Active Content Preview

[stuff4divas]

I've gotten several ebay messages over the last few months stating i have 'active content' on 445 of my listings-

Here's a closer look at your listings that contain active content:  

 445 352053750684, 352038617502, 382056247135, 351990120030, 351990120670, 351990120805, 381978811415, 351990121739, 351990122463, 351665913156 Plug-ins or Flash 445 352053750684, 352038617502, 382056247135, 351990120030, 351990120670, 351990120805, 381978811415, 351990121739, 351990122463, 351665913156

Problem: when i go to any of these listings, I click on the 'preview-end preview' button and it still looks the same!!

[shipscript · Accepted solution]

@stuff4divas

You have a currency converter script at the bottom of your listings. It looks like part of it has been wiped out (possibly the visible part), but the underlying code is still there.

You have some choices here. eBay recommends that you remove the active content because they may, at some future date, block relists of those items. In the short term, since the script does nothing visible, you won't be adversely affected by the June ban.

However, you may want to start on a cleanup path. There are several different posts in this thread that each describes a method (a tutorial) for removal, perhaps one of those methods will work for you. 

http://community.ebay.com/t5/Tools-Apps/Replace-Active-Content-in-your-Listings/m-p/26751476

The script is too large to remove in a single pass in eBay's BEAR (bulk edit and replace) tool, but it can be done in two passes if you break the script in half. You can then process 200 items per pass, so it could take as few as 6 total find/replace runs to remove it all. Then you will have that problem behind you.