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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?
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
What kind of BS is that!
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
why do you have to link pictures if they allow you to add like 8
They (Craigslist) has been warning of this for about 3 months now George.
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.
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?
If you're no longer allowed to post how you want to, then you better ask for a refund.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeB
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" ; )
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
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.
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.