"It looks like there's a problem with this listing" ?!

[lazar-srb]

This is the description I put:

"Cover of magazine from Yugoslavia in Cyrillic with some of the most famous actors/actresses of Hollywood:

Greta Garbo,Charlie Chaplin,Marx brothers,Ingrid Bergman,Ginger Rogers...

Magazine is from 1989 - on 50 years from what's considered most outstanding year in Hollywood - 1939.

Some of the best movies of all time were filmed in that year:Gone With the Wind,The Wizard Of Oz,Babes In Arms,Ninotchka,The Women,Goodbye Mr. Chips,Mr. Smith Goes to Washington...

Details (articles,comics):

Since you're getting the whole magazine,you're getting other stuff inside too:

Cover with many famous Hollywood stars (see cover) - picture 1

Camel Trophy 1989,through Amazon (on 2 pages) - picture 2

Michael Jackson's Dirty Diana lyrics - picture 7

The most expensive hotel at the time Nova Park,Paris - picture 8

New movies at the time,with picture of Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito ("Twins") - picture 9

+ comics: Secret of the great pyramid (picture 5),He Man and Masters of the universe (picture 6),Mickey Mouse (last picture)...

Condition:

Magazine is used/has signs of reading,some scratches here and there,but generally in good condition.

Cover page has some minor scratches and is a bit creased in bottom left corner (picture no. 2) and on the back of the magazine (last sheet).All sheets present,without tearing."

And,when I try to relist it it shows me this error:

It looks like there's a problem with this listing.

• It looks like your listing contains a reference to another site. For example, you may be trying to compare prices or mention where this item was purchased. Referencing other sites where items can be purchased, even if you don’t link directly to them, isn’t permitted. Please remove the reference from your listing.{e56127-975535x}

The thing is - I already have listed it (it didn't sell),so I tried to relist it and then this is shown.

Does anyone have idea what's the problem?I'm not referring to any other place where I bought it (I bought it in the local store,almost 30 years ago;I don't know if they even work anymore) or anything similar.And I can't figure out anything resonably.

[nowthatsjustducky · Accepted solution]

I would put good money on the word Amazon being the word that is triggering eBay's braindead bot from their brain damaged programmers.

[coolections]

I would agree it is probably the word Amazon. Try removing that word. Programmers are very smart and not brain dead as some suggest. Some folks seems to think they are smarter than everyone else in the world. The problem is a program sees a single word and flags it, they don't have the ability to read your whole description and determine what the use of the word Amazon is used for.

[lacemaker3]

@lazar-srb

Please disregard my previous answer.

Sorry, I just reread your question and I saw that you had posted the listing before. So I went and found the last posting of it, and scanned it in the bulk scanner tool from ISDNTEK.

http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentSandbox.htm

I didn't find any hidden links or URLs, but I did find a typing mistake that is probably causing the problem.

You should always have a space after the dot (.) at the end of a word. You have two places in this listing where you missed the space, and typed " .All" the first time and "number.Com" the second time. It is probably the 2nd one that is being picked up and preventing you from listing, because ".com" is the most common high-level domain. So this is now being picked up as a link (which is not allowed).

[loveyourimagination49]

Good catch lace!

[lacemaker3]

@loveyourimagination49

Thanks!

[lazar-srb]

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@coolectionswrote:

I would agree it is probably the word Amazon. Try removing that word. Programmers are very smart and not brain dead as some suggest. Some folks seems to think they are smarter than everyone else in the world. The problem is a program sees a single word and flags it, they don't have the ability to read your whole description and determine what the use of the word Amazon is used for.

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Can't believe.

Just because someone mentions the word Amazon and speaks of RIVER (one of the biggest rivers in the world) that it prevents him to list the object?Unbelievable.Unthinkable.Unreasonable.

If that is the case,I dare to say that - in this my specific case - that is SO stupid!

Whoever do that stuff (writes/codes those programs or whatever) should put to MANUALLY check if there's real problem or people write something else then web-site Amazon!

(like word "Amazon" represents only web-site and nothing else on this world)

@lacemaker3: thanks for the idea (by the way,I don't copy from others,I do descriptions myself),I'll try it next time I list thise magazines.I never make space after the dots...as you see,as I'm writing this 🙂 Anyway,I'll let you know the results.

@nowthatsjustducky: thanks.I'll try that also.I''l let you know the results.

[d-k_treasures]

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@lacemaker3wrote:

@lazar-srb

Please disregard my previous answer.

Sorry, I just reread your question and I saw that you had posted the listing before. So I went and found the last posting of it, and scanned it in the bulk scanner tool from ISDNTEK.

http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentSandbox.htm

I didn't find any hidden links or URLs, but I did find a typing mistake that is probably causing the problem.

You should always have a space after the dot (.) at the end of a word. You have two places in this listing where you missed the space, and typed " .All" the first time and "number.Com" the second time. It is probably the 2nd one that is being picked up and preventing you from listing, because ".com" is the most common high-level domain. So this is now being picked up as a link (which is not allowed).

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Wouldn't matter. The spaces are ignored.

[lacemaker3]

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@lazar-srbwrote:
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@lacemaker3: thanks for the idea (by the way,I don't copy from others,I do descriptions myself),I'll try it next time I list thise magazines.I never make space after the dots...as you see,as I'm writing this 🙂 Anyway,I'll let you know the results.

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You should put the spaces in ... it is the correct grammar in English as in many (or most) European languages. There should be a space after a dot (period) or comma in a sentence. It doesn't pay to be lazy.

Obviously, copying from others was not the problem here, as I stated in my second post.

The problem is that, by not including the space you posted a URL. You need to fix that, and get rid of the URL (... number.Com...). Posting URL links is not allowed, whether they are clickable or not.

You will also have to change the mis-typed sentence in all your current listings if you want to relist them.

There is a good chance that "...number. Combined" will not be acceptable either, because the bots tend to ignore spaces when they are screening for prohibited character strings. So you may need to rephrase what you want to say.

[lazar-srb]

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@lacemaker3wrote:

The problem is that, by not including the space you posted a URL. You need to fix that, and get rid of the URL (... number.Com...). Posting URL links is not allowed, whether they are clickable or not.

You will also have to change the mis-typed sentence in all your current listings if you want to relist them.

There is a good chance that "...number. Combined" will not be acceptable either, because the bots tend to ignore spaces when they are screening for prohibited character strings. So you may need to rephrase what you want to say.

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After you wrote this I realized what you're talking about is not solution of my problem.Because that part "...number.Combined..." I have on all my listings and only this one,that I've mentioned here,is the problem.No one else.

So,unfortunatelly,I can tell you that making space between "number" and "combined",also "sheet" and "all" is more likely not to be the solution 😞

I will check if that "Amazon" thing is the problem (still can't believe how stupid that is).And I will report results.

P.S. - I know that after a dot or a coma should come space.I just don't care/worry much about it when I type.That's how I used to.

P.S. 2 - @d-k_treasures you are probably right about what you've said.

EDIT:

But thanks lacemaker3 for the input - maybe it will resolve someone else's problem.

[fuzzymae]

I am getting the same error when I am re-listing my adult coloring book lots.  I have made no changes to the listings, and I have several similar ones.  I even tried to submit a single word description and it would not accept the listing.  I think it must be a books/magazines category problem.  None of my other re-lists had any trouble.

[lazar-srb]

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@fuzzymaewrote:

I think it must be a books/magazines category problem.  None of my other re-lists had any trouble.

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Could be true.

@ all others: those who said that the word "Amazon" was problem - they were right!After I have removed it from description (instead I put "in South America") - listing went fine!

I still can't believe how stupid it is!

That you can't put a word of a world river JUST because there is some other web-site called like that.And very unintelegent - speaking of Amazon as of geographical term.

More over,very unintelegent not to let users know what EXACTLY is the problem.

I would never guess this "solution",as it is so unreasonable to me.

OK,I can understand that eBay have issues with Amazon or whatever.

But then,it should be manually checked if something is wrong with the listing and not just off the bat - forbit it.And even not telling you what is that that they don't like in your listing.You can blow your head off with guessing reasons and try million options to change - JUST because they have some very strange idea of not liking word "Amazon".

Very,very...stupid.

[fuzzymae]

I am bringing this up at the chat this afternoon - how can I change the title of a book?  Amazon Animals is not the same as African Animals - geesh.