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Does any put their description on one picture?
 

Does anyone know if it raises a red fag with ebay if you put your listing description in a big picture and then upload the single picture as your description?

Since the listings for stealth accounts are supposed to be completely different, I thought I could put my whole description(text and photos) in one big picture(pdf converted to jpeg), and then strip it of any metadata, so that the ebay bots don't recognize it. I can then put in a different watermark for each stealth account so the picture is slightly different.

As sneaky as ebay is, I doubt they have the computing power to OCR scan every image on the site. Or do they?

Re: Does any put their description on one picture?
 

What is the purpose of this?
You are selling VERO items that do not want Ebay to find out?

Well, this way not even your potential customers will find your items searching for a text string in title+description.
And what do you write in the title text box?

Quite useless I guess.

Re: Does any put their description on one picture?
 

Just takes one manual review for your account to run into problems.

How are you customers going to find your items?

Re: Does any put their description on one picture?
 

Well as long as I stay under the radar I'm hoping to avoid a manual review.

I don't think most people take the time to click the "search description box". However, if I did feel like I was missing out on customers, I could add a few keyword-heavy sentences below the picture that I could change from listing to to listing.

However the main description of my product I don't want to have to change from listing to listing because I've put a lot of thought into it and it presents my product in a clear, organized, and detailed way.

I'm guess I'm asking if the ebay bots have an ideal type of listing in mind that has a certain balance of pictures and words and if they search for listings that are outside this ideal balance.

Re: Does any put their description on one picture?
 

Then dont use ebay.

At any time, any account can get reviewed manually.

So many issues flag accounts and reviews follow.

Learn now to avoid making issues.

Learn to protect new stealth accounts or just repeat what caused your suspensions in the first instance.

:nono::nono:

Re: Does any put their description on one picture?
 

Sounds like Foo-foo items.

Re: Does any put their description on one picture?
 

I never thought of this. This actually is kind of genius, personally. I think you could do this and mix it up with some text and you should be good. Heck, this would save a lottttt of time when it came to accounts and listing.

Re: Does any put their description on one picture?
 

There is no genius in here and you are not saving any time... unless you are manually writing each and every item description instead of copy/paste from a text file.
As already explained above, doing so you will run into problems with EB and customers will not find the items they are looking for when searching for "text" description.

Re: Does any put their description on one picture?
 

Its not genius...

Its an unwanted risk and attention to your account(s) and against ebays policy.

Unless you do not care about the account, then its just another hassle that you place upon yourself. :spy:

Re: Does any put their description on one picture?
 

I've done this before. Meh. Keywords are not searchable, you get less buyers.