac, and use that before importing images into GarageSale.

I totally agree @ilja , as I said in my previous message, I suggest @ntm to use an external app for watermark. Moreover, it gives you the possibility to manage more details and functionalities with watermark. Watermark is something necessary for photos and postcards sales. eBay just made decisions for all without having the minimal idea of what it could create between sellers…

[RoyBatty]

@Neal

In the USA, eBay Picture Service EPS allows a maximum of 12 images. And a minimum of 3 photos is required.

I believe you’re right about the eBay Picture Service limit of 12 in the U.S., but I’m not aware of a minimum of 3. I put listings up all the time with only 2 photos and I see many listings from others with only 1 photo.

[ntm]

I do use a watermark app but was thinking that if one was built into GS it would save me a little extra time each week (however, it is not a huge hassle for me).

[Neal]

@Neal

And a minimum of 3 photos is required.

Oh. OOPS! Sorry. Not sure where I came up with that!! “You must include a minimum of one image per product.” I THINK they “recommend” a minimum of 3 photos when creating a new listing online.

Neal

[Michelle]

@ilja

For people needing watermarks, I suggest to look for a batch watermark app for Mac, and use that before importing images into GarageSale.

I use EasyBatchPhoto for watermarks, and I have for close to 7 years now.

I got it for its batch resizing (so I could lower the resolutions as well as the sizes of eBay and other pictures). But it has a watermark feature which works with no problems ever which I use most of the time.

You simply set the opaqueness and position for the watermark, and then check the box whenever you want what you’re working on marked.

I always keep it on. Available in the Apple store.

[fedege96]

I use visual watermark, it’s a very immediate app, drag and drop in a sort of “watermark template” and it puts out all watermarked (and if you want also resized) photos almost immediately. This is a very little time spare compared to photographing and editing…