ShipScript has been an eBay Community volunteer since 2003, specializing in HTML, CSS, Scripts, Photos, Active Content, Technical Solutions, and online Seller Tools.
Your other thread has been revived to discuss why eBay is unable to fetch photos from your server. This has been a long-standing problem when using File Exchange and the issue is unchanged since eBay moved to Seller Hub uploads. Slower, or shared, third-party servers simply can't keep up with eBay's high speed requests when large volumes of images are requested.
However, this second problem of the disappearing listings is something that eBay should investigate.
@geonut, twice today, I looked at your listings with two browsers. The item (variation) count was 1443 or 1536 (26 or 27 listings), depending on how many times I refreshed. But once in a while, a refresh would get me 22,344 items (250 listings).
My speculation is that eBay's redundant servers have not all been updated with the same data. Server mismatch is usually the cause of sporadically different data appearing on every reload. Some have 26 listings, some have 27 listings, and only one has the 250 listings.
In order to count the actual number of listings, I changed the page size to 240 and then continually requested page 2 until the 22,344 count displayed 10 items on page 2 (shown below).
https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ssn=geonut&_sop=10&_pgn=2&_skc=240&rt=nc
After trying to change my page settings to get a less cluttered (larger) screenshot than the above, I was stopped in my tracks and could not get past the screen below, even after reloading the page. So that's it for my testing at the moment, until I can clear my browser.
😎Apparently, I'm a power user moving through this website at super-human speed, because the other two reasons absolutely do not apply. I suspect that, as I was clicking the custom settings, the script failed to load as I sped into a reload with a hung script.
@geonut wrote:
Uploading through templates/Reports tools.
On my end, it shows that I have 490 items listed (4 auction and 486 variation BIN listings)...total of 156,000+ items! However, only 26 of those listings show (most without a gallery photo). The others, are not searchable by title or ID number. Yes...I have an item ID number for the other 486 and they said they uploaded successfully and are "active" on my end. But again, not searchable by ANYONE!
So.
1) Why are my auctions not being shown/searchable.
2) Why are the gallery pictures not wanting to load.
- yes, they are of large enough size.
- they are typically the first photo of the variation listing.
- I have checked url's and they show up just fine with link.
- all urls are https://
Gallery picutres not uploading has been an issue since the FE days! Still has not been fixed 5+ years later!!
Thanks @geonut & @shipscript. I'm getting this passed along asap.
Elizabeth,
