I dislike the minimum pixel width requirement. In the first place what is the point in dictating a such a requirement? Not every single product in the eBay marketplace requires a high resolution image to satisfactorily depict it.
I have a 7.0 megapixel camera. It makes a pretty nice high res image but sometimes I think my product would be better showcased if I could crop out all the irrelevant parts of the image. If the product is small in size, lighting and lense focus may result in a relevant image rectangle that is less than 500 pixels wide on the longest side.
Thus I have been forced to include excessive amounts of irrelevant background in some pictures just to satisy the 500 pixel requirement. This seems stupid.
Second, and more important, the 500 pixel requirement is extremely poorly integrated with the crop function in the images section of the "create/revise listing" form.
Perversely the crop function will allow you to crop an image that is less than 500 pixels on its longest side, waste your time uploading the cropped image and only then error out or return an error when you go to submit the revision. Why allow the user to crop an image smaller than the system will accept? Why not warn / stop the users at the time they are drawing the cropping rectangle rather than wasting their time by allowing the cropping only to error out at a later time? That seems really stupid.
