President, VIP Recycling
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Hoping it is just something on my end, but is craigslist.org no longer accepting externally hosted images?
All of my ads consist of very little text, and a big picture advertisement. Been working great, until today. Every single add, the image is not showing?
George Beale - Founder & President - info@viprecyclingjunkremoval.com
VIP Recycling Junk Removal LLC - Premier Scrap Metal, Junk, & Electronic Recyclers!
http://www.viprecyclingjunkremoval.com
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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I think I saw on CL that they weren't allowing those kinds of images on there anymore don't know why but I believe that's the case
President, VIP Recycling
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What kind of BS is that!
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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Haha it doesn't apply to me since I don't have a business yet, you could still put the picture up it just needs a different format I guess
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
why do you have to link pictures if they allow you to add like 8
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They (Craigslist) has been warning of this for about 3 months now George.
Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesaler
Certified Zip-Tie Mechanic
"Give them enough so they can do something with it, but not too much that they won't do nothing."
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Craigslist has always been about local people exchanging goods and services. Most people do not care to see commercial/business posts there. Craigslist has a huge problem with over-posting from businesses. Just using a large picture makes it much easier to post a ton of ads, which is exactly what they are trying to prevent.
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I am not very skilled at CL Adds. I manage to do some postings and manage them from a smart phone. Whatever these types of pics are, I don't think I use them? Or do I?
GREENTRUCK
"CHANGING THE WAY YOU LOOK AT RECYCLING"
If you're no longer allowed to post how you want to, then you better ask for a refund.Originally Posted by GeorgeB
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
To "allow" it, and to "approve" it, are two different things. Fact is, CL never did "approve" of it, but people did it anyway. You might want to recheck the TOS you agreed to before using their site. As with most anything else that gets overly abused, they eventually make it a law, much like speeding. People with no regards for it might get away with it for awhile, but will eventually get caught. Using photo hosting sites might not be as big a deal to them as data mining, such as page hit counters, which also retrieve users IP addresses etc, but I suppose, depending on the level of abuse, they will eventually decide to address it in any way they can.
If you've never visited their Help Desk forum, you've missed a lot of threads there asking "why was I flagged?", and "why is my account locked?", and usually excusing themselves with "but everybody does it!". Often the answer they get isn't what they wanted to hear, usually in the form of "tell that to the judge the next time you get a speeding ticket" ; )
Last edited by Bear; 07-07-2013 at 12:52 PM.
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ebay has stoped allowing them also, now you have to post atleast one picture that is a minimum of 500x500 pixels, and no stock pictures, the picture you post has to be of the item you are selling or the listing will get pulled
I buy and sell all types of scrap and escrap. I buy specialty and hard to sell escrap. I buy resale items. PM me or contact me at jghilino@hotmail.com
I AM ACTIVELY BUYING ESCRAP OF ALL TYPES. BOARDS, RAM, CPUS AND MUCH MORE
President, VIP Recycling
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UPDATE:
Apparently an ad blocker I use in Firefox, was not letting the images to display. I know I had heard Craigslist was thinking of no longer allowing them, which is why I asked.
I am glad that for now, they still are, because Photobucket makes them look a little messed up.
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This basically means that you cannot use Photobucket/tinypic images on craigslist. You can still upload images through craigslist. What ever images you want to upload, right click, save as, and then upload them to Craigslist. I always just used the Craigslist uploader anyways.
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