Printing Won Auctions

[antiquelorrie]

I have always been able to print an auction I have won including the photos. As of mid-November, the entire My Purchases section is completely different and the previous View Purchased Item choice is gone, which is where I printed my auction.  Does anyone know how to print a won auction including the photos like we could previously? Thank you.

[pocomocomputing]

This direct link to the view where you could print a purchase used to work, last checked a few months ago when someone in the forums had the same issue.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=xxxx

where xxxx is the item number of the listing

Try it and post back if it works or not so anyone reading this topic in the future will know if it still works.

[berserkerplanet]

View Order Details is still available from both the old and new (awful) Purchase History pages, and the bookmarklet to pull up the printable Purchased Item page from the Order Details Page still works.

(remove  X in javascript below to use in bookmarklet - was added due to forum software quirk)

javaXscript:if(location.href.substring(0,42)=='https://vod.ebay.com/vod/FetchOrderDetails')
{window.location.href='http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&view=all'+
window.location.href.match(/\&itemid=[0-9]*[^\&]/i)[0].replace("id","")+
window.location.href.match(/\&transid=[0-9]*[^\&]/i)[0].replace("rans","");}

[antiquelorrie]

Thanks so much for the reply.  I'm sorry but I am not technical and I don't understand what a bookmarklet is or all the Javascript words in the box. In the new Order Details window, the printer friendly button is only some text and not the photos.  Before November 13, 2017, in Purchase History I would click on leave feedback, then put my pointer over the order details link and it would open a new window. I would then click View Purchased Item and the old print window would appear.  Do you have any further information for this non-technical person?  Thanks for your time.

[antiquelorrie]

Thanks so much for the reply. I am non-technical so please bear with me. Do I copy and paste the link you provided somewhere? When I click on it, it is unavailable and I can't figure out how to insert the item number. Thanks for any further help you can provide.

[pocomocomputing]

Click on that link and it will give an error. In your browser address bar at the top of the page, you will see the link above. at the end will be xxxx replace that with the item number of the listing you want to print like you did before.

[berserkerplanet]

Bookmarklets are just active Javascript bookmarks.

1. Create a new bookmark on your browser bookmarks toolbar (that is a place where it is easiest to get at but can be in a bookmarks folder too).

2. Copy and paste the code from the codebox in my post into the location field in the new bookmark.

3. Remove the X from JavaXscript in that code pasted in the location field ( I had to add it to prevent the forum software from mangling the posted code)

4. Name the bookmark something like PrinteBayDetails or whatever you like.
5. Save the new bookmark

Now anytime you are on an item order details page*, when you click on the bookmarklet, it will grab the item identifiers from that page's URL in the address bar, construct a new URL to a purchased item page ( one with the photos), and will load that page. You can print that page by hitting Ctrl-P, by using the print icon on your browsers toolbar, or by using the print command in your browser's menus.

It's basically a way to automate what pocomocomputing was showing you.

* not all eBay order details pages will work with the bookmarklet - it specifically targets ones of the form https://vod.ebay.com/vod/FetchOrderDetails?... which are the ones you get from the purchase history page, and most of the time the one the link on the page you get right after purchase and checkout. Essentially most order detail pages are that type now. If not, bookmarklet does absolutely nothing.

[deel]

Anyone have an update? The URL above, and variations on it like
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=##############&view=all&tid=0
no longer working. I've been printing/saving purchases on eBay for future reference for almost 20 years.

[eburtonlab]

@deel 

Try this link:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/000000000000

Replace the 0s with your item number.

[deel]

Thanks. Turns out that the link I listed above is working, WHEN I filled in the transaction ID .. I did NOT leave as a ) /zero [for most auctions, a few still didn't work, or not even this with this latest link... granted just over 3 months old, but I got the URL I posted to work for listings over 9 months back ... just now... for about 85%+ of my purchases].

Bottom line- Using the URL I posted (provided by others on these groups), but must have transID, and usually, but doesn't always work (and when it didn't work, I noticed other eBay purchase history links for this item also not working....)