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I could just scream. Actually I did that already, along with sending a whatever they call it to eBay questioning why they did it. According to the e-mail I received, I had the following:
Your listing(s) contained the following information:
"Contains a link to baconbuttie.co.uk within the source code of the listing"
Mind you, this is not a viewable link within the auction itself, just within the "watch this item" tracking source code. Now, I've been using this same script for 3-4 months and never had a warning or an auction ended. But I took advantage of eBay's 50% off collectibles promotion and spent HOURS working up my auctions and wake up to having all but a few closed.
Why couldn't they give me the courtesy of a 24 hour warning to fix the problem if there truly was one instead of yanking these off into never never land.
So, a warning to any of you that use the Watch script - make sure you're using the latest version (2.1.20 9-6-03).
Jolly Girl
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I never use stuff like this for just this reason....
we had a gallery dispaying a few pictures of our other auctions way back before galleries were cool, and ebay shut down our auctions for key word spamming even though the text was part of the jpeg and not searchable....back then ebay didn't really know what was searchable, so we have never added much for script or html decorations, call me paranoid,
sorry this happened to you.
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jolly girl,
well that s*cks http://community.here.com/infopop/em...icon_frown.gif
I thought I saw on the ebay outlook board that bacon buttie was having trouble with ebay, don't remember the details.
I've thought of using the gallery script someone posted on the ebay stores board I think it was, will have to make sure there are no links even in the code, wow.
The seller Melbas*treasures uses a script that I've thought about looking at before and I think it must be legal as she's been using it for at least a year or so now,
Mel-
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I e-mailed Baconbuttie right away and it seems that he is on their hit list. He said that I either got turned in by a troll or eBay used the weekend to go searching codes for violations. Anybody else get hit?
I did check and they refunded all my fees. Only problem is that I now can't take advantage of the half off listing fees and some of those listings were only going to sell for 99¢ which is why I chose that time to list them. So I guess they just won't get any of those fees back from me.
Jolly Girl
My SYI Auctions
Cross Stitch Only Auctions
My Club99 Stuff