“I would stop shooting the phone on a messy desk and start showing it in the hand, screen on, with the charger and case included in the first shot. On Facebook Marketplace, the scroll is brutal, so your first image has to answer what do I get before they ever read the title.”

“I shoot phones against a clean surface near a window, one angle with the screen on showing the actual home screen, another with the camera app open so they see the lens is clean. Buyers scroll past sterile product shots; a real lit screen proves it works and looks less like a scam listing.”

“I built Taco because I got tired of product photos that all looked stamped from the same mold, so I started using Nano Banana Pro and Hailuo 2.3 to turn a single phone click into a composite of angles and a short video for under a dollar. For used phones, I would shoot against a clean background, generate a 5-angle composite, and let the video do the scrolling so the buyer sees every edge without asking.”

“I shoot my own phone listings against a single clean surface with one window light, no flash, and I always include the IMEI screen and a short video of the screen turning on. Buyers message faster when they can see it is actually my phone, not a stock image.”