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Want to use My (own) Amazon Photos inside an eBay item description

Is it possible to imbed my own personal photos of items from My Amazon Photos in an item description on an eBay auction? I thought I had done so successfully and when I logged out of Amazon, all of the links were broken inside the item descriptions.

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Want to use My (own) Amazon Photos inside an eBay item description

As long as the photos are delivered over a secure https connection, eBay doesn't care about the source of photos embedded within the description. However, the image host or photo owner may care. Photo owners can file a VeRo claim to remove the pilfered photos from eBay listings (in your case, you are the owner of the photos). Some hosts will block hotlinking to sales venues. I don't know if Amazon blocks hotlinking from their hosting or whether a wrong or incomplete URL was copied.  Do you have a listing with the broken links?

 

ShipScript has been an eBay Community volunteer since 2003, specializing in HTML, CSS, Scripts, Photos, Active Content, Technical Solutions, and online Seller Tools.
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Want to use My (own) Amazon Photos inside an eBay item description

We found BucketLynx.com and have started using it for hosting our Amazon product image file links. We haven't used for eBay images yet, but there is no reason to believe it wouldn't work.

It's designed with large sellers managing thousands of products, so it's not free. But it is an option if you need image hosting that provides solid external image links.
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Want to use My (own) Amazon Photos inside an eBay item description

You can take a screenshot of the item and then edit it in your photo app. It can't say broken link once you've captured the image

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Want to use My (own) Amazon Photos inside an eBay item description

A screencapture may be a reasonable method for saving a photo to your computer, but it won't solve the problem of embedding the image down in the item description because it would still need to be hosted online somewhere.

 

 

ShipScript has been an eBay Community volunteer since 2003, specializing in HTML, CSS, Scripts, Photos, Active Content, Technical Solutions, and online Seller Tools.
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Want to use My (own) Amazon Photos inside an eBay item description

Did you ever get this to work?  I would also like to use Amazon Photos as the source for pictures I display in a listing, but have not been able to figure out how to find the URL for the actual Amazon image object.  

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