bugring ebay

Don't scrap it! I'd buy it but family (inc. twins) and a mortgage mean I haven't got any money :-(

Eddie

On or around Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:51:47 +0000 (UTC), Simon Isaacs enlightened us thusly:

well... how far short of the reserve is it?

You might be able to do a deal with the high bidder - that's what I did with mine. Contacted the seller, and split the difference between his reserve and my bid.

Depends if he really wants it.

no offence intended with this - but it got some decent bids, which implies that your reserve is too high for ebay.

From your comments about weighing it in, i was expecting bids of £50. If you really want to get rid of it then accept less money for it!

On or around Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:02:49 +0000 (GMT), snipped-for-privacy@zhochaka.org.uk ("David G. Bell") enlightened us thusly:

I'll repeat my mantra here for web-use pictures...

crop the picture, then resize the result 'til it fits in an 800x600 window, then save as jpeg with compression set to produce an output file about

IME, a decent set of 800x600-is pictures, say about 6 or 8, showing any major defects and also showing the plus points, works about right. Personally, ICBA with listings a mile-an-a-half long with about 47 pictures, half of which just look like a slightly different angle.

The other thing that puts me off is 2000x1500 sort of size pictures. My browser doesn't re-scale automatically, so to see all the picture I have to piss around, and when there are a lot of pictures ICBA. And i run a fiarly high resolution of 1280x960. Yer typical standard flat-screen is 1024x768 these days, and that, in an app with borders and toolbars and so forth, doesn't even give you a complete 800x600 window, often, so putting up pictures much bigger than that is a waste of time.