Is there a trick to see any data on anyone else's post?

[divwido]

I see people reference listings and information.  I have ZIP.  Do I need permission, file a form or what?

[a_c_green · Accepted solution]

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@divwido wrote:

I see people reference listings and information.  I have ZIP.  Do I need permission, file a form or what?

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It's supposedly a bug that Khoros is working on fixing, where they are unable to get the poster's feedback or listing info from eBay.

The workaround that's enabling responders here to talk about a user's feedback or listings is to copy their user ID, jump over to eBay, look up your own feedback, and then paste the user's ID on top of your own in the browser line, in order to bring up their feedback page like you did for yours. You can then click the link to their listings ("View items for sale") or whatever else needs to be done.

Here's the link to your feedback page, for example: 

https://www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/divwido 

To see anyone else's, just replace "divwido" in the line above with the ID of the user you're searching for.

[divwido]

So clever.

[stainlessenginecovers]

or even easier; 

go to ebay

click 'advanced' search

put persons 'ebay' name in (check marking the box down a ways that says "search by seller including....") 

[toysaver]

It's supposedly a bug that Khoros is working on fixing

I'm not buying that.  It' s more likely cheaper to run the community this way.  Avatar images take up space and are not free to store.

[mtgraves7984]

I know there are workarounds, but I'm so not into working that hard for the info. I could be watching TV. 😃

[eleanor*rigby]

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@stainlessenginecovers wrote:

or even easier; 

go to ebay

click 'advanced' search

put persons 'ebay' name in (check marking the box down a ways that says "search by seller including....") 

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LOL. It's not easier, because that search works only if the member id with which a person is posting is a selling account.

I'm posting with a buying account id. Trying to find my info by using a seller search wouldn't get you very far.

[coolections]

There is a trick but a total waste of your valuable time. Unfortunately you cannot help many people if you need that info to give a factual reply. Some mentioned they are working on it but it has been a long time now. Looks like they really do not want people here to help sellers.

[a_c_green]

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@toysaver wrote:

It's supposedly a bug that Khoros is working on fixing

I'm not buying that.  It' s more likely cheaper to run the community this way.  Avatar images take up space and are not free to store.

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I'm not entirely buying it either; hence my use of the word "supposedly." I have read that the apparent cause is due to an Application Programming Interface change on the eBay side that broke the connection from Khoros that does the lookup on the poster's credentials: feedback count, listings and whatever.

How much of that is true, how much is just fingerpointing, I have no idea, but I agree that at minimum, there seems to be a lack of urgency in getting it fixed. (Thumbnail avatar images are not really that costly in terms of storage. You only need one instance of the image stored, and page coding simply points to that image location whenever it's needed for page display.)

Certainly it's like pulling teeth to get a detailed update from anyone, something that becomes more apparent as the days and weeks go by. Communication has long been a weak point of this site.

[bbravo65]

...interesting topic and replies...

...thank you all...

[bigdeals.etc]

I can easily see that you’re a Rockstar though 🤟

What else is there to know?

[eburtonlab]

Another possible workaround or two in this thread:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Workaround-for-not-being-able-to-click-feedback-score-on-forum...

In Chrome or Opera you can actually designate the eBay member feedback lookup as a custom search engine in your browser, then use your browser search field to look up user feedback by pasting the username there and searching.

Firefox has a similar feature you can use by associating a keyword shortcut such as "eu" (for eBay user) with that member feedback lookup field, and then typing or pasting that into the browser address bar. So I can look up your feedback page by entering/pasting eu divwido into my Firefox address bar.

Hopefully Khoros will fix things soon so these sorts of workarounds are no longer necessary.

[downunder-61]

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@mtgraves7984 wrote:

I know there are workarounds, but I'm so not into working that hard for the info. I could be watching TV. 😃

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I have the link supplied in the "Solution" all set and open another tab, so all it takes is for me to enter the member id.

One click to get to my tab, add the id - done - then back to the tab that for the eBay forum

Works on both seller and buyer alike

[eleanor*rigby]

It really does seem like it's just been one crushing blow after another for right about a year now. Although the post I'm thinking of has mysteriously been archived from the Community Platform Feedback board even though it was only a year old, the stated intent was to make the discussion boards a more vibrant, lively place (can't recall exactly how it was worded). Seems the opposite has been the case. 😢

[downunder-61]

If anything, eBay are going to hurt themselves with this, or at least Khoros is going to hurt them.

So many do not know the simple work around, some can't be bothered to use it (and rightly so, we are volunteers and shouldn't spend more time tryng to get info to facilitate an answer) so how soon before quite a few just give up.

eBay actually directs people to this community as a means of Help and Assistance, this needs to be sorted sooner rather than later.

Give Khoros the boot and find a crew that know how to actually navigate and fix these problems they have caused, sure hope they aren't paying Khoros too much!

End rant