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siliconsam · 08-25-2024

Hi: Perhaps this has been covered. If so, sorry for the repeat. I seem to recall getting assistance in cleaning the HTML but of course eBay never updates their listing tool so it continues to be an issue. Simply put: After multiple edits of the descr...

siliconsam · 12-27-2021

Hi: Using the default eBay listing tool, HTML for the listing description is generated automatically from the plain text. After awhile, this ends up with literally hundreds or thousands of redundant coding blocks like . On a fair size listing the des...

siliconsam · 09-27-2017

Hi: This is more of an FYI than a question unless someone actually knows why it's happening. The description text would be missing and I was getting errors similar to: "The owner of vi.vipr.ebaydesc.com has configured their website improperly. To pro...

siliconsam · 04-28-2017

I sold an item about a month ago to a non-USA buyer. It was lost by USPS at one of the POs in the USA. As soon as I was notified that the item had not been delivered, contacted USPS in an attempt to locate and sent a message to the buyer. After the r...

siliconsam · 08-25-2024

Hi: HeHeHe..... It's only noticeable if the code becomes so large that updating aborts. Otherwise, it would not make its ugly face visible, but might slow down display a bit. ;( It IS still happening but perhaps there is some trigger. But I haven't d...

siliconsam · 04-25-2023

There are a bunch of buttons one can click on one of which is "Shipped" and that will bring back the tracking #s but I haven't found a way to make that a bookmark so the Summary page can be defaulted to have it. --- sam

siliconsam · 12-29-2021

The bottom line seems to be that indeed there are several eBay and non-eBay tools that can be used to strip the extraneous garbage, but eBay should make it easier than pulling teeth to find them. It would be in everyone's interest to clean up the HTM...

siliconsam · 12-28-2021

Thanks for the quick reply. The second method looks promising. I tried it with another listing that had much more garbage and it seemed to do exactly what was needed, even easier than using MSWord. I think I used the right-hand button (with no leaves...

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