@pjcdn2005 wrote:
I checked out my listings too and the 'fixer' and it is confusing. The other day I thought I saw how to fix the 'targets' manually but haven't been able to find that post. I'll look again tomorrow.
I'm going to post a link to a .com thread here that explains the target problem better than I can. Shipscript who wrote the post is the one who set up the active content tools and she really knows her stuff. You might want to read the whole thread but post 8 and 9 are about your situation in particular.
http://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Compliance-Active-Content-removal-Setting-CSS/m-p/27060473#M976...
She has quite a few different posts about the active content issue but I've always put off reading them because I get confused lol. I guess I should try to read them now.
I read through that thread and she certainly does explain things well. In short, the instruction I followed was:
"When you run the scan and then click the EXAMINE button on each, the Sandbox tool will open. That tool will generate repaired code that you can paste back into your item description when you revise your item.
So, when the Sandbox tool opens, scroll down and click the "Filtered" tab. When it opens you will see your repaired listing code displayed in that window. At the bottom left of that tab you will see a button to open your item for revision.
When you click that button and eBay's listing form opens, select the HTML tab or HTML view on eBay's editor and delete all the code there. Then copy the code from the Sandbox tool and paste it into the empty eBay HTML box. When you switch back to eBay's standard editing tab, you will see the corrected code and can clean up any left over credits. Then save your listing revision."
I did this for one of my affected listings and I believe it has been corrected; however, this is a tedious task if a person has a lot of listings. I did have another look at the Bulk Editor (the screenshot is in my original post). I left the two checkmarks as is and clicked on Start New Scan. From what I saw at that point, I didn't even attempt to proceed. The instructions were lengthy and complex and there were too many warnings for my liking.
So before I start manually fixing each one of my 283 affected listings (revised number), I have one more question to ask of vintagenorth, who I hope is still following this thread.
My problem seems to be the same as yours -- an incorrect link. You've indicated that you searched for your store name in the HTML code and added "target="_blank" after the store name. I think this would be a quicker resolution than the process I've described above. I don't use Turbo Lister, so in the individual eBay revision page, I clicked on HTML in the description (HTML is something I've never used) and looked for my store name. Well, there are several hundred lines of code and I couldn't find anything resembling my store name. I have the link at the bottom of my listing so that's the area I concentrated on but I couldn't find even one word of my store name. Is there some trick to this or is it simply easier in TL?
A couple of months ago, I thought long and hard about continuing to sell and decided I would. I purchased a lot of new stock and opened a store at the end of April. I spent the whole month of May editing each and every one of my listings -- adding a block of text at the end of the description giving some details about myself and my items and adding a link to my store. I have to admit that I regret it now. To spend another month (a summer month yet) again revising each item has thrown me into a state of depression. I would have been better off without the store and the link which is now causing all these problems and just selling what I had. I was working on the assumption that adding a link to my store was acceptable but adding one to your personal website was not. I didn't know that it would be considered active content.
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