# Ebay listing photos **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 23, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-listing-photos/691456 "2014-06-23T16:59:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-listing-photos/691456/1 "2014-06-23T16:59:27Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Artemis\_Tardis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Artemis\_Tardis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Artemis_Tardis)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-listing-photos/691456/2 "2014-06-23T17:12:20Z")
Do a Google reverse image search. ---
**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-listing-photos/691456/3 "2014-06-23T17:43:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-listing-photos/691456/4 "2014-06-23T17:50:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-listing-photos/691456/5 "2014-06-23T18:15:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-listing-photos/691456/6 "2014-06-23T18:21:01Z")
I do it all the time for unopened items myself. In fact eBay sometimes even has stock photos for such purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-listing-photos/691456/7 "2014-06-25T14:03:42Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-listing-photos/691456/8 "2014-06-25T15:28:36Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-listing-photos/691456/9 "2014-06-25T16:18:21Z")
I always assume it’s a stock photo unless the ad says otherwise.