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The reason your description is one-click-away is because your linked stylesheets include images that do not use https. Even though the URL in the link itself uses https, the browser security measures extend to the content that the stylesheets bring into your description. Go through your stylesheets and convert all those protocols to https.
However, once you finish that, eBay will not know that you have made any changes. So to force a new evaluation of your listings, you will need to update them with small revision to the description area.
The i-ways tool has found an empty link in your promo gallery. It's not clear that an empty link violates the sandbox rules or eBay rules in any way, but you might want to remove the gallery links that you don't populate.
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To me that looks like a false positive. Perhaps @sandyoutlet could report it to i-ways for clarification.
@ladyxl2 wrote:Some listings that have only text, mostly clothing or accessories, describing color or measurements, have had this “see full item description” button. How does simple text qualify as “unsecure”?
Can you offer an example listing?
In many cases, the "unsecure" elements can not be seen, but can still affect the page. And some sellers have removed text or visible content but forgot to remove the underlying codes. Those underlying codes might be benign, but eBay's filters can't tell the difference.
eBay pulls a short description summary to display as a preview to mobile shoppers and to display in other shopping and search venues like google and facebook. We are now seeing it used for a few months on desktop views while sellers work on securing the embedded content in their listings.
@sabershores.treasures wrote:I AT LEAST WANT THE OPTION TO CHOOSE WHETHER OR NOT I WANT EBAY TO AUTOMAGICALLY CREATE ME A SHORT DESCRIPTION FROM PULLING FRAGMENTS OF SENTENCES FROM MY FULL TEMPLATE OR NOT!!!!
eBay provided that option to sellers more than a year ago (in their Spring 2016 announcement). They gave us "Mobile Summary tags" to be added to the description HTML.
http://pages.ebay.com/sell/itemdescription/customizeyoursummary.html
<div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Product">
<span property="description">
... a plain paragraph of descriptive text goes here...
</span>
</div>
eBay can easily pull a description from short plain-text listings, but eBay's bots are not smart enough to find the right words in large or complex HTML templates like yours, so this solution was developed for sellers in that situation.
The plain text description enclosed within those tags will be displayed in your full description and will be extracted as your summary for the other pages and shopping venues where it is used.
For designer-types, the summary can be wrapped in outer tags that are styled. While eBay does allow bullets within the summary, testing has shown that browser editing can clobber the codes, so the safest recommendation is to use one paragraph of text with no formatting tags. Further testing has shown that if any disallowed HTML is included in the summary, eBay will fail to use the content, displaying a blank summary.
