I am trying to make a listing. Previously I have gone through other listings and the internet and then copy and pasted what I liked to my listing. Today, however, every photo is too small (must be at least 500 pixels on one side). How do I check that this is met, or even better, is there a way to change the too small pictures I have to ones that are big enough?
Do a Google reverse image search.
I do that, and copy images that seem to be the correct size, and yet it still tells me that it is incorrect. Since I do not know how to tell if they are the appropriate size I do not know how to do this. It must be easy, everyone else seems to have no problems.
What the ???
Do not use any picture other than your actual item. Not under any circumstances.
Take your own pic and use that. If you don’t know how to do that, forget having a pic.
If I bought something and found out that what I bought wasn’t the specific item in the pic, I would be royally irked.
The last time I sold something, it was a Kindle. I used all kinds of stock photos and stock information. It was all for an item exactly like mine, and mine was unopened and I wanted to keep it that way. This is a similar situation. While is is possible that the unopened item is defective there is no reason to think that is so, and if I was buying I would rather have an unopened than opened item in all cases.
I do it all the time for unopened items myself. In fact eBay sometimes even has stock photos for such purposes.
I generally agree with this (and I think eBay mentions aspects of it in their user agreement). However for non-unique and nearly new items it’s pretty common. However you should always explicitly state in the listing that the photos are stock images and ***not ***of the actual item.
I’ll use stock photos if it’s a really generic type product like a little flash memory card, or a cpu chip or something like that, where a picture of the actual item isn’t going to tell you anything.
I always assume it’s a stock photo unless the ad says otherwise.