Update listings to conform to new security blah blah. What????

[angry_chihuahua]

Ebay sent me a message to update some of my listings to conform to the new security requirements, etc. so viewers are not directed to go off the site.....???  I have about six listings and for the life of me, I do not see any way that my listing is violating anything.  I have no phone numbers, links, or anything.  What the heck do they mean?  Is someone at Ebay not doing anything so to keep them busy they send out this kind of stuff???  I see nothing I can change to "conform". 

[gwzcomps]

Do you have any external links or custom HTML? I didn't see anything obvious in the handful of your listings I looked through.

[ukfan9]

No I do not. I am at a loss.

[ukfan9]

174070670950

174067603899

174070673703

Here are three of them. See anything?

[gwzcomps]

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@ukfan9 wrote:

174070670950

174067603899

174070673703

Here are three of them. See anything?

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I wonder if it is due the lack of item specifics?  On the first and last item number if I were to guess.

[eleanor*rigby]

@angry_chihuahua 

If you have copy/pasted anything from another source rather than typing it in yourself, it could contain hidden active content.

I used this tool to scan the listings for eBay username "angry_chihuahua," and it identified 14 listings with active content or non-eBay links. You'll want to research those listings further. I just glanced at the output report.

https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentScanner.htm

[eleanor*rigby]

All three of the item numbers you've provided are on the list of 14 identified by the scan . . .

[mcdougle4248]

@angry_chihuahua 

Try this link https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentScanner.htm  to scan your listings for active content and links issues.  

[eleanor*rigby]

@mcdougle4248 

Yeah. I think that's covered upthread.  

[mcdougle4248]

@eleanor*rigby 

Oops, sorry!  

[eleanor*rigby]

@mcdougle4248 

No worries. At least we both offered the same solution! I just hope the OP comes back to the thread and uses that tool.

From my experience, it happens when people copy/paste text into their listings and don't realize there are hidden links or what have you embedded into the original text. It's easily fixed by deleting the copy/pasted passages and retyping the text . . .

[gwzcomps]

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@eleanor*rigby wrote:

From my experience, it happens when people copy/paste text into their listings and don't realize there are hidden links or what have you embedded into the original text. It's easily fixed by deleting the copy/pasted passages and retyping the text . . .

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Ah ha decided to try to inspect element on the description.  Looks like OP has some Auctiva stuff lingering in the HTML.

[eleanor*rigby]

The website another poster and I provided a link for will identify all of those for any individual listing. There were 70 non-eBay links in one of the OP's listings . . .

There are several different scans and tools on that website to help identify and eliminate active content/non-eBay links, etc., for sellers.

[slippinjimmy]

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@eleanor*rigby wrote:

@mcdougle4248 

No worries. At least we both offered the same solution! I just hope the OP comes back to the thread and uses that tool.

From my experience, it happens when people copy/paste text into their listings and don't realize there are hidden links or what have you embedded into the original text. It's easily fixed by deleting the copy/pasted passages and retyping the text . . .

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Even easier it to paste the text that you have copied into Notepad and then copy from there to eBay. Simply pasting to Notepad will remove ALL html coding without the need to retype.

[angry_chihuahua]

So it must be that Auctiva scrolling thing, but I do have that on all my listings and there were only six that Ebay mentioned in the email.  Thank you all for your insight.