posted on June 22, 2001 10:41:39 AM
Has anyone experienced problems revising their eBay listings? I've been trying for 3 days now and I finally got 2 to go through, one last night and 1 today. It seems to be intermittent, at best.
posted on June 22, 2001 10:56:09 AM
I've had this problem quite a few times when I use MS Internet Explorer. However, when I use Netscape, I have never had the problem. Give Netscape a try and see how that works for you.
posted on June 22, 2001 11:33:09 PM
I have hit a brickwall at eBay on this issue. The problem I have uncovered is "acceptable" html code. Not bad code, acceptable code and I do use IE5.5. To resolve several eBay related problems I just found and started using w3 Consortium (HTML Standards Committee) program called "tidy.exe". After posting your auction go to the revise page select View>>>Source and run tidy.exe, save the changes and your revising problems are over for that auction.
All this program does is cleanup "acceptable" or sloppy programming. The worse part the code it cleans is not mine but eBays.
posted on June 23, 2001 10:19:41 AM
I had real problems with this until someone recommended using Netscape instead of MS Internet Explorer. Now revisions are accepted first time - this has definitely fixed the problem,
Liz
posted on June 23, 2001 11:22:39 AM
A quick fix for those who are stuck with IE. Make sure you stay on the revise page for 2-3 minutes, before going to the next page, and you shouldn't get an error. I have no idea why this works, but it does. It is a tad bit slow, I admit, but beats not being able to revise. I just edit my auction then go answer an email or something, then come back and click the button. Once I go to the review page I can immediately click submit. I hope that helps some of you.
posted on June 23, 2001 01:57:43 PM
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy
Now I'm no expert with tidy I just found it Thursday. I use NoteTab (another multi-use editor I've used for a NotePad replacement for years) and tidy is part of the Tools menu.
NoteTab Lite is a free download from http://www.notetab.com/ and under its help menu is a simple option to replace the NotePad with NoteTab. Just drop tidy.exe into NoteTab's folder.
Then when you go to 'revise' an auction select from IE5's menu 'View>>>Source' and NoteTab will be launched with the 'revise' page loaded in it. Simply select from NoteTab's menu 'Tools>>>TidyHTML'. After it does it thing you will have an option to have an explanation of the changes, but it does not matter. Just save the changed source code page and proceed on error free.
---- The reason I go though this trouble I cannot tell ** my auction visitors ** to setup their browser first to meet my needs. ----
And the reason I know what I'm talking about I create the auction in Frontpage and upload it to my website UNMODIFIED. All I do for eBay is cut and paste the code between <body>---</body> into eBay. Now what eBay really hates if I'm really lazy I'll cut and paste the whole page into eBay. Thats all my problem they'll claim, except I did it their way first before finding the true problem is 'acceptable' over 'standardized' code.
WHICH CODE DOES YOU CUSTOMER BROWSERS USE?
Another FREE tidy option comes from http://www.chami.com/html-kit. It comes with tidy built-in to a HTML editor. Same menu sequence as NoteTab, but it can be scary for a non-techie.
posted on June 23, 2001 05:16:57 PM
<Make sure you stay on the revise page for 2-3 minutes, before going to the next page, and you shouldn't get an error.>
You know, when I tried revising from a computer with a T1 connection I had no luck but with my computer at home and a 28.8 connection (which meant the revise page was much slower to load) I got it done the first try.
posted on June 23, 2001 05:19:30 PM
download the opera browser http://www.opera.com and you can revise without the error messages. eBay is obviously never going to fix this problem that is months-old now.
