Edit: Never mind... I had to put code back the way it was as eBay stopped crediting me for click throughs the day I changed the code and added the above two lines as a replacement. As soon as I returned the code back to the original one line, the clicks starting paying again, so I have no idea why this is the case, but others should be careful making the above change.
Ok, we've also got this code running on our site (vb 3.6) and updated it as mentioned above at the beginning of the year. It wasn't clear from your post exactly if your click throughs dropped significant and/or so did your payments.
For us, the click through rates are about the same, payments may be down slightly but that's probably more related to January than anything. I just wanted to have a better idea of exactly what your problems were so that we can be on the lookout for the same thing (and change the code back if needed).
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?
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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?
Many of the item links posted today are saying "Invalid or Listing Removed" when in fact its not. Any one else?
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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:
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.
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...
Is there a working fix for the & problem? I tried to code replacement above (with the 2 lines) and it also appears I stopped getting credited for my clicks as well.
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