Html pic not clickable in Ebay listing

[luxcollectorempire]

Dear all,

I have a problem. I usually use Photobucket to upload pics through html in Ebay listing. When I put the mouse on the pic, it links me to the photobucket site. I would like to know how can I put not clickable Html pics in my listing.

Please help me cause it's really important and I thank all of you in advance. Have a great day!

[extrememobility]

I don`t know why you use photobucket, you can upload directly from your phone or desktop?

[disneyshopper]

I stopped using Photobucket when they started charging $399 a year to use their service.

[luxcollectorempire]

How you can do?

I am saying the pics in the description as html, not the 12 pics allowed in the Ebay Gallery. Please update and thank you again

[berserkerplanet · Accepted solution]

A clickable link like this is not allowed:
<a href="http://s274.photobucket.com/user/1234567/media/gallery/myteapotpic_13.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i274.photobucket.com/albums/xx123/1234567/Misc/myteapotpic_14.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo myteapotpic_14.jpg"/></a>

You can not have a link to a Photobucket html page, a clickable link, or anything but a straight img URL of the form
<img src="https://i274.photobucket.com/user/1234567/media/gallery/myteapotpic_14.jpg"> in the listing description.

You would use the "direct" Photobucket link from your PB page for that.

However, when I tried to grab a "clean" link to just an image in my free PB account, it stuck an ugly PB watermark on it when displayed in the browser.

It may no longer be possible to use a free account at all to externally host images.

[luxcollectorempire]

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@berserkerplanet wrote:
A clickable link like this is not allowed:
<a href="http://s274.photobucket.com/user/1234567/media/gallery/myteapotpic_13.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i274.photobucket.com/albums/xx123/1234567/Misc/myteapotpic_14.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo myteapotpic_14.jpg"/></a>

You can not have a link to a Photobucket html page, a clickable link, or anything but a straight img URL of the form
<img src="https://i274.photobucket.com/user/1234567/media/gallery/myteapotpic_14.jpg"> in the listing description.

You would use the "direct" Photobucket link from your PB page for that.

However, when I tried to grab a "clean" link to just an image in my free PB account, it stuck an ugly PB watermark on it when displayed in the browser.

It may no longer be possible to use a free account at all to externally host images.

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Dear ebayer,

thank you so much. Your solution works perfectly!!! I am so happy for this.

Do you know any "find and replace" text I can use to make a full adjustments to all my listings?

Thank you again for your great help!

[berserkerplanet]

I looked at a couple of listings on this ID you posted with here and it looks like you may have changed them (except I see no revisions, so maybe not)

I'm seeing what are still links, but neutered with no href attribute, and you may slide by that way.

<a  target="_blank"><img src="https://oi1100.photobucket.com/albums/g412/luxuryc/199marian2/
DolceGabbana%20DG/S4/DSC03397.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo DSC03397.jpg"></a>

Plus, I only see 50 listings, so bulk editing isn't super critical.

Post the HTML for something you want to change, and the HTML you want to change it to, and we'll see. (in general the eBay BEAR - Bulk Edit And Replace - tool doesn't work well for this because it can't wildcard to deal with variable content line different href attribs).

One thing I will note is that your listings are far from mobile friendly - those photos are way too big. It takes 60 seconds plus for those 25 plus approx 1620x1080* photos to load and maxes out my 3mbps desktop internet connection. A mobile viewer might be annoyed at the scrolling required, and the data used.

*there's one 7mb 5472x3526px image that didn't load. That's a 20Megapixel image - 10 times to much.

Note that I didn't check your listings on my phone or using an emulator to see what eBay is doing with "mobile friendly" these days - they made some changes recently, but I doubt it fixes that giganto image issue. (And it isn't just mobile - a minute to load a listing page on a desktop DSL connection is far too long.)

Anyway, post some HTML and we can deal with the bulk editing issue.

[luxcollectorempire]

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@berserkerplanet wrote:

I looked at a couple of listings on this ID you posted with here and it looks like you may have changed them (except I see no revisions, so maybe not)

I'm seeing what are still links, but neutered with no href attribute, and you may slide by that way.

<a  target="_blank"><img src="https://oi1100.photobucket.com/albums/g412/luxuryc/199marian2/
DolceGabbana%20DG/S4/DSC03397.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo DSC03397.jpg"></a>

Plus, I only see 50 listings, so bulk editing isn't super critical.

Post the HTML for something you want to change, and the HTML you want to change it to, and we'll see. (in general the eBay BEAR - Bulk Edit And Replace - tool doesn't work well for this because it can't wildcard to deal with variable content line different href attribs).

One thing I will note is that your listings are far from mobile friendly - those photos are way too big. It takes 60 seconds plus for those 25 plus approx 1620x1080* photos to load and maxes out my 3mbps desktop internet connection. A mobile viewer might be annoyed at the scrolling required, and the data used.

*there's one 7mb 5472x3526px image that didn't load. That's a 20Megapixel image - 10 times to much.

Note that I didn't check your listings on my phone or using an emulator to see what eBay is doing with "mobile friendly" these days - they made some changes recently, but I doubt it fixes that giganto image issue. (And it isn't just mobile - a minute to load a listing page on a desktop DSL connection is far too long.)

Anyway, post some HTML and we can deal with the bulk editing issue.

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Dear ebayer,

thank you so much again for your amazing patience and support.

Here two examples of actual html pics:

<a href="https://s1100.photobucket.com/user/luxuryc/media/199marian2/DolceGabbana%20DG/S5/DSC03550.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://oi1100.photobucket.com/albums/g412/luxuryc/199marian2/DolceGabbana%20DG/S5/DSC03550.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo DSC03550.jpg"></a>
<a href="https://s1100.photobucket.com/user/luxuryc/media/199marian2/DolceGabbana%20DG/S5/DSC03569.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://oi1100.photobucket.com/albums/g412/luxuryc/199marian2/DolceGabbana%20DG/S5/DSC03569.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo DSC03569.jpg"></a>

Please let me know if you have any suggestion to modify them massively through the tool "find and replace".

Please also excuse me for my bad English and have a nice day.

[shipscript]

@luxcollectorempire 

Each image and link has a different name, so it would not be possible to use eBay's find/replace tool to remove the links in bulk. 

I scanned your listings with this tool: 

http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentScanner.htm

There are many non-ebay links on the US site, and many on the IT site.

If you click the EXAMINE button on each red row after the above scan has completed, your description will open the Sandbox tool where you can scroll down to the "Filtered" tab to collect the repaired code that you can paste into your description revision.   But that is only if you want to repair them one at a time.

There is also an online tool that will actually remove those links for you in bulk, even though each has a different URL or name, which I would recommend if you had hundreds to repair. Since you only have about 50 to repair, I think you can use another trick:

Use eBay's Bulk Edit and Replace (BEAR) tool (within "seller hub" or within your "all selling" account page).

Checkmark the boxes for all listings. Select Edit (or bulk edit). 

eBay's BEAR tool will open. Checkmark all items again and choose "description" from the edit options. You'll want to bulk edit all descriptions.

In the "Find" box add this term:

href=

and "Replace with":

title=

This will denature or nullify the link without corrupting your codes.

If you have other links in your description HTML, it will change those as well; but  I looked at some of your other listings and saw only Photobucket links, so my guess is that you don't normally add other links.

If you need more help with this, please ask.

[berserkerplanet]

Your English (and politeness) are just fine.

I'll take a look at those a bit later and try to recall/find the details from when many others ran into this a year and more ago.

[berserkerplanet]

Nevermind. Cross post ninja'd