Looking for alternatives to selling on eBay

[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 The forum software is just old and outdated.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.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Leon

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

d310weaver.jpg

Time to buck the downsizing trend...here is Weaver, large scale, different owner. Flaws so blatantly evident even a Mongolian blind mole rat should be able to see them.


Brian (that is, if Mongolian blind mole rats actually exist. And according to the dots placed on the back checklist, the original owner was only 9 cards or so away from a complete D310 set. Quite the accomplishment for the little card destroyer from 110+ years ago)

[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.

[obcbeatle]

Originally Posted by 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...)

Whoa...cool tintype!!

[obcbeatle]

Just following up to thank everyone for their comments/suggestions. Shortly I will try selling a few non-sport items via a private Facebook group. I have never sold via Facebook, so these are my final questions. And feel free to PM me privately since these questions aren't necessarily pre-war baseball related:

1) What 3rd party payment/shipping app. are you using for selling/shipping items on FB? I've been using eBay's built in payment/shipping system for years, so I'm a bit behind the curve. I plan to use Paypal for payments whenever possible, and I do use Venmo when my daughter needs money fast. I'd like to be able to to do invoicing and print labels, like in eBay. So not sure if printing eliminates using an iPhone app (I have an old printer)? I prefer using my laptop for most things.

2) Have you had any luck with DOND (deal or no deal), or just stating the asking price? I see a lot of DOND in Facebook groups, but as a buyer I want to know the asking price. The advantages of using DOND as a seller are obvious. So just wondering if DOND is a waste of time?

Any other advice/comments welcome. Thank you.

Edit: Forgot to ask, is there a specific way to invoice from within Facebook? I can't find it if there is.