Help with bulk image upload / image hosting and bulk listing upload

[jackscollects1]

Hi! I sell sports cards with the pick your card/ you pick section. So for each listing there are up to 250 variations and 2 photos for each variation. How do I bulk upload my listings with this many variations and attach 2 pics to each variation? What image hosting does everyone use and is there a simpler way to do this instead of copy and pasting each link one by one. I heard someone once on a podcast say they used macros in excel to easily link their images to listings for bulk upload but I haven’t had any luck figuring this out. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! 

[mcdougle4248]

@jackscollects1 

I don't have an answer for you, however, we are fortunate to have member that most likely can help.

@shipscript can you help the OP?

[shipscript]

To bulk upload photos, you would need an image host so that you can provide the list of URLs. This, of course, means you will still be uploading those images "somewhere".  I have my own website for that purpose, as do many sellers who bulk upload (costs about $100 to $200 per year for cheap web site hosting). Others have reported using google drive and dropbox for small projects (be sure to set photos public).  Most of the free sharing sites, like Flickr and Imgur, will not allow displaying photos on eBay.  Imageshack and Photobucket are pay services that will allow sending photos to eBay.

The spreadsheet method can be use to upload your photo URLs to eBay's File Exchange. You can use that method to bulk create new listings or to bulk edit your existing listings. So, if you used some other method to create your variations, using only a single master photo, you could then edit that listing with a File Exchange upload that contains all the URLs for the variations.

The listing must already be started as a variation listing in order to edit it to add more variations.

Look at the bottom of this tutorial for what the variation portion of listings look like in a File Exchange spreadsheet.

http://shipscript.com/ebayhelp/lister_hub/creating_ebay_variations.htm

Notice that the master record contains all the variation attributes and options in one cell. Then there is a separate line for each variation combination, so you would have 250 lines below the master record.

This variation builder can help put your variation combinations into File Exchange format so that you can add your photo lists using Excel and File Exchange.

https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/VariationBuilder.htm

You could either build your entire listing on eBay and then bulk upload the photos through File Exchange, or you could populate a single variation option on eBay and then create and populate all the other variations through File Exchange.