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[Reece^B]

Okay well how do I rectify this?

[Simon Lloyd]

you'll need to look at your image delivery mod i think, i believe thats where the problem is, if you want to pm me access i'll take a quick look but i've only got around 15 minutes before i have to get off for a while.

[kh99]

I get the same thing happening. I think there might be some strange characters that vb isn't handling very well. Anyway, I found that if I set "Convert HTML to BB Code" to no and "Allow HTML in Announcements" to yes, then the link works (but there's still one of those A with a circle on top things before the pound sign in the price).

[Simon Lloyd]

It seems that it's something to do with the delivery of the description and pic from ebay, it doesn't seem to be vbulletin at all, i did as kh99 suggests but it didnt change anything, everything else worked except clicking the pic.

[kh99]

With all the playing around I did, I forgot that I also had changed the end of the url to say feedType=atom, so that might have been part of it.

[Reece^B]

So is there a fix?

Thanks fellas!

[kh99]

Well, sort of - I think if you change to feedType=atom (at the end of the url), set "Convert HTML to BB Code" to no, and "Allow HTML in Announcements" to yes, that seemed to fix the links for me.

[Reece^B]

humm none of the images display when I select this.

[kh99]

Hmm...try changing feed:description (in the template) to feed:content:encoded. Unfortunately I deleted the feed I created yesterday so I'm not sure exactly how I had it.

Edit: OK, it's like this: I used this url:

http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.atom?keyword=%28pitbike%2Cpit+bike%29&categoryId1=9800&sortOrder=BestMatch&programid=15&campaignid=5336923007&toolid=10039&listingType1=All&lgeo=1&descriptionSearch=true&feedType=atom

(I changed the item.rss to item.atom as well as changing it at the end), changed feed:description to feed:content:encoded, and did the other things I mentioned above. To be honest, I don't know if they're all needed or not.

Edit: well, that seems to fix the link if you're posting as announcements, which I thought was what you were using, but I just looked at your site again and it looks like you're posting to a thread. So that means for this fix to work you'd have to enable html in the forum you're posting in, which you normally wouldn't want to do (unless no one else can post there).

Sorry - if I have more time I'll try to look in to it more.