posted on November 27, 2001 12:39:53 PM new
Its real simple. Here's what you do.
You start a 3 day auction on Thursday evening. Don't upload any pictures yet. Be very very vague in the description. No words like live/dates/etc or any of those other trigger words. Come Friday night, upload the pictures. The suites can't file their ebay complaints, they are at home with the wife and kids. Sunday night the auction ends, email winner, tell them the pictures are going to be deleted... Make sure to delete em, so when the suits come into work on Monday and see something sold for 100 bucks, no picture, no description, no valid complaint. Simple, so simple it's genius!
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I would love some feedback on this....
posted on November 27, 2001 12:48:50 PM new
Hosting pictures outside eBay is a problem that hasn't yet erupted.
Not only can you put your auction description in the image, you can put all kinds of things in the image and it won't show up in a search. You can also change the image at will. Once the problem with images does arrise, eBay will force us all to use eBay's picture hosting services - eBay will claim it is to stem fraud.
Why not put the whole description and picture in the image and leave the title vague , just put the shipping information in the description ? That way you can run the auction anytime. The VEROs are using word searches to find suspected violators.
