posted on March 11, 2004 01:42:21 PM new
I launched an auction to Ebay, then realized I wanted to make a change to one of the embedded images. I uploaded my new image to vendio, and via Ebay, I revised the html code in the description. The "click to" large-sized image works fine, but the image at the top of the listing, plus the standard size embedded image do not work.
Unfortunately, someone has bid on my item already and I cannot make any changes to the description (but I did add the image to the description) However, upon viewing the source code for the auction, it seems as if I did everything right, but somehow it still does not work properly.
The auction is at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3467525271
The image in question is g2tbabyluluset003.jpg, which was changed from g2tbabyluluset001.jpg
posted on March 11, 2004 05:21:27 PM new
To obtain the code which contains your image URL(s), follow these steps:
1. Click the Image Hosting tab.
2. Check the box next to the image(s) that you wish to select.
3. On the bottom of the page, click the "Attach" button.
4. Choose "Other Auction Site (generate HTML)", select New Auction, and click "Continue"
5. On the next page, copy and paste the entire block of HTML (which includes your image URL) into the description box of the auction listing form.
If you wish to use only the image URL, it/they will be embedded in the HTML code generated by our system. If you do not have the "click to enlarge" feature enabled, the image url will look like this:
If you have the "click to enlarge" feature enabled, you will need to alter the ".mids" URL to create the correct image URL. To do this, just remove the /.mids portion of the URL. Here is an example:
The "after" URL can be used in any auction and can be altered to point to any image in your list simply by changing the image filename portion - just be sure that the filename *exactly* matches the filename on our site (case-sensitive.)
Best Regards,
posted on March 11, 2004 07:43:23 PM new
Unfortunately, I cannot make any changes to my auction because someone bid on it while I was trying to make the changes!
Here's my auction link again: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15635&item=3467525271
I would love it if you would humor me and take a good look at the following, and let me know what I've done wrong and how you can help me.
The first image that doesn't work is kind of like a thumbnail at the top of the auction page - According to it's properties it points to this URL: http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/kellilou/.mids/g2tbabyluluset003.JPG
It seems on the surface that I made a mistake because I had the ".mids" in the URL, however, my other active auction has the same exact format of URL for it's thumbnail image. All I did was replace the "001" with "003" and that's IT.
For the images which are "clickable" for supersizing, the properties points to the same exact format of URL as above. What's more is that the "unavailable" image can be "clicked" on, and the supersizing works fine.
I was a bit confused by your response - are you saying that if you make a change to an image in an auction, that you have to do more than just change the jpg filename? I.E. the URL address format is completely different from the original launched version when you make a change - remove the ".mids" part?
I'm so confused and now disappointed that my auction is screwed up. Is there any way just to make those existing links work on your end?
posted on March 11, 2004 09:09:03 PM new
Forget everything. I had to cancel the bid I got, end the auction early, then relist the auction and correct the photos. I still don't understand why the first one was so screwed up. Oh well.
posted on March 12, 2004 11:34:35 AM new
Hi kellilou. Here's why things seemed fouled up. When we set up an auction through vendio and submit a single image, it is routed by vendio into 2 separate places: 1)it gets put in our vendio description according to whatever layout we selected or wherever we put our html for it if it's embedded, and 2) it also gets submitted to ebay directly. Those two locations then behave differently after they get to ebay.
If we use more than one picture, the one routed to ebay directly is whatever we set up in our vendio preferences (the vendio logo, a specific image, or our first image). If you selected the first image in your preferences, then that is what went to ebay for ebay's use.
Anything that can be fixed within the vendio html can be fixed by just changing the image file name to another image in our description html. That is why you could change the image in your description okay.
What arrives in the ebay location becomes the ebay setting. Changing the embedded description html does not change the image that was originally made available by vendio for ebay's direct use. That has to be changed separately on the 'change your item' page lower down in the attached images section, not the html section. Whatever image code is in the ebay location becomes the pic that rolls into your auction at the very bottom as the last thing, and gets resized by ebay into the ebay upper left Preview Image box.
So--if you deleted the pathway connecting the ebay location to the only image ebay was set to recognize, the ebay location would then behave as if the image was absent. That is why you got 'image unavailable' messages in the upper left preview box. If you had also scrolled down on the 'change your item' page to the image attachment location and changed the image code/file name there also, that would have changed out the image at the bottom and in the upper left preview Image box as well.
You just happened to select the one image to change that was also your vendio preference choice to be submitted to ebay, and you evidently didn't change it in both locations at ebay before there were bids.
