Easy way to fix the File Exchange and HTTPS problem

[blueeyeswdcards]

I use File Exchange and Excel/MySQL to create listings and handle inventory. Now Ebay is claiming my listing are not secure. Turns out its the File Exchange Logo ebay tacks on to my listings. After a call to Customer service I learned you can do this to edit/fix all your listings at once. 

1. Go to Bulk Edit all of your listings from the Active Listings Page.

2. Click on Edit Fields

3. Choose Edit Description

4. At the top there is an option for Find/Replace

5. Just replace HTTP:   with HTTPS:    And all your listings are fixed in one shot.

Hope this saves as much time for you as it did me.

Scooterdogfl

[dollybeauty]

@blueeyeswdcards

You can also substitute <center> with <center style=display:none>

That will disappear the FileExchange logo. (You still need to change the http to https).

(courtesy of Shipscript).

[blueeyeswdcards]

Thanks!! Another good thing to know. I read some posts by Shipscript. He sure knows what's going on.

I need to bug him with how to make my listings look great on phones!?! 

But I could be beyond help.

Scooterdog

[pocomocomputing]

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@dollybeauty wrote:

@blueeyeswdcards

You can also substitute <center> with <center style=display:none>

That will disappear the FileExchange logo. (You still need to change the http to https).

(courtesy of Shipscript).

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I used the display:none trick years ago (2009) to turn off the Selling Manager Pro logo inserted automatically when using SMP listing templates. I just hated the logo at the bottom of my listings and figured it out on my own doing some research on HTML back then.

Off topic, funny story just came to mind.

Way back in 2009 I just had started selling on eBay and I was trying to figure out HTML and making a listing template. I had been using Free Auctiva for a couple of months and their templates and listing system. Then Auctiva decided to charge for their free services because eBay changes the way third party tools like Auctiva got paid by eBay for referrals and needed to make up the lost money from eBay.

I wanted to make my own listing template so I was doing Internet searches on HTML and eBay and templates. Found lots of web sites and eBay guides and pages. I came across shipscript's About Me page with all her free tools and templates.

But the link I found to her About Me page was to eBay.ie Ireland. All About Me pages could be accessed from any eBay site but search brought up Ireland eBay site first for some reason.  I posted in the eBay forums here in USA and in Canada about the great web page in Ireland with free tools and templates for eBay. I thought for weeks that shipscript was Irish and lived in Ireland because I found her About Me page on eBay.ie Ireland. LOL.

What an eBay newbie I was back then. Soon I discovered the old eBay.com USA Photos & HTML forum where shipscript and others hung out helping others. I learned a lot by reading that forum and asking all kinds of oddball coding questions which shipscript was always willing (and able) to answer.

@shipscript  You might like my silly story of thinking you were Irish. I do not think I ever PMed you that story.

[blueeyeswdcards]

I like your stroy. I called Shipscript a Him when it is actually a Her.  So I'm guilty of making assumptions myself. 

Another tool I tried. Ebay has this link to test your listings for phones. 

http://www.ebay.com/tools/sell/mobile-friendly-test

My Deck listing looked great on the screen they showed me. The link recommended I had to put this line of code in my listing....

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

Unfortunately my listing still looks terrible on my phone in portrait. If I turn the phone to Landscape it looks a lot better.  I really don't know how to fix that yet. I have a bunch of tables but I have the size in CSS as Pixels. That could be the issue.  I am rather clueless on HTML so I'll have my work cut out for me. I spend most of my time coding and no time on selling. Not a good way to go for making $. DOH