Looking for alternatives to selling on eBay

[obcbeatle]

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

Maybe less noise in the private groups, than public?

Not in my experience. It's the same old things as I described. You just have to answer a very simple question or two ("What is your favorite team?", "What is the third letter in 'baseball'?") and agree to their terms before a moderator accepts you into the fold.

Thank you , I will give this a try , hopefully I can negotiate for shipping items.

[notfast]

A few of us started a vintage non sports card group that has grown to over 2000 people in just a few months.

Mainly focused on vintage non sport cards but postcards/tradecards are included in that.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/824631...767/?ref=share

If you shoot me your name, I’ll make sure you are approved to get in.

Thanks
Matt

[notfast]

Also Tom @ vintangenonsports.com runs a great non sports auction. One coming up in February. Linked at top of each page here on n54.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by notfast

A few of us started a vintage non sports card group that has grown to over 2000 people in just a few months.

I don't understand. What's the attraction of Facebook? Why not just post on vintagenonsports.com?

[notfast]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I don't understand. What's the attraction of Facebook? Why not just post on vintagenonsports.com?

Active users. Ease of private messaging. Ease of posting pics…

[campyfan39]

Agree. I struggle with posting pics on here. Half get rejected and won't load and I don't know why. The ones that do load are often super giant-sized.
It's probably and likely, my fault, yet eBay i just add straight from my phone, and it looks great.

Originally Posted by notfast

Active users. Ease of private messaging. Ease of posting pics…

[rand1com]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

Agree. I struggle with posting pics on here. Half get rejected and won't load and I don't know why. The ones that do load are often super giant-sized.
It's probably and likely, my fault, yet eBay i just add straight from my phone, and it looks great.

I have the same problem on here. Digital pics load some of the time but it is hit or miss for me. I assume it has something to do with the size but my pics are taken exactly the same yet some load and some do not. Obviously, I am a dinosaur technology wise but like you never have any problem posting the same photos that will not load here to Ebay. I have to assume there are size restrictions on here and that slight changes can kick some out while others load fine but that is an unintelligent guess on my part!!! I am just happy to find out that at least one more user has this problem. I assumed it was only me so thanks for insuring I am not alone.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

Agree. I struggle with posting pics on here. Half get rejected and won't load and I don't know why. The ones that do load are often super giant-sized.
It's probably and likely, my fault, yet eBay i just add straight from my phone, and it looks great.

It's not your fault. The forum software is just old and outdated. Updating the site would be a fair amount of work though, and you'd probably have half the users complain even though it could be greatly improved. ImageMagik would solve all the photo uploading & sizing issues here.

[Leon]

Correct. We are on an old version of Vbulletin. The same one as Blowout. The upgrade to the newest version would be some major heavy lifting and probably not worth the sh** to equity ratio.
IF folks don't want to learn how to downsize a photo, or post pics, one of the many other ways on this forum (from a host site) then that is on them.
I am pretty sure we would have a whole new look to the site.
I have never had a problem uploading pics to this site, but then again, I know how to downsize photos. IN today's world if it isn't instant gratification folks have no need for it.

and a card.....looks like a perfect download to me.

Originally Posted by Snowman

It's not your fault. The forum software is just old and outdated. Updating the site would be a fair amount of work though, and you'd probably have half the users complain even though it could be greatly improved. ImageMagik would solve all the photo uploading & sizing issues here.

[Beercan collector]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

Agree. I struggle with posting pics on here. Half get rejected and won't load and I don't know why. The ones that do load are often super giant-sized.
It's probably and likely, my fault, yet eBay i just add straight from my phone, and it looks great.

I don’t know why but if I shrink the borders just a tiny bit - then they’ll load .
Pretty sure it’s me not knowing What I’m doing than it is the website

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Beercan collector

I don’t know why but if I shrink the borders just a tiny bit - then they’ll load .
Pretty sure it’s me not knowing What I’m doing than it is the website

I do something similar sometimes. I will take a pic of the card so it is just a small portion of the picture and then crop it down on my phone to just the card. It is one way of reducing image size so they post.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by campyfan39

Agree. I struggle with posting pics on here. Half get rejected and won't load and I don't know why. The ones that do load are often super giant-sized.
It's probably and likely, my fault, yet eBay i just add straight from my phone, and it looks great.

It is a PIA but I send all photos I post on here from my phone to myself via email. Then on my laptop I resize them and they work great on here. I am sure there is a way to reduce the image size on a phone with an app but I rarely post on here from my phone. On images that won't post on here it is always because they are too big.

I haven't bought or sold much for a while but the $1 auction section is a great place that needs to be used WAY more. I have found the BST section to be an amazing place over my 10+ years on here for buying, selling, and a ton of trading.

[Leon]

100%. This post should be stuck to the top of each page.

Personally, I am on the forum 90% of the time from a laptop pc, from my home office with an external monitor, keyboard and mouse. I don't even try posting pics from my phone (and it's a S23 Galaxy).

A lot of images I post are hosted on my personal website, luckeycards.com.
If they are there I take the url and insert it where you would normally upload a picture. It works perfectly but sometimes I still need to resize them before posting.

When that happens-
I right click on images to save them to "my photos" . Then open them with MS Paint, downsize them appropriately and save. Then I can then upload them onto the forum.
This whole process takes about 2? minutes; less if I've had 2+ cups of coffee.

Nowadays, in the instant gratification environment we are in, anything more than 3 seconds is slow.

That said, anything less than 3 minutes is fast to this dinosaur.

**Young ones don't remember John Spencer's (hi Yoda) first iteration (circa 1997-8?) of this forum. They would go bat-shi$ crazy.

And a tintype...(not many ladies baseball tintypes out there...)

Originally Posted by bnorth

It is a PIA but I send all photos I post on here from my phone to myself via email. Then on my laptop I resize them and they work great on here. I am sure there is a way to reduce the image size on a phone with an app but I rarely post on here from my phone. On images that won't post on here it is always because they are too big.