Before I go further into the do’s and don’ts of picture taking, I first must make sure that all readers are aware of ebay’s picture manager photo hosting subscription service. My personal opinion is that ebay does little to promote this option-they make more money if the average seller pays per photo. By subscribing to the service you pay a flat fee and can put up to 12 photos per auction, instead of the one free photo and paying per each for additional photos.
The basic subscription fee is currently $9.99 per month with 50 MB of storage space. This is more than adequate space for the part time seller. If you determine that you will have at least 10-20 auctions in a given month it will more than pay for itself. You want as many photos as possible in your auction. More photos will earn you more money-people like to see what they are buying.
Tracy, thanks for comment and the offer to help. We have dabbled a bit in ebay-mainly my wife (who stays at home and homeschools the kids). I’m sure as we go, we’ll be looking more and more to things like that. I’ll subscribe to your feed so we’ll remember to send questions your way!