Create eBay Listings With Artificial Intelligence (AI)!

okay so you're probably going to think this is a terrible idea and honestly you're probably right but I think this could actually work I've been Drop Shipping for about six years now and even though Drop Shipping has proven to be very lucrative there's always been this nagging problem with it you see I'm mostly Drop Shipping from websites like Walmart onto eBay the problem is my listings look exactly the same as every other listing for the same product so of course I always wish there was a way to make my listings look different to make them stand out to make them look special now we do have ways of doing that by changing up the title to make it better but still my images look exactly the same as everyone else's so I would love to find a way to get brand new images for my listings that no one else is using but short of shipping the product to myself and then taking photos of it at my house that was never really possible but now it might be this is mid-journey it's one of the most popular programs available to help you create AI generated art now if you've never used it before at its core it's pretty simple to use it actually integrates directly with Discord which is where you're going to ask it to create images for you so for instance here I asked it to create a photograph of Paul Drop Shipping at 14 000 feet now it doesn't know who Paul is so it's just made up a person that it thinks is Paul or looks like a Paul but it does show them drop shipping at 14 000 feet so you can use this to create images of anything that you want so I think you see where I'm going with this today we're going to see if it's possible and if it's ethical to use mid-journey to create new product images for our eBay listings to start out let's use a very simple example we're going to start with this three shelf bookcase that's available in Walmart that a lot of people drop ship onto eBay now if I go over to Mid journey and just ask it to create a photo of a bookshelf for me it's going to create something that looks like this yes this is a bookshelf but it doesn't look anything like this bookshelf so if we want it to actually create something that looks more like this we got to get specific with it we got to tell it it's a three shelf bookshelf we got to tell its Dimensions we're going to say that's made of rustic oak and what kind of material it's made of that's all the information we have to send to mid-journey now unfortunately unless you're a mid-journey expert or have some experience with it can kind of give you a lot of wacky results if you don't know exactly how to tell it what you want so to help us out with this to make this a lot easier for us we're actually going to have chat GPT help us so you want to start a new chat with chat gbt and tell it the following is a mid-journey Formula give it this formula I'll have this down below and then do you understand the formula it will say yes it does so now if we give it information about this product on Walmart it will create a prompt for us the prompt that we then send to mid-journey so for instance for this one I'm going to copy the title of it I'm going to say the chat gbt create a prompt for paste in the title and then let's give it some more information about this product because the title alone is not enough it just says a three shelf bookshelf with adjustable shelves rustic oak but I also need to give it its Dimensions so let's copy the dimensions which are here so I'll say that is then give it dimensions and what else might be important like the material that's made of so I'll copy that and I'll put that in here as well that's made of and then paste in the material and I think for now that's enough if we don't get the results that we want we can try to get more specific so I'll send that to chat GPT and it's spitting out the prompt for us all right I'll copy that down and I'll come over to Mid Journey and I'll start out with the prompt imagine which is always how you have to start and I'll paste in that text and click enter and we'll just wait a minute okay so these results that we got four different images that we can choose from so if you come back to the actual image of the product on Walmart we see that down here at the bottom there's no sort of gap down here and this one the first one does have a gap so that one's out but the other three look really good to me it really looks a lot similar to this one not perfect though the color is a bit off so now

we're going to try to adjust it try to get that color to match a bit better the dimensions are obviously there because we put in Dimensions it's the right number of shelves as well I mean this alone is pretty good it's just this color is a bit off so let's come down here see if it says more information about the color it says black oak wood grain finish but that's the other maybe it's maybe that is right actually so maybe we gotta throw that in there the black oak wood grain finish let's throw that in there and see if that helps so I'll go ahead and copy the text that we did we'll just modify it a bit this time I'll say imagine throw that in and then copy the wood grain finish even though it's not true oh you know this actually has on okay so we'll throw that one in there it says in with black oak wood grain finish and let's go enter and see what it comes up with all right so here are the newest results these two on the right are Alex they have that Gap at the bottom but these two right here look really good that looks really close to this one right here so I think those two are winner I mean those two are images that we could use as our images on eBay and they would be really close to the one that's being sold right here on Walmart so I'm pretty happy with that but that's a pretty simple item to sell let's actually look at one that's a bit more complicated so if we look at this one right here it's like this wall art of these metal Birds what I found is that these ones just don't tend to do that well when you're trying to remake them on mid-journey unless I guess if you're really good at Mid Journey so let me show you exactly what I mean I'll come over to chat gbt I'll say create a prompt for I'll throw in that title and what other information can we give it does it have like even like the dimensions the size we'll throw that in there as well sized and the color is black right so throw black color so that's the prompt I'll copy that down come over to Mid Journey let's plug it in and these are the results that I got I mean as you see this is nothing like this one at all it's just way off and to get from this to this again it's going to be possible but you have to have a lot deeper understanding of mid-journey and how to get out of it specifically what you want it's gonna be a lot more of an advanced kind of item to make so for that one that's why I say that for these more complicated ones it's just not going to work that well but here's another one that I had made on mid-journey this is the item on Walmart it's this other bookshelf coincidentally and you can see here on mid-journey the one that I actually came up with after a little bit of fiddling around is really good like that is a close match and honestly this Photograph that It produced I think looks so much better than the one given by Walmart it really pops there's great lighting with it great kind of showcasing of how the product can be used and I think this would be a great Main image to use on eBay over the stock one that's given to you by Walmart let's try another one here I want to try this table right here again this is a very generic sort of item nothing too complicated going on so we'll try this one I will go copy the title come over to chatgbt and say create a prompt for there's the title let's throw in some information about the dimensions that is they're the dimensions and anything else here that would be important it has the color already Black Oak four legs obviously for a table is going to have four legs but I think that's probably enough so let's see and it gives a prompt unfortunately it did take out the dimensions which it does sometimes so I'll just add that back in by coming over here to mid-journey saying imagine pasting that and then we'll re-grab the dimensions and throw those in there right here the desk is throw that in there and these are the results that we got now these bottom two I think look excellent the top two obviously don't work because if we come back to Walmart we see the legs look completely different on those ones but

these bottom two these might be the best ones that we've come up with today on mid-journey that is very accurate to what you're getting here now another trick is once you find one that you really like I don't think I really like this one right here number three even number four is good but we'll do number three I can click V3 and then it's going to make that same image again but just like slight variations so that will give us the opportunity to have more photos that we could add to our Ebay listing as long as they do work out good yes the results are I mean actually all these look pretty much the same so I mean you could use these but it's just kind of going to be the same thing so I want to try just a little bit more here because I'm actually having a little bit of fun with this I'm going to capture the original text I'm just going to modify it a little bit so we can get like a different angle on here so the it says right here the photograph is taken at an angle so I want to say the photograph is taken straight on so we can try to get that image instead for that angle instead so this wasn't exactly what I was looking for I wanted something that was more straight on with the table but using that prompt did give me a different angle it kind of went from the other side so I'll take that you know that's something else we could use one of these two to kind of give it a bit of a different angle from the original one and that way we have a whole bunch of different angles of this table that we could use for our Ebay listing now just because this works doesn't mean it's a good idea there's definitely an ethical question here after all we're going to be showing customers images that aren't an exact photo of what they get it's just like a representation of what they're ordering but on the other hand that's exactly what stock images are in the first place so maybe to help us make sense of this let's actually look at eBay's photo policy itself to see if this is allowed so the policy says that the following are not allowed photos that don't accurately represent the item placeholder images that convey messages stock photos when they're used for used damage or defective items so they are allowed for new items photos with borders photos with edit texts and photos with watermarks but that's it and I would actually argue that the mid Journey images we created actually do abide by all of these policies as long as they're made accurately and even though these aren't photographs of the exact item that the customer is buying that's the case for a lot of items sold on eBay that's in fact the point of stock images it shows a sample of the item at its best to try to convince customers to buy that item but what do you think let me know in the comments section down below if you think this is a good idea or a really bad one personally I'm not telling you to do this so don't come after me you get in trouble with eBay for this but honestly I think it's a pretty cool idea foreign