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Because you have 8000 listings, I recommend that you use eBay's free File Exchange for the bulk revisions. However, File Exchange has a 5000-item daily limit, so it will take a couple of days of smaller batches to revise all of your listings, and then you'll probably have a cleanup batch or two after that.
BULK ACTIVE CONTENT EDITOR
The Bulk Active Content Editor will scan each of your descriptions to remove the non-eBay links and to fix a few other eBay violations that you select. It will save the repaired descriptions to one or more CSV files that you can then submit to eBay's File Exchange in order to update your listings.
The instructions are located here, and I recommend that you read through the instructions to make sure you understand what is needed:
http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContent_support/BulkEditorInstructions.htm
The Active Content Editor tool will use Regex Find/Replace to make complex substitutions in the files it processes. Removing non-eBay links is a function that is already built into the tool, so all you need to do is checkmark the boxes to indicate the type of content you want the tool to remove.
The tool recommends that you test a file of only 3 items from start to end, to make sure you understand how the process works, before trying to revise all 8000 items.
SINGLE DEEP DIVE - ACTIVE CONTENT SANDBOX TOOL
The Sandbox tool provides the same scan, but for one listing at a time, so you can test a few listings to make sure the results are what you want. The deep dive of the sandbox tool lets you examine the flagged elements and decide how you want to revise. But in most cases, using the default checkboxes will produce adequate results.
http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentSandbox.htm
After you enter a single item number into the Sandbox tool and click the SCAN button, you can view your repaired code on the "Filtered" tab using the Popup Preview.
Only you can know how many different ways you created your listings, so select a few representative items and check one of each type in the Sandbox tool. If they look good there, then use the same checkboxes to bulk revise them using the Bulk Active Content Editor. Send the first half of your revisions to File exchange on one day an the other half on another day (due to the 5K upload limit).
HOTLINKING
Your next problem is the plagiarized material taken from a "publicly viewable" site that is not a "public domain" site (unfortunately, many people mistakenly believe that if it is on the Internet, it is free for the taking, when most such content is not). I'm not sure that we can revise the content itself, but you should at least remove the photos. Because your listings are stealing the bandwidth of imdb.com by hotlinking directly to the resources on their website (without permission), you may want to consider removing the images that are hotlinked within the description.
The scan tools do not have a checkbox to remove images, but we can write a custom Regex filter to remove them in both the Sandbox tool and in the Active Content Editor. We can either remove ALL images, or we can remove images hosted on imdb.com
You'll need to respond with some information on the images used in most of your listings (unfortunately, I don't have adequate Internet connection to scan your 8K listings myself). We can then write a filter based on your information. The filter that we write can be pasted into the Sandbox tool for your testing and into the Bulk Active Content Editor so that you can eliminate both the eBay violations and the hotlinking all in one pass.
