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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?

Since eBay mobile app does not support 3rd party input why bother ???



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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?

Many of my listings have pictures which I uploaded to my web site and I have set up URL pointers to them in the Item Description. Now EBay is flagging them because they are afraid of something, I don't know what.. Before I get wound up, does Ebay have any workaround for this, or do I have to delete all my photos and start all over again?

Anyone know a macro or method to transfer photos from my website so Ebay's lockbox?

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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?


@hawgryders wrote:

Since eBay mobile app does not support 3rd party input why bother ???


I don't understand your point. You;re saying all the people who use ENay only use I-phones? 

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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?

FYI: most buyers, myself included, never go into descriptions to see pictures --- the eBay hosted pictures load quickly, do not include cookies, and are easy to click through

 

The description is for words ...



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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?

Not sure if you can just use https instead of http, put a certificate on your server and open port 443 to allow the https to go through.

 

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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?


@weyland_pubs wrote:

@hawgryders wrote:

Since eBay mobile app does not support 3rd party input why bother ???


I don't understand your point. You;re saying the only people who use ENay only use I-phones? 


Probably close to 70% are on mobile devices ...

 



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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?


@hawgryders wrote:

FYI: most buyers, myself included, never go into descriptions to see pictures --- the eBay hosted pictures load quickly, do not include cookies, and are easy to click through

 

The description is for words ...


FYI - I would never use an ebay app.

 

And sometimes 12 photos isn't enough.

 

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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?


@hawgryders wrote:

FYI: most buyers, myself included, never go into descriptions to see pictures --- the eBay hosted pictures load quickly, do not include cookies, and are easy to click through

 

The description is for words ...


I can understand that if you;re buying a cheap Chinese $1 item. If you;lre buying something valuable, you don;t just jump into it, or maybve you do

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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?


@hawgryders wrote:

@weyland_pubs wrote:

@hawgryders wrote:

Since eBay mobile app does not support 3rd party input why bother ???


I don't understand your point. You;re saying the only people who use ENay only use I-phones? 


Probably close to 70% are on mobile devices ...

 


Source?

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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?


@weyland_pubs wrote:

@hawgryders wrote:

@weyland_pubs wrote:

@hawgryders wrote:

Since eBay mobile app does not support 3rd party input why bother ???


I don't understand your point. You;re saying the only people who use ENay only use I-phones? 


Probably close to 70% are on mobile devices ...

 


Source?


Read Social Media --- almost all of them rely excusively on their phones --- beyond that look at the expense eBay is laying out to be "mobile device compliant"

 

I have no stats --- just real time data ...



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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?


@hawgryders wrote:

@weyland_pubs wrote:

@hawgryders wrote:

Since eBay mobile app does not support 3rd party input why bother ???


I don't understand your point. You;re saying the only people who use ENay only use I-phones? 


Probably close to 70% are on mobile devices ...

 


My sales number show about 35% of my sales come from mobile devices. Really depends on what you sell.

 

I host my pictures on my own website. I had to purchase the security certificate and then convert all my listings where http was used to https.  Every scan I have used comes up clean.

 

 

 

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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?


@hawgryders wrote:

@weyland_pubs wrote:

@hawgryders wrote:

@weyland_pubs wrote:

@hawgryders wrote:

Since eBay mobile app does not support 3rd party input why bother ???


I don't understand your point. You;re saying the only people who use ENay only use I-phones? 


Probably close to 70% are on mobile devices ...

 


Source?


Read Social Media --- almost all of them rely excusively on their phones --- beyond that look at the expense eBay is laying out to be "mobile device compliant"

 

I have no stats --- just real time data ...


I don't think a serious buyer will glance at a couple of tiny photos and then decide to buy a $3000 item.

 

There's no reason for Ebay to ban externally hosted pictures. other than Ebay's acute sense of paranoia, that there's a dollar out there that's not theirs. 

 

If Ebay was in reality laying out a "lot of money" to be mobile-compliant, they would have porvided solutions to this **bleep** and not created nightmares for the people they use to RECEIVE a ton of money from. At least they could hire some competent programmers. What a pain in the azz, I have spent 4 days now going through my listings using glitchy tools which DON'T work becuase Ebay has set up so many blocks to PREVENT them from working. 

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Active Content, have to delete all my self-hosted pictures?

Don't blame Ebay, blame Google  http://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-will-begin-marking-http-pages-as-non-secure/

 

Google will soon block non-HTTPS content, and since 50%+ of the web uses Google Chrome as a browser...well, that's a lot of people who will not be able to view Ebay content if it's not https

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@the_fancy_fox wrote:

@hawgryders wrote:

@weyland_pubs wrote:

@hawgryders wrote:

Since eBay mobile app does not support 3rd party input why bother ???


I don't understand your point. You;re saying the only people who use ENay only use I-phones? 


Probably close to 70% are on mobile devices ...

 


My sales number show about 35% of my sales come from mobile devices. Really depends on what you sell.

 

I host my pictures on my own website. I had to purchase the security certificate and then convert all my listings where http was used to https.  Every scan I have used comes up clean.

 

 

 


Thank you! Did you use a macro, some kind of programmning tool to convert "http" text to "https"?

 

What do you recommend, where to buy certificate?

 

How do you know that a sale is coming from mobile buyer?

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