How to add pictures on eBay listings for free!

When adding pictures to your eBay listing, eBay offers the first picture for free, but any additional pictures after the first one is $0.15 each. You are also limited to 12 pictures, which should be enough in most cases, but sometimes you need more.

.. but don’t worry, there is a way to put pictures on your eBay listing for free, and you can put as many pictures as you want. You can put whatever size you want as well, and not have to worry about eBay resizing or compressing the images so you end up with lower quality images.

Just follow the steps below:

1. Sign up for a FREE account at Photobucket (www.photobucket.com).
2. Once you have your user and password, log in to your Photobucket account and upload your pictures. There should be a fairly large button once you log in to your account that says “Upload images & videos.” Click on this button, and select all the images that you would like to upload. You can select multiple pictures to upload by pressing and holding the CTRL button on your keyboard while you’re clicking with the mouse. I usually put all of the pictures that I want to upload on my desktop so I can find them easily when uploading.
3. Once the pictures have been uploaded, Photobucket will ask you if you want to add titles, descriptions, etc. for the pictures that you have just uploaded. Ignore all this stuff, and just click on the Save & Share Now! button.
   After you click on the Save & Share Now!” button, you will see all of the pictures that you just uploaded. Each picture will have a Direct Link under it. Open up a blank Notepad in Windows, or whatever operating system you use, and copy and paste these “direct links” to in Notepad. One link/URL per line.
4. Once you have all the links/URLs for the all the pictures, copy the following code and replace the URL_GOES_HERE text with the URL for each picture:

   <img src=”URL_GOES_HERE”>

5. In the previous two codes, include the quotes. The links should look like this once you’re done:

   <img src=”http://img.photobucket.com/albums/…picture.jpg”>

6. Do not close the Notepad window after you finish, leave it open. You’ll need it again later.
7. Now, go start creating your eBay for sale listing. When you get to the pictures section, upload the best picture you have. This will be the picture that will show up in the eBay search results so you want the picture that best represents or shows off your item.
8. The next section of the eBay listing form should be the “Describe the item you’re selling” section. Enter the item description in this section as you normally would (under the "Standard" tab), but wherever you want to put the pictures, type PICS_GO_HERE (..or whatever you want. This will simply act as a place holder.)
9. When you’re done with the item description and ready to add the pictures as your final step, click on the HTML tab. You should see a bunch of mumbo jumbo if you’re not familiar with HTML. Click anywhere in the box with all the HTML stuff, and hit CTRL + F on your keyboard. That's the CTRL key AND the F key. You should see a search box appear on your browser. Now, search for PICS_GO_HERE or whatever you typed earlier as your placeholder, and it should find the PICS_GO_HERE text within all that mess and highlight it.
10. Go back to your Notepad window or open it up again if you saved and closed it, and copy (highlight the link then hit CTRL + C or right-click and click Copy) the link/code for the first picture that you would to add.
11. Go back to the eBay listing form page, and replace the PICS_GO_HERE text with the first link/code that we just copied by deleting the PICS_GO_HERE text and pasting the code for the picture (CTRL + V or right-click with mouse then click Paste). If you want to add a second picture, just copy and paste the code/link for the second picture from the Notepad window, and paste it to the eBay listing form just like the first picture.
12. After you finish adding the pictures, click on the Standard tab and you should see your pictures, but you will see them all in one line. If you have big pictures or if you have a lot of them, they will go horizontally across your browser. You can easily fix this by clicking right after picture, and pressing ENTER on your keyboard. This will put the next picture onto a new line. You can add spaces between pictures by again hitting ENTER again. Do the same for all the pictures.
13. Done!

I know this whole thing might sound complicated, but it’s not. It should be basic computer stuff for most of you. If it’s not, then it’s time to learn.

Have fun!

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