posted on June 23, 2001 12:58:31 PM
Hello all,
I had a bunch of auctions end last week. Some things didn't sell, so I want to relist them. I can get to the relisting page and change the description and everything, but when I go to submit that I get the "this page cannot be displayed" message. This has been happening since Thursday. I have not been able to relist a single item.
I'm at my wits end. I'm ready to scream. Anybody know whats up? Is it ebay or me?
posted on June 23, 2001 02:04:06 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.
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 03:03:42 PM
I downloaded the Opera browser for relisting http://www.opera.com and it solved all my relisting problems.
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liquid8ter on eBay
[ edited by revvassago on Jun 23, 2001 03:06 PM ]
posted on June 23, 2001 03:42:20 PM
Depending on what Netscape browser you use, and if you have javascript enabled, or not, the relist feature may, or may not work. On Netscape 4.75 the only way I can relist an item is with JS disabled.
eBay is aware of the problem & after sending a tech the JS error, they have promised me a fix will be in place sometime this week.
posted on June 23, 2001 04:25:53 PMreddeer: eBay has been aware of this problem for a few months now, and refuses to do anything about it. They may have promised a fix this week, but don't hold your breath.
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