Problem loading pictures to new listings - message says internal error ME200

[ccc0336]

Unable to load new listings pictures - get above message

[eburtonlab]

@ccc0336 

Here are a couple of suggestions of things to try -- from a three year old thread, but worth a shot if you are in a hurry:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Internal-Error-ME200-when-I-try-to-add-pictures/qaq-p/25065178

[3eyedfishcatcher]

I just thought I would do a search of their help section for a list of error messages and for that specific message. It figures Ebay would not tell users what they mean and what steps need to be taken to fix the issue. Overall it fits with their general support premises of figure it out your self and if nothing works too bad. Phone support that has no real experience using Ebay and just reads you help articles and can not tell when things are not working right. Because of this they take the stance of if it is doing something in a particular way then that is how it should be and will always be and there can never be a problem that needs to be reported and looked into. Ebay support reps whos job premises is to monitor the community to identify issues and get them fix. Yet when you look at their resume on linked in they have zero formal education and their main job qualification is having a facebook and myspace account for more than 5 years. No formal education or any real IT experience. Most of the time they just read through postings and delete things to cover up issues and hide the fact that users are not happy and do not like the changes being forced on them. ITs the yahoo effect give up market shares on bad ideas refuse to admit you were wrong while losing users who will not come back till your site is irrelevant and can not recover.

[ccc0336]

This is not shown in the listing format - so unable to do what you suggest.  Probably too old a solution.

The picture starts to load and then starts to load again - then I get the message below

This is the whole message I get -

Internal Error (ME200)

Oops! We're experiencing some technical problems. Please remove this file and try again later.

[eburtonlab]

@ccc0336 

This is not shown in the listing format - so unable to do what you suggest. Probably too old a solution.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. I found lots of messages from folks running into this error, but not much in the way of real solutions posted, other than those suggestions. It sounds like this sort of thing crops up once in a while, and then goes away -- possibly as a result of eBay resetting something on their end.

[eburtonlab]

@3eyedfishcatcher 

I just thought I would do a search of their help section for a list of error messages and for that specific message. It figures Ebay would not tell users what they mean and what steps need to be taken to fix the issue.

Sometimes I find that if an error code is specific enough, you can find good results by simply googling the site name and the error code. In this case, googling "ebay me200 error" turns up many community posts, but not much in the way of actual solutions.

It seems that eBay's help section has not been keeping up with recent site changes. And some of the most useful information has been removed altogether and is only available on sites outside the US.

[3eyedfishcatcher]

You should not have to do a **bleep** google search for a issue inside of ebay!!!! That alone is just another example of how they do not provide proper support and try to resolve issue. Currently they are pushing purchases of new items on mobile device so when users on platforms they are not interested in supporting buying items the CEO wants ebay to move away from selling if they can not log on, see full search results and complete the check out process they get skewed results showing only mobile devices are being used to make purchases and the items being purchased are brand new from drop **bleep**ters. The numbers are fake and the issues since they are not being addressed and fixed are probably planned and intentional. Since ebay is always concerned about their bottom line it also points towards other revenue sources to make up for the lack in sales like apple paying ebay to provide bad experiences for other platforms to drive users to switch to their devices that are not selling. Then force them to have to use their apple pay service which is failing and has no were near the amount of users as paypal.  

[kolo1]

This happened to me tonight. Sign out of your ebay account, then clear cookies and cache. Wait a minute or so for your browser to fully complete the clearance, then sign back in to your ebay account. Pictures loaded fine after that - no more error message.

[ccc0336]

I had Norton do a scan - they fixed it - so I'm in business again.  -  Thanks to all.

[bigjerry1]

This fix worked for me last night 🙂