posted on September 15, 2003 01:48:53 PM new
Hi Ed,
Your correct, eBay is not using the gallery image in the iPix location anymore unfortunately. We will try to get an update from them on what the status is of this issue, and get back to you as soon as possible.
posted on September 16, 2003 06:58:02 AM new
Sonya, What I mean is that when you click on Go To Larger Image It doesn't navigate to the larger picture but to the description or the bottom of the auction and you have to scroll to find the larger picture. I changed my ebay photo preferences like you told me to and everything in working fine, but the auctions I already posted before the change didn't change and I now understand they won't. I may ask powersellers for a refund on the .25 per gallery fee. Thank you
posted on September 16, 2003 01:54:53 PM new
sonya, I thought I said thank you everything is workin find now. I went to ebay specifics and change to use the first image at the bottom and now I have gallery on all my new auctions I put on yesterday. What I meant earilier about the top selection on gallery is at the Features area it has a button for gallery or not in gallery which would make it automatic every auction not just the ones I selected on AMPRO. I had tried that hoping my old auctions would work but alas no. Let us all know when ebay gives you a new API set up. I hope Ed get's straight soon too.
posted on September 16, 2003 03:04:40 PM new
Hi Chris and Sonya,
I just discovered something that may help Vendio figure out why that box on top is blank when launched to eBay. In the eBay SYI form there is a section: Add Pictures, Your own Web hosting-Enter your picture URL,Picture URL (Web address). When my auctions are accepted by eBay as launched by Vendio, that section is filled with the following: http://imagehost.vendio.com/images/cleardot.gif
If I replace that Vendio gif with the url of my vendio hosted embedded image, the top box fills properly with the image and is no longer blank.
What is that gif that vendio sends to eBay? Wouldn't it be simple to simply transmit your customer's gallery pic url instead of the Vendio gif?
posted on September 17, 2003 04:39:51 AM new
Hey guys,
Is this just a placeholder or something? Why is it sent to eBay as the URL to fill the upper image box? Is is something I'm doing? How far is up?
posted on September 17, 2003 11:22:01 AM new
Hello bto,
The eBay API does not yet support the checkbox that will allow you to specify that there is an image in the auction if you do not enter a URL in the main image field. In order to work around this, we submit the cleardot.gif to activate the camera icon. We will need to continue to do this until API support for the self-hosted image feature is implemented, otherwise no camera icon will appear.
Because of the changes eBay recently made to allow self-hosted images in the previously iPIX-hosted image space in the top-left portion of the listing, unless you have attached an image to your listing through our system and have 'use the first image in the listing' selected in your Picture Preview preferences, a blank box will appear at the top of the listing. If you are not using the Gallery, you can select the Vendio logo or upload your own logo and use those options instead. Until API support is implemented, these are the best workarounds we can offer.
