Hiya everyone. I have been selling childrens clothing bundles for some time now and rather successfully i might add. Every time i put one of my bundles on ebay i always get asked HOW DO YOU DO THAT WITH YOUR PHOTOS !!
Have you ever wondered how people can have 30 or 40 photographs on their auction when ebay only allows you to load up 12 ??? and also how on earth do people get pictures inbetween the wording.
WELL HERE IS THE SECRET!
If you have a large amount of baby clothes to get rid of and you want to sell them all in one go...get the most money for your items this way.....
1st. People like to buy named brands like Next, Mothercare, MOnsoon and such, Supermarket brands don't tend to sell as they are very cheap to start with unless they are brand new of course.
2nd. If you have a good selection of clothes then you need to get them all nice and clean and give them all a good iron.
3rd. Put them all into outfits or little sets and get 1 or 2 really good photos of each outfit....natural daylight shows of the items best....photos taken with a flash in the evening tend to be rather dark and a bit blurred so not a good idea.
4th. Once you have taken all your photos you will need to set them to the desired size that you want to see them in your listing and also so they don't take up all your storage space. I use ADOBE PHOTOSHOP for shrinking all my photos with a quality rating of 4/10 which seems to be good enough...jpeg is the best format, but if you don't have anything like this don't worry as you can pick different set photo sizes on the ebay page when you are uploading your pickies and it will sort it out for you.
5th. You need to sign up to a good "picture manager tool" for storing all your photos. I have signed up to the ebays picture manager (can be found in ebays home page) and i take out the minimum storage capacity of 50mb. It costs 4.99 a month but worth it as it doesn't cost anything for putting all your photos on your auction....will explain this more below.
6th. Once you have signed up to your "picture managing tool" you then need to upload all your photos into it. I normally have about 30 photos per auction so have lots of different named files so i know where they are going....its simple, just click on this bit where it says "ADD PICTURE" and follow the easy steps....and hey presto !!
7th. You can now start to write your auction......1st is a nice bold title with a good description of what you are selling like "THIS AUCTION IS FOR A BIG BUNDLE OF BABY BOYS CLOTHES AGED 6-12 MONTHS - BRANDS INCLUDE BLAH BLAH BLAH"
Then you can start adding your photos. On the auction selling site (the bit where you write your stuff)you will see a little camera picture icon in the tool bar at the top (near the middle of it). Click on this icon and you should find your photosthere---if not justclick on the ADD PICTURE bit and find them in your computer. Once you have them,just click on which one you want and it will appear in the section you are writing in.
Your photo should then appear on your selling page and you can then write some text underneath it, on top of it or anywhere you want to.......keep doing this process until you have all your outfits and photos listed......WRITE TEXT - ADD PHOTO - WRITE TEXT etc....
8th. Once your auction page is complete just fill in the other stuff like add a gallery photo of one of the better outfits and don't forget the pretty borders you can add for 0.07p to jazz it up a bit.
9th. You are now ready to sell it and good luck.
You will notice that you haven't been charged anything extra for adding all those photos into your listing, so if you have loads of bundles and other bits and bobs to get rid of, this is a great way of doing it, as ebay normally charge 0.12 for every photograph added after the 1st one and it only lets you have a maximum of 12 photos so not much good if you have 30 is it.
I only pay 4.99 a month to ebays picture manager and have had about 500 photos going in one month, so you can imagine how much money i have saved. You can cancel the service anytime you want so you could just take it out for one month - get rid of your items and then cancel it if you wished.
Unfortunately i haven't found a way of doing this for free yet, but i am sure there must be some free photo housing sights out there....but ebays version is very easy to use and i am no computer buff....found this all out myself, so am spreading my knowledge onto you guys....hope it helps you out....
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