bookmarks for items viewed

[skylane42]

I used to click on an item and it would highlight and stay that way.  I could go back the next day and still see that I viewed the item.  Now it seems that after I exit ebay those go away and appear like the not viewed items.  How can I get that back?  I am using Chrome.  I check my cookie setting and they should be correct.  Other sites react correctly and mark the viewed items or threads.  So it looks like it is just a Ebay setting issue.  Any Help?

[gelert5]

Phew! I thought that I was the only one experienceing this issue.
Glad that I found this thread...
Yup - this issue seems to have started happening at the beginning of October, and it is mighty annoying!
I'm not going to modify DoNotTrackMe (aka Blur), as I'm quite happy to remain relatively anonymous to anonymous tracking algorithms!
Looking forward to a fix, either from eBay or A.N. Other source... 🙂

[gelert5]

One interesting issue with this 'new technology':
Emails sent by eBay 'Latest from your Saved Sellers' contain absolutely NO pictures.

This would be - obviously - because any links in those emails have now been rendered obsolete whenever a new item is added, not just by the Seller, but by anybody to that set of 'grouped items'.

e.g. Seller 'X' has added some items, which would appear in a 'Marillion' search.
A list of Seller X's new items appear in my inbox, some days later.
Meanwhile, other sellers have added items to 'Marillion'.
Thus rendering the hyperlinks to Seller X's items - both pictures AND titles - to become 'broken'.

That's rather shafted 'Saved Sellers' being able to advertise their products in a 'Mail Out'.

However, the links to 'See All Items' for each Saved Seller is at least working - for the moment.

[breslau-militaria]

Bumping this thread, because this issue bothers me very much... It occurs on ebay.de since around July. I will be very happy when it gets fixed!

[pottyperson]

I phoned customer services, who were very attentive and undertook to escalate the issue; nothing more heard. I referred it on an eBay web form and got an immediate acknowledgement; nothing more heard. I hoped for a response from eBay on this thread; nothing more heard.

My dealings with eBay over the years relating to live business issues have been positive. General enquiries like this, though, appear to get little or no attention and their customer services in this respect are poor indeed. That's evidenced by the increasing difficulty in raising such issues - no way to email, no more web chat, nothing on the website, even the web form I used recently seems to have disappeared. It now comes down telephone, which means follow-up is difficult, or this forum, which they can ignore at will. That says it all about their attitude to customers.

[watrwest]

An inelegant work around to this problem.

It appears that the "rk:" insertion occurs only on URLs
appearing on the the first page of search results
no matter what the "items per page" is set to.

So, if you set items per page to 25,

the 26th item (#1 on page 2) loses the "rk:"
and it and all subsequent item URLs become static and
show the visited link color no matter how many new items

are added at the front end.

If you set your "ipg:" value to 25 and click on the first result ON PAGE 2
the visited link color sticks the next time you run the search.

Yes, it does involve moving though more pages
but the item count will be the same
and it is a work around.

[gelert5]

Cool hack!

But... but... why is this 'hack' required in the first instance?

Answers on a postcard to the usual address...

[berserkerplanet]

>>So, if you set items per page to 25, the 26th item (#1 on page 2) loses the "rk:"

Interesting. Will have to look at this in more detail when I revisit this issue.

[gelert5]

This 'Hack' still doesn't help the 'News from your Saved Sellers' issue that I outlined earlier.
I've just received 'that' email and I went to view the 'Sellers' items' - only to find that previously-viewed items were no longer 'purple'....
This is a 'First World' issue - agreed.
But it's an issue nonetheless.

[berserkerplanet]

>>This is a 'First World' issue - agreed.

First world issues are still annoying though - that's why I have 1000's of lines of code and CSS fixing the little things that grind my gears

Still ruminating on this visited issue, but the more I see numerous paths to listings mentioned (email links, sold pages, search results, etc), the less likely it looks that it is something that can be worked around or mitigated without someone either creating an addon (if even possible given security permissions, etc) or compiling a custom Firefox browser version (or whatever browser) with a configurable history functionality of some sort. Something along the lines of a browser settings toggle that allows history matching to ignore a ? delimiter and anything that comes after in a URL to permit any base URL to count as a match, or in an addon, that or even a full website specific history matching ruleset system.

I don't do Firefox addons, other than simple legacy addons converted from GreaseMonkey scripts that will not work in Firefox Quantum (and maybe not in FF versions newer than FF31 that I do a lot of my work in), and I'm not certain a GreaseMonkey script could even attain sufficient privileges or get access to history functionality in even FF31.

Additionally, it isn't enough of a "grinds my gears" issue to prompt me to try at the moment. (that and the fact that if it did work, only a total of 2 other people might use the code).

[skylane42]

OK watrwest how do I 

If you set your "ipg:" value to 25 and click on the first result ON PAGE 2
the visited link color sticks the next time you run the search.

[watrwest]

All I know is FireFox so I will have to walk through that,
with any luck Chrome or Safari may be similar.

All this is most efficient for searches

where the total results are more than 2000.
Below that it's not worth the effort.

Assuming you have your searches bookmarked and saved in your browser:

Go to your bookmark file and find your first search or category browse.
In the case below it is a category browse but this will work for a search as well.

If your URL was generated by ebay it  will look different

than my hacked URL above.

In any case, Click into the Location Box and move through it
looking for the " &_ipg= "   arguement
and change the ipg value to 25
       (It may be easier to Copy & Paste the URL into a text editor
       make the ipg change then copy & paste  
       the new search URL back into the Location Box)

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I have discovered that you don't actually have to do the page 2 trick.

Just open the first item on page 1 of the results list in a new tab.
Go to the URL box at the top of your browser ....

In this case:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1960s-Dolphs-Indexed-Street-Map-of-MONTGOMERY-ALABAMA-MONTGOMERY-COUNTY/264...

Move to the end of the URL

and delete the " :rk:1:p f: 0" at the end

    (note the leading colon).
Still in the URL line hit enter to reload with the shortened URL.
Your browser history will now contain both the original dynamic URL

and the new static URL

The static will show the visited color for the life of the item sale.

I hope all this helps.

[watrwest]

I don't know what's going on the the smiley face in the item URL above.

It is supposed to be a colon and a lower case p.

[eburtonlab]

@watrwest

I don't know what's going on the the smiley face in the item URL above.

It is supposed to be a colon and a lower case p.

I believe for each user there is an option in the community settings: preferences: display regarding emoticons and smiley faces -- the default is render various combinations of colons and other letters or symbols as smiley faces, but you can set it to "none" to preserve the original text.

Your previous post shows up as intended for me, but for folks using the default setting, they will see a smiley with a tongue sticking out.

[pottyperson]

A helpful suggestion from @watrwest but a tedious way to deal with something that should be just  click away,  and always has been until recently. As already mentioned, I've phoned and messaged eBay directly and have come to zilch. I hoped for the issue to be picked up here but eBay seem to be resolutely playing dumb on it. Why can't they just say either that it's a glitch they're dealing with or that it's deliberate and we have to put up with it?

[mfmtoys]

You are a life-saver. I am lost without the "visited" links color, to tell me where I last looked at an item in a search list. Could you please clarify one thing about your "fix": after STEP #1 (changing 200 to 25), do I immediately hit Enter and run that search again, before proceeding to STEP#2? Thanks again, and Thumbs Up.