eBay listing help

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Well, I was hoping to have several listings up at eBay to start tomorrow evening before going to bed, but... I got all the way to the end before the final submission and I was asked if I wanted to see what it will look like again. I looked and I'm so glad I did because it was SO MUCH BIGGER than the first preview and it looks awful!!! Argggggg!!!
How is it that when you initially enter your text - html et al - the preview shows one thing and the final preview shows another.
What am I doing wrong? I feel like such a dope!

Your help, as always, will be very much appreciated.

Deborah
 
Not sure what happened but maybe you forgot to close off a html tag somewhere in your description? I know sometimes I forget to close off the bracket > when I do the html to make things bold and then everything ends up being bold! :D

I personally use Ebay's Turbo Lister so I can make my listings well in advance and submit them all at once. You can save and check them at your own leisure so you don't have to go all through the Ebay sell form only to get through to the end and find out there is a problem! :)

Lei
 
It's the overall listing. The first preview everything was fine - not that it will end up being my final format (I'm new to html, photography...) down the road, but I was happy with it for a beginning. Once satisfied with the first preveiw, I continued along until the end and then it asks again if you would like to preview again - I did and the point size jumped by a good four points (I have a printing background from way back; so perhaps point size in computer speak is pica, I'm not sure) - not bold, just much bigger.

Thanks for the Turbo Lister tip Lei, but I don't think I have enough sales for that yet. I will check into it though.

I'm going to go and try again.

Deborah
 
Now I remember - I'm unable to download because I have a Mac. Drat!

Deborah
 
The print in that little html editor is always bigger. Go by the number or size of font listed in the little drop down menu, not how it looks to the eye.

I have used inkfrog over turbo lister and that has worked pretty well for me
 
Again, thanks Chris!!! I'm off to check out inkfrog. Nothing came out the way I expected on the weekend and I was unable to get anything up on ebay last night. I'm also checking Vendio. Has anyone one had any experience with them?

Deborah
 
Deborah, I would go ahead & submit a listing if you have everything else the way you want it, and see how it looks when it's actually live! If you're using the ebay sell form, the default font sizes, if you don't spec them yourself in your description, should look OK when you're done. When I spec type sizes (with a type background myself, I know it's hard to get used to specing in html vs. standard pt sizes!!!) in body copy & heds, I use font size 4, BF, for heds, and 3 for body copy (I believe 3 is the default size). Personally I use bold in my descriptive body copy and regular in my boilerplate, but that's just preference. As for turbo lister, I use it sometimes, but I didn't, and wouldn't, attempt it till I was comfortable using the standard online sell form!

I also used to use a service called Prosperpoint for photo hosting & listing creation, and I loved it. It's very easy and the photos look much better than eBay's photo service. Plus you can create the whole listing in Prosperpoint and upload to eBay. Very easy to make changes in the preview as well. But big problem with that is it's a pay-for-service hosting, and can get expensive. But it was a superb tool to use as I got started in eBay, and if you're not doing huge volumes right away, I'd try it. You can get a good feel for HTML using this, too!
 
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