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"Years ago" means the template is no longer mobile friendly, but your template is a simple one that can be replaced going forward.
The photos at the top of the listing are not easily copied because eBay covers the image with the magnifier screen. In some cases, you can snag the image before the magnifier appears, but only if you have a slow computer. After the magnifier overlay appears, click the image to open the photo gallery overlay. You should be able to pick up the photo URL from that overlay.
Alternatively, either of these two programs will pick up the images and URLs from an active listing:
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ShowLargestListingPhoto.htm
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/CaptureThumbsFromListing.htm
However, there is really no need to wait until you list the item to get that image URL. As soon as you upload the photos in the listing creation screen, they are assigned URLs. Thus, you can copy back the image that displays in the listing editor. Depending on the browser, you may have different levels of success with copying the big picture or the thumbnail, and with drag/drop versus copy paste versus URL reconstruction.
Depending on which version of the image you are able to copy from the editing screen, you may need to alter the image size by changing the image suffix, which can be done on the HTML view of the description editor or can be done in a browser window if you preview the photo in a separater window or tab.
eBay's Photo Sizes:
eBay's newest photos end with something like "/s-l400.jpg", where "s" might stand for "size" and lowercase "L" might stand for "longest" side (think size-longest), and then the actual size is displayed as a number, like 400. Thus, you can choose one of eBay's standard sizes instead of 400 to display the photo. The standard sizes are 80, 96, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800, 1000, 1600, with a lot of other specialty sizes along the way. The suffix can be "jpg", "png", or "gif" and eBay will make the conversion on the fly. I prefer to standardize with "jpg". Everything beyond the "jpg" is unneeded.
The old picture format ends with something like "_0.JPG", where the number after the underscore is a code for size. Some of the older codes are:
_39 = 32 pixels
_33 = 48 pixels
_14 = 64 pixels
_0 = 96 pixels
_2 = 200 pixels
_35 = 300 pixels
_1 = 400 pixels
_12 = 500 pixels
_58 = 640 pixels
_3 = 800 pixels
_59 = 960 pixels
_57 = 1600 pixels or max size
_10 = 1600 pixels or max upload size for dynamic images (internal use)
Both the old and new naming formats are still in use on new listings.
You can use ebay's bulk editor to quickly make your existing listings mobile friendly and can bulk revise at least 200 items at a time this way.
On your "Active listings" screen in Seller Hub, checkmark all of your listings on the page and click the "Edit" option. That will open eBay's Bulk Edit and Relist (BEAR) tool. [figure 1]
Again checkmark all listings that appear on the BEAR tool
editor. [figure 2]
Open the "Edit Fields" menu directly above your BEAR list, where you can select the "Item Description" for editing. [figure 3]
That will bring you to the screen where you can bulk find/replace.
[figure 4]
Put this in the "find" field
<table
Put this in the "replace" field
<style>
img {max-width:400px; max-height:400px; width:auto; height:auto;}
table {width:100%; max-width:800px;}
</style>
<table Back out of all of the screens using "submit" and "save" on each one as appropriate.
The new code will add a stylesheet to the top of your listing, just ahead of your table code. The styles will allow the template to reflow and will allow the image to resize to fit a phone device.
For all new listings, just add the style block to the top of the template.
Figure 1: Your screen may differ slightly. Click the "edit" button after selecting all items.
Figure 2. eBay's BEAR tool.
Figure 3.
Figure 4.
If you wan't to remove content, you would leave the second box empty as shown in this figure, but in your case you will want to add the new stylesheet in the second box.
