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sin-n-dex · ‎03-12-2020

Some of the people I buy stamps from list several photos embedded in the description field, but I thought no outside links were allowed.

How is this done?

I bought three stamp albums two weeks ago from someone who was liquidating some vintage items. The albums were poorly represented, and I had no idea what I was getting. I decided if I liked them I was going to keep them for myself.

Well they arrived today. Two of them are marvelous and I'm definitely transferring the stamps to my collection, but the third album is specialized in US stamps and it's not something I have interest in. It looks like a really good collection from 1860 to 1940, but I'm not going to be able to recover my money with 12 pictures, that won't do it justice.

As far as sourcing stuff goes, I got an excellent deal on these with some stamps I've never even seen before... and I bought a lot of albums this year. If I could sell the USA album as an album with stamps to get back the $100 I spent (which seems doable based on other people's solds), that would be great.

Any help with the multiple pictures part would be appreciated.

C.

lacemaker3 · ‎03-12-2020

Hi @sin-n-dex, I'm going to reach out to @shipscript, who I think would be able to help you with this. Very knowledgable responder, who knows everything there is to know about making listings compliant with the active-content policy, including the best way to embed photos.

ittybitnot · ‎03-12-2020

Being "old school" we all had to do that before there were eBay "pics" or when ebay used to charge a fee per picture.

You have to "host" the photos online in a place other than ebay and use the html version to include the links in your description. There is a code, but I forget it now started with img src=URL of your Photo.jpg bracketed with these < > You can look at the "page view" of a listing that has them and likely find the exact code.

I used to use a simple wysiwyg (what you see is what your get) freeware program Kompozer to make the listing, and just drop the completed "html" or "page view" into the listing box on the sell form.

oaklandmaryland · ‎03-12-2020

you could move to a 3rd party listing venue like sellersourcebook. Costs me $9 monthly but you can add as many photos as you like, stores all listings and photos forever (Ebay only keeps 90 days), even if you erase something you can find it and put back on the site, has beautiful borders to enhance the listing and more advantages.

sin-n-dex · ‎03-17-2020

@ittybitnot wrote:
Being "old school" we all had to do that before there were eBay "pics" or when ebay used to charge a fee per picture.

You have to "host" the photos online in a place other than ebay and use the html version to include the links in your description. There is a code, but I forget it now started with img src=URL of your Photo.jpg bracketed with these < > You can look at the "page view" of a listing that has them and likely find the exact code.

I used to use a simple wysiwyg (what you see is what your get) freeware program Kompozer to make the listing, and just drop the completed "html" or "page view" into the listing box on the sell form.

This will work, I just didn't know it was allowed. I used to write HTML in old school days 20 years ago before Javascript was a big thing. I'm rusty, but I think I can publish some photos.

Thank you.

C.