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1
- Be brief, but don't leave out any important
details. The listing form covers your snowmobile
year, make, model, & size, price, and
your physical location.
However,
your potential customer is going to want
to know about any maintenance and/or cosmetic
issues there are, if any. Stating the hours
or mileage, if known, is also recommended.
Condition
of the track, skis, upholstry, engine, etc.
is worth mentioning. Is it all stock? Has
it ever been in a collision? Does it need
anything? What questions would you ask if
you were interested in your machine? Save
yourself and your potential customer some
time by listing this information before they
ask for it.
2
- Include a couple of photos. It's a well
known fact that ads with photos will be viewed
before ads without photos.
Please
note that our snowmobile classified ads listing
program will only accept photos that are
a maximum of 200k in file size. Generally,
depending on the image resolution, this yields
a photo about 800 pixels wide. An image this
size will fill most monitor screens and is
plenty large enough to show great detail.
Most
digital cameras, especially newer ones rated
at 3 Mega Pixels and above, process photos
that range from 3000 to 4000 pixels wide
as a default setting (higher resolution).
When viewed at 100% - or with no reduction,
this is the size of a small parking lot and
is not conducent to internet usage and guys
with dialup waiting to see what your sled
looks like.
If
you submit your photos and receive an error,
or your photos look like the red x icon,
you probably need to resize them to be smaller
in order for the system to accept them.
Resizing
your photos for internet usage is an easy
process and your email buddies will appreciate
it too.
Most
digital cameras come with a CD that includes
a graphics program that will resize your
images. If not, the built in Windows Paint
program can resize your photos. Windows 95,
98, ME, 2000, or XP are essentially the same
as follows:
Click
start / programs / accessories / Paint. When
the Paint program opens, click file / open,
then find the file you want to resize and
open it.
Next,
in the menu bar, click image / stretch/scew.
A
dialog box will open. In the stretch part
(top) of the dialog box, insert 50% in both
the horizontal and vertical values. As long
as the same percentage value is used with
both the vertical and horizontal dimensions,
the photo will reduce in size proportionately.
Disregard
the skew part and click 'ok'.
Then
click file / save as, and assign it a new
name or use the default file name. Try submitting
the photo again. If the system still rejects
your photo, it is still too large and you
must resize it again by following the procedure
above.
If
you have any questions or problems, send
us an email and we will be glad to help.
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