eBay

richsrarities · ‎08-17-2018

I use eBay's picture services for every listing. As well, I also embed pictures within each listing's description. I favor fixed-price but usually throw in a handful of auctions each week. Tonight I looked at a new auction and its embedded picture wouldn't appear. After making sure its URL was correct and functional, I looked at the other ten auctions, of which seven had the same problem. Then I poked around among the 780 fixed-price listings and none had this problem. I'm still using Turbo Lister and preview every listing before uploading. So, I went back to the new listing in TL and previewed it again...pics okay and accounted for. So, now it's been about three hours and traffic is less, but still no embedded image. Why in the world would auctions have a problem while GTC listings do not? Are auctions hosted on old, tired servers? Thanks, Rich.

berserkerplanet · ‎08-17-2018

There is something wrong with your image host, if I'm looking at the right thing.

This auction listing of yours:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/382539875236
has a gray vertical bar/frame/tab;e with 7 broken image icons near top of description area.

Looking at the source for that listing's description frame we see:

center><table border=20 cellpadding=15><tr><td>
<IMG src="https://www.dick6jane.com/june2018/dscn6589.jpg"><br><br>
<IMG src="https://www.dick6jane.com/june2018/dscn6590.jpg"><br><br>
<IMG src="https://www.dick6jane.com/june2018/dscn6591.jpg"><br><br>
<IMG src="https://www.dick6jane.com/june2018/dscn6592.jpg"><br><br>
<IMG src="https://www.dick6jane.com/june2018/dscn6593.jpg"><br><br>
<IMG src="https://www.dick6jane.com/june2018/dscn6594.jpg"><br><br>
<IMG src="https://www.dick6jane.com/june2018/dscn6595.jpg">
</TD></TR></TABLE></CENTER>

Picked one of those links there at random:

https://www.dick6jane.com/june2018/dscn6590.jpg

tried to open it in a new tab, and.....

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

is what the image server returned. (a 400 Error - file not found).

richsrarities · ‎08-17-2018

These URLs explain the problem with this auction...The folder name is wrong. It has a bid so can't be corrected. Thanks very much for your dilligence. Oops, it's ended.

Care to take a look at this one? http://www.ebay.com/itm/382543826763