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wickmesh · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 9:30 am Post subject: "Click this link to access"

Hi Nev,

More ebay changes? Sad

Listing titles are now being prefixed with the above ("Click this link to access") in sieve results. It disappears in the watchlist - I'm mainly searching ebay.co.uk but it may be a worldwide thing.

Thanks
Andrew

rbryson · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 1:07 pm Post subject: Unnecessary text

I am getting the "Click this link to access" same prefix to all listings and find it particularly annoying. It is my hope it can be removed soon. It is obvious that the link can be accessed by a click for the auction listings.
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rbryson · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 1:10 pm Post subject:

On a related note - I don't understand how such a change can show up in Auction Sieve without an update being run and loaded????
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wickmesh · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 1:41 pm Post subject:

Hi RBryson,

As the risk of pre-empting Nev, it will almost certainly be an ebay change. AS knows where on the page to find the text it displays to the end user. If ebay change what text is in that location, AS knows no better (until Nev fixes it!) and displays what ebay have put there...

Andrew

rbryson · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 1:46 pm Post subject:

Andrew - I appreciate your comment.

I thought the same thing - that eBay had changed something. I went to eBay directly and did not see the phrase on the listings there.

I guess it is my hope that no matter how this phrase has shown up that Nev will eliminate it.
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chamalscuro · AuctionSieve guru Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 118

Just noticed this change this morning. Yeah, really annoying.

nev · Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:44 am Post subject:

Thanks for the heads-up guys.
New beta is out with a fix!

nev · Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:47 am Post subject:

And yeah, eBay made a change.

If you go to eBay and hover your mouse over the link to an item in the search results, you'll see it pop up with "Click this link to access ...."

chamalscuro · AuctionSieve guru Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 118

Wonderful!

wickmesh · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 10:47 am Post subject:

Hi Nev,

Unfortunately the beta does not fix the bug entirely. Click this link to access has gone, but...

I assume you are using inverted commas somewhere to detect the end of a string... Thus listings with inverted commas in the title get their title truncated.

e.g.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321259255763
listing title shows up as 18

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261338001650
listing title shows up as 13.8

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271330003095
listing title shows up completely blank

Any chance the next beta could look at the german site issues as well please? Very Happy

Kind Regards
Andrew

wickmesh · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:49 am Post subject:

Unfortunately other (related?) issues with the beta too.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231103212592
comes up in the sieve results as
<span class="new">Newly listed</span>"Top Gear" 9780563539193, HardCover, BRAND NEW

I'm guessing either an inverted commas issue, or something to do with the Newly listed tag.

plexiprs · AuctionSieve regular Joined: 30 Jun 2010 Posts: 15

Just installed most recent version 2.6.5 on Mac Mavericks ...... Click This Link To Access still starts every entry .....

chamalscuro · AuctionSieve guru Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 118

"Click this link to access" is back

wickmesh · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 5:47 am Post subject:

Seconded, it's back again Sad

wickmesh · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:56 pm Post subject:

Spreading worldwide. From German now "Zum Anzeigen Link anklicken"...