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What does all this mean – quite simply,  by default eBay may use one (or more if you are VERY lucky) of your  item images for their Product Catalogue, you can opt out of this if you wish, and a ‘how to’ is explained hereby my friend across the pond and profilific eBay writer Marsha Collier.

Very briefly, an eBays Product Catalogue item is what may be shown to a buyer when search keywords match, they will see an image, generic description, a pick of the top sellers of this item then the same item from  other sellers. IF your image is used, there wil also be a credit link to your eBay My World page.

For me this is a bonus, and I don’t care if eBay is using one of my images to promote other sellers listings of the same item. Yes its my image, I took the trouble photographing the item, carefully editing the image etc but think about it, if you are lucky enough to have your image used, think of the traffic it could generate to your My World page, traffic = potential sales. The chances of getting that much traffic any other way is nigh on impossible (within eBay policy of course).

So, don’t be over protective about your images – they could make you sales you didn’t expect !

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