Removing Active Content

[silverngold]

When eBay announced Active Content had to be removed from listings by June, I was relieved that this did not apply to me. To my surprise, I just received notice that several listings do contain Javascript or Plug-Ins/Flash.   I've only used eBay to create listings and my listings are as simple as possible so I don't know how these crept in.  When I checked a listing that supposedly has "Flash", I did see a flashing ad that eBay added to the page (gee thanks), but nothing in the listing. I don't know programming and don't know what Javascript looks like or how to locate it to remove it (I thought eBay only uses HTML) . I've read that sometimes punctuation can be mistaken for Javascript so am wondering if this is an error.  If I remove and revise all of these listings, will that eliminate the problem or just repeat it? Can't afford to have an outside service fix this.  Any help greatly appreciated.    

JAVASCRIPT   371447662976, 371635551352, 371635601181, 371635620090, 222033132323, 222033163630, 222035144282, 371875256159, 371800479753, 222362215080 PLUG-INS OR FLASH  371447662976, 222033132323, 222033163630, 222035144282, 371800479753, 222115887594, 371147004946, 371147011551, 371811125510, 221696992518

[labs118]

@silverngold

Use this tool
http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentScanner.htm

It will tell you what is wrong
A very helpful poster shipscript is the very best at all this they have developed many tools & everyone is using this.
If you get stuck I can ask them to pop over to this post & answer if you have a question

[shipscript · Accepted solution]

@silverngold

It looks like some of your listings have an old PageMage script to load a flash player (nothing to do with flashing ads), which was probably intended to help construct your page layout.  It doesn't appear to do anything anymore, but it is still there.

http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentScanner.htm

Fortunately, the scanner shows you have only 17 listings to repair, which you can quickly resolve on your own. After you run the scan, click the EXAMINE button on each of the red rows to open the sandbox scanner. That tool will show you a repaired copy of the description on the "Filtered" tab of the sandbox tool.

Copy that "Filtered" tab code and paste it into the HTML tab of eBay's description editor when you revise your listing.

[silverngold]

All done-thanks! Can't express how grateful I am for your simple instructions that worked beautifully.

[labs118]

@silverngold

Told you shipscript is the very best

[ventura168]

with the listing active, where do I find the html tab on ebay to edit description ?

[labs118]

ebay is holding a special 1 hour chat today to answer questions about the active content
shipscript has started a post

Go to this link if you have questions and can't attend the chat, or to get the link to the chat
which will be at 4PM Pacific Time

http://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Active-Content-staff-chat-Thur-20-Apr-2017-1pm-PT/td-p/26875476

It's everyones chance to get questions answered

[coletta707humboldt]

It's not just you, ebay has rigged the who shopping experience. You can't search for anything anymore and get good results. I've started doing most of my online shopping on Amazon and Aliexpress because I'm so sick of being treated like **bleep** by greedybay. I normally don't side with sellers, but the new F'uped listings have so little detail that everything you buy anymore is a total risk with vertually no real information from the seller. Good luck, I hope it works out for you.... I'm kinda done with the greedy mess ebay has become.  

[coletta707humboldt]

I've never posted here before, but have just learned how GreedyBay sensors what we say and then gives us a tiny window of opportunity to correct it. I feel bad for the honest sellers that get totally F'ed over by GreedyBay.