[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by heatherw610

Many of the item links posted today are saying "Invalid or Listing Removed" when in fact its not. Any one else?

Originally Posted by MikeTrin

I found a problem that when people search ebay for item by itemid then post the link here, it errors out when clicked. If they search by item description then post that link for the same item that error-ed out it now works.

Any ideas?

I've been doing some experimenting and discovered a bit of a pattern ....

I've been able to take a post from one forum where the link fails with that message, then put it into another forum and it works fine.

I think there's something about forum permissions and this mod, but I have to look into it further to make sure it's repeatable.

I thought I'd report this here in the meantime, just so if you want to try some experimenting yourself to see if it holds true for you. Try turning on HTML in a non-public "test" forum (only you can see for security), then see if the same link works from there?

Regards,
Badger

Edit:
This link works in a forum that has HTML option turned ON or OFF ... :up:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Enfield-L42A1-Sniper-Rifle-Scope-IWS-Bracket-Mount_W0QQitemZ200432655499QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_D efaultDomain_2?hash=item2eaab79c8b#ht_1300wt_1167

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This link ONLY works in a forum where HTML is turned ON. If it's OFF, which is prudent for all public forums, then the error mentioned saying "Invalid or Listing Removed", when in fact its not.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200432655499&ru=http%3 A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.com%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trks id%3Dp3907.m38.l1313%26_nkw%3D200432655499%26_saca t%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_rdc=1#ht_1300wt_1167

I've tried this test several times with multiple forums, simply turning the forum HTML option ON/OFF and I've obtained consistent results, although I have no idea what's causing it to need HTML ON...