Pulling product photos off the web

[Sharyn]

I’m putting this question in the photography section, but I’m really asking about pulling photos off the web. Not sure whether many people here have had need to do this, but I’ll throw the question out.

I am currently helping a widowed neighbor downsize by selling off his wife’s belongings. She was quite the shopper, and much of her purchases were from QVC. Often she would buy something in different colors and sizes to decide what she liked and return the rest. Problem was that the returning part often never happened.

I’m not a big fan of copying another company’s photos in order for me to list on eBay; however, most of these items are no longer being sold. For whatever reason, QVC doesn’t seem to delete pages that are no longer for sale, so many times I can find the product and its photos.

Sometimes I pull the photo down, and it doesn’t meet eBay’s standard of having enough data to show up well. If the webpage has a zoom in function, I can sometimes get a better photo that eBay will accept.

I’ve run into a few items where I cannot get a good enough photo. It looks fine by me on the page, but I get an error from eBay on the photo’s size. The link below is example of one of those pages (you will need to scroll down a bit to get to the photos).

This item is old; looks to be from 2006, but I have the jacket in three different colors, still sealed in plastic, all size 1X. I’d really like to get that product photo, but it is giving me errors. I even snipped it thinking that maybe that would help, but no go. Is it that these photos are so old that they were taken with fewer pixels? Is there any way I can fix the issue?

https://www.qvc.com/Denim-%26-Co-Brushed-Twill-Jacket-with-Printed-Lining.product.A1734.html?productNumber=a1734&sc=ISRC

Appreciate the help!

[Sharyn]

I double checked the link, and the product did not come out. If you type in A1734 into the search field, it should come up for you.

[Sharyn]

Let me try the link again though:

https://www.qvc.com/Denim-%26-Co-Brushed-Twill-Jacket-with-Printed-Lining.product.A1734.html?productNumber=A1734&sc=ISRC

[IndySales]

The image is too small. Upscaling it in some photo editing software should work, although the quality will be less than stellar.

[Retro Treasures WV]

Unless it is showing some feature you can’t show yourself, don’t bother.

I do this for the smartwool socks I have sold – as I can’t exactly open a pair of each kind and put them on to model.

I learned the hard way to never make it the main listing photo – bury any manufacturer photos at the end of your photos.

[Jay]

Agreed. We’ve used some manufacturer photos for things we cant show (because its packaged), but its a dangerous game since QVC could be actively watching listings.

Do these QVC products sell well on eBay? When I look at solds for the Denim & Co, things are selling for under $5. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=%22denim+%26+co%22&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=denim+%26+co&_osacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1

[Sharyn]

Hum, I thought I made sure to subscribe to my own topic. Apparently not.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I’ll try photo editing software and see if it helps. If not, I’ll just move on.

Yes, sometimes I bury the manufacturer photos, but sometimes I use them as the main photo. Maybe not the right thing to do, but, if the item is years old but NWT, I do it anyway. Mostly to save time.

@Jay – You are looking at mostly pre-owned items. When I use Terrapeak to find something closer to this particular jacket, I find that two preowned sold in the past year for $16 and $13. Hopefully this works:

https://www.ebay.com/sh/research?marketplace=EBAY-US&keywords=Denim+Co+Brushed+Twill+Jacket+&dayRange=365&endDate=1659058912536&startDate=1627522912536&categoryId=0&offset=0&limit=50&tabName=SOLD&tz=America%2FNew_York

The ones I have are NWT, size 1X, still sealed in the bag. I’m hoping for around $30 each, and I’m going to put all three in the same listing. I’ve taken photos now of one that was a size XL, and I’ll put that in a separate listing since it was removed from the bag for photos.

Sure, QVC stuff doesn’t sell for huge numbers unless there is a following. Much of the clothes I’m selling for my neighbor are going to Swap.com. I’m not thrilled with Swap, but that is another story.

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