Hi Cindy, I've just returned from visiting one of your item listings, 390127136204. If it is representative of all your listings you have absolutely nothing to worry about: 1. eBay will automatically migrate all pictures hosted with Picture Manager to eBay Picture Services provided they are being used in item listings. The possible exception is those that are displayed in the body of item descriptions (see 3 below). 2. 390127136204 is only using one picture hosted with Picture Manager. All such listings would not incur any additional cost as a result of switching over to eBay Picture Services because eBay hosts one picture free per listing regardless. 3. The picture shown in the body of the body of 390127136204 is in the same picture set as the one being shown in the eBay location at the top left of the page so it would remain hosted with eBay for as long as the item remains active. That relationship can be determined by examining the URL for each. The URL for the one displaying in eBay's location is: http://i20.ebayimg.com/05/i/001/82/ae/e2be_2.JPG the one you are displaying in within the body of the item description is: http://i20.ebayimg.com/05/i/001/82/ae/e2be_1_b.JPG Notice that the URLs are the same except for portion following the underscores _. That identifies them as belonging to the same picture set. The only way you could have pictures stop showing is if you have used pictures from picture manager for display within the body of item descriptions that are not also displaying in the eBay portion of the item page. That's pretty unusual and you would probably be aware of having done so (if you have). Otherwise, the only other concern is cost. shipscripts suggestion to upgrade to a premium store would be a wise choice for you. My guess is you already are at that level. I hope this helps, Rob

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Help, How do I find a 3rd party pictuer hosting program? I found and tried 1 Active ( something like that and it was not compatable with AOL, I have spent 100's of hrs reading and calling e-bay but I am still completely lost, this is such a nightmare, I just don't know what to do or were to go, can someone please help me. I have a store with about 900 items in it and 100's of other items to list. My packing sold items and new listings are all falling behind while I try to figure out what to do

Hi Sue,

I'm sorry to hear you've received conflicting information about the shutdown of Picture Manager. I'll forward your report to someone who can investigate why you were unable to get answers to your questions.

Here are answers:

(1) All your pictures, regardless of type of listing, will migrate to standard eBay picture hosting when your subscription ends. They will be available at the same URLs as now for at least 100 days from that date. Those that are used in the eBay managed picture slots in the listing (the ones that display at the top left of the listing page) will have their lifetime re-extended again afterward if the listing is used for relist, sell similar, or any other action that reuses the original listing. The extension is to 90 days after the scheduled end of the most recently created item. That's the way eBay picture host works for all uploaded listing pictures.

(2) If you are a US registered seller and have a Premium or Anchor Store, all 12 pictures and Picture Pack (includes Supersize/Zoom) are free for all your listings on the US eBay site.

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kaboomtoys, eBay does NOT charge for any pictures appearing within your item description that are hosted elsewhere. And eBay has only ONE free picture slot for self-hosted pictures (those you host on Photobucket), so there is no opportunity to pay for extra photos as you would when using eBay hosting.

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To repeat what Rob said, "eBay Picture Services" is not "Picture Manager" and eBay Picture Services is NOT going away.

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Does this retirement of Ebay picture service apply to everyone or just stores. I do not have a store but use the download photos, directly from my computer, to the SYI form. Do I need to find a third party host?

I just discovered eBay has changed the contents of their FAQ here: http://pages.ebay.com/picture_manager/faq.html#4 Back in May it had this content: "Starting in mid-June, 2009, Premium and Anchor stores will qualify for free additional eBay Picture Services pictures, as well as free Picture Pack for most items listed to Premium and Anchor Stores (Excludes Motors Vehicle categories, as well as items listed on non-participating sites)." Now it has this content: "Premium and Anchor stores qualify for free additional eBay Picture Services pictures, as well as free Picture Pack for most items listed to Premium and Anchor Stores.* *Excludes Motors Vehicle categories, as well as items listed on non-participating sites." As it reads now it would appear to already be in effect. There is no future tense to the statement. Perhaps a Premium Store owner can confirm for us. Rob

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If you have a premium store account, all of your eBay-hosted photos will be free - so check out the cost of a premium store when evaluating the cost of picture hosting. shipscript - I know eBay announced that the free hosting arrangement for premium store owners would coming to pass in July(?) but I have not seen confirmation that it has or will yet. Have you? Thanks, Rob

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YES!! some help please.... first...do i understand correctly...after pictmgr is gone, 1 free pict then 12 for $1??? so for 300 listings recurring fees monthly = THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR PICTURES to list my store items (plus of course the .03-.10 per actual item)..PLEASE tell me i'm wrong.. second...where IS pictmgr server?? uploaded few days ago, hasn't worked since. have not figured out how to zip and all yet, thought 'extended til jan2010' MEANT extended, not turned off but will still show up until then. : ( VERY confused, not an html guru, somewhat intelligent however, PLEASE HELP!!!!

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Any update here as to whats going on with picture hosting? - I dont get it? - ebay is telling us to use third party companies for listing? im going to have to use vendio, channeladvisor etc to list an item?

I see that Picture mgr will be available until jan 1 /2010 ???????????? Is this true?