- Hi guys, Neil Waterhouse.
In this week's video vlog
I'll show you how and where to quickly get photos
for drop shipping on eBay
and also how to quickly make the photos compatible for eBay.
If anybody new to this channel, my name's Neil Waterhouse
and I've been selling an eBay for 23 years
and I'm also the author of "eBay business from home".
So, let's launch straight into it.
One of the big advantage of drop shipping is that
you never have to physically see touch
or ship the products that you sell.
And you normally don't need to take photos
of the products that you sell either.
For this reason, most eBay drop ship sellers
don't take their own photos.
They use the photos from their suppliers, competitors
and or they find more online.
But the problem is often those photos are the wrong format
or the wrong size for eBay.
Let me show you how to quickly get around these problems
and also how to quickly find more images.
Let's use this lamp set from Costco as an example.
The first thing to do is click on the photo
to make it large.
Sometimes you'll need to click
more than once to make the photo large.
Then once you have clicked on the photo to make it large,
right click using Google Chrome
and select "save image as", and then "save".
If you're not using Google Chrome as you web browser
you can download Google Chrome for free.
Now, notice when the photo is saved
the file type was .JFIF
which is not compatible with eBay.
eBay only allows photos with file types
JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, or BMP.
How about converting to other file types?
Like from this JFIF image to JPEG is not a problem.
There are many ways to do this.
Here is one way.
Get away you just saved that file.
Mouse over it, right click
and select "open with", and then select "Paint".
Microsoft Paint comes for free with every Windows computer
or if you don't have Windows,
the MAC equivalent is called Paint Brush.
Now, two things we can do here with Paint.
The first is that you can resize the image
to whatever size you want
and you do that by clicking the resize button
up at the top left and then select "pixels".
And then you can select any size you wish.
For eBay, eBay requires images a minimum of 500 pixels
but preferably a minimum of 1600 that's 1,600 pixels
on the longest side.
So that buyers can zoom in.
Once you've resized the image, if resizing was required
the next step is to save it
and to do that go to file the top left,
then scroll down to "save as"
and then select JPEG.
And now Paint will save the image
as an eBay compatible JPEG file.
Note also that they're also free.
JFIF to JPEG converters out there like Convertio.
However often they limit you to how many images
you can convert until you upgrade to a paid server.
So if you're just starting out
you might just want to start with something like Paint.
Now with a program like Paint there's no limits,
to find other converters just google JFIF to JPEG.
The next thing you can do with Google is check to see
if there are any more similar images.
To do that, go to Google
and search for Google image search
and then click on Images - Google.
And this will take you to Google Images
and then make sure you save this as a favorite.
From Google Images click on "search by image"
then upload an image.
For this demonstration I'ma use the same image
as I used a moment ago
and now Google will show me everywhere
that identical image is showing.
This can be a very fast way to find more images
that are different resolutions.
Of course, in making this video, I have to say
always check with the owner of the photo
to make sure that you're allowed to use it.
If you want more detail about building
a full time drop ship business from scratch and from home
I'll put a link on the screen
and below to a previous week's video showing
how to make a thousand dollars profit per week
drop shipping on eBay.
If you have any questions
please leave it in the comment section below.
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Until next week.
Stay safe, less more, sell more.
This is Neil Waterhouse.