Getting lots of error time out messages and listings are not uploading to GS server.
Speed seems ok but there may be a boxing day bottleneck somewhere.
Any chance of a reboot?
David
Can someone from GS Help explain exactly whagt this problem is. Is it an internet or GS image server issue?
David
I’ve been having the same issue, randomly about 1/20 of uploads (each of which has ~5 images). It seems to be stalling on eBay. Specifically (just based on progress bars) I think an eBay image server is not "finishing” uploads by confirming or accepting the last chunks.
If I stop and repeat the process, it usually works.
Hi Bill
I have only been uploading about 1 in 10 got the last 6 hours. I do load large images though and I do understand that being Boxing Day, the network may be saturated. It was fine this morning though.
I have rebooted everything.
This issue has been mentioned many times before without a solution. It would be interesting to know where the message originates.
Regards David
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I’ve been having the same issue, randomly about 1/20 of uploads (each of which has ~5 images). It seems to be stalling on eBay. Specifically (just based on progress bars) I think an eBay image server is not "finishing” uploads by confirming or accepting the last chunks.
If I stop and repeat the process, it usually works.
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FWIW, I’ve not had that issue today, here in the US. I use my own image server, though obviously the images are also uploaded to eBay.
I managed to load the listing with a single image but when I try to revise it with 2 images, it fails.
This is the message I get.
I would like to know more about what is happening.
Regards David
Looks like an issue with Garage Sale’s image server. I don’t use it, as I have my own server so I do https over WebDAV. Any issues I’ve had will specify if they are due to ebay.com or a timeout to my server [which happens when I lose internet connection during an image upload].
Think I have worked out the problem but I do not know how to fix it.
In the screen capture below, all the successfully uploaded listings have only ONE image. Every listing that failed has TWO images. I know it is the Christmas break but I would appreciate some help in resolving the issue.
I need to do lots of uploading to make use of an eBay offer of reduced fees during December.
Regards David
I’m not GS staff [hopefully that’s clear! 
] but a possible work-around to get the images up while the GS image server is having issues [or at least your connection to it is having issues] - do you have access to an FTP site? If so, you can use an FTP site to upload the images to. This would also assume you have a website where the images would be seen. I use WebDAV over HTTPS, but more common is FTP over TLS/SSL. You could make a website with a blank index.html file, just have an images folder [the site could be a subdomain like “ebayimages.mydomain.com”] and all your images from GS would live in ebayimages.mydomain.com/images/
This is basically what I do. Most hosting providers will give you FTP access to your website, and so if you don’t want to make a special domain just for it [like ebayimages], you could create a special folder on your website, like www.mydomain.com/ebayimages/ and then set GS to FTP the images to that folder. Something a bit like this example I just filled in on GS’ prefs
EDIT:" the download URL should be https://www.mydomain.com/ebayimages/ in the screenshot - my bad!
A Quick Look at your latest ebay listing, and it looks like the iwascoding image server is back online and you were able to upload images, as I see this one: https://img.iwascoding.com/2025/12/27/56/EFD3CEC58A2C41BF91A1A4E9F06D7884.jpg
Thanks for the suggestion but it is not an option for me. Occasionally I get one to load but it is hot and miss.
David
What do you get when you enter ping img.iwascoding.com into the Terminal? Looks like this for me.
Have you tried uploading listings while connected through a VPN service to the internet (NorthVPN, Privado VPN, …) . Since our servers show no issues, my guess is that your ISP may be using some kind of traffic shaping, which deprioritizes you uploads to the point that they time out, when the ISP’s network is under heavy load.
Thank you Ilja
I think you are correct.
Mine looks considerably slower yet the upload speeds sum ok.
But speed tests show:
Not as much as I am paying for but should be sufficient. Maybe the blockage is ex-Australia?
David
I’d still check if using a VPN with an exit node in Europe might improve the situation.
But it is only yesterday and today that I have experienced the issue.
Seems a bit of an overkill.
David
There’s an ongoing AWS outage over the last 48 hours which is affecting a lot of online services (including eBay’s own thumbnail servers, which show me “missing” images about 1/3 of the time right now). Even if there’s an issue on the GS server side, that can’t be helping.
Thanks Bill.
Regards David
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There’s an ongoing AWS outage over the last 48 hours which is affecting a lot of online services (including eBay’s own thumbnail servers, which show me “missing” images about 1/3 of the time right now). Even if there’s an issue on the GS server side, that can’t be helping.
For once this outage must not be the troubled east coast [US] set of servers as I’ve not had any issues with eBay thumbnails or any other websites the last 48 hours. The last AWS outage, definitely affected eBay for me but this one, thankfully, hasn’t. I wasn’t even aware of an AWS outage!
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100% this. If you don’t use a local website to host your images, this will help you. It won’t help your customers though as they won’t see the images if there’s issues with connecting Australia to the Europe based image server. Using a website based where most of your customers are located is the best bet and costs less than $10 USD a year for the kind of bandwidth your store would use. But to solve this temp issue a VPN would work perfectly for you. Your customers will see the images in the eBay gallery, just not the ones in your template that are hosted by iwascoding