What I don't like about eBid...

[papagran40]

Yup Pinky , owt FUR an easy life.........that is what my great grand daddy vasilly told me...............papa.

[cmjewels925]

Can I have my two pence worth ?.... yes I know I do not bother a lot with listings...yes I am NOT very up on computers....yes I am not a business , yes I just list for a bit of fun and to down size some of my stuff....BUT , a big BUT is....why does a listing need all the characters I think we are talking about here.....just list the stuff so a prospective buyer would read.....this looks like someone is writting a book.....I think if I saw a listing this size , I would just leave it......so as said...right or wrong , list it and forget it............simples .......papa.

You wouldn't see a listing that size - the OP's listings are quite simple. It's just the code that tells the computer what colour the text should be and where on the screen to display it, etc. has become extremely bloated.

The listing Kimbo has used as an example only contains 819 words (and I would want pretty much all of those words if I was buying a laptop) but it uses 33,232 characters to display those words. Of those 33,232 characters, about 10,000 are needed to display the description in its current form and the other 23,000+ are garbage that has been put in by the program (we're assuming MS Word) used to write the listing.

If you press Ctrl+U you'll see the background code for the page and that is what is being discussed, not what is actually showing when viewing a listing.

[gazza]

Descriptions are limited to 500000 bytes, or ~500k. This is a huge allowance that no-one should even really get close to.

If you were told anything about 4000 characters then the support staff member was incorrect.

If the WYSYIWYG editor is not working correctly for you then the Plain HTML Box would suit you better, this does not format your code.

Can you give me a ticket ID where the 4000 characters were mentioned and as always details and specifics of the description you are having trouble using. If warnings are being shown incorrectly it is a bug that we need to fix.

Thanks
Gazza

[madelaine]

Anyone who uses Word to create HTML is asking for trouble! It creates the most bloated code I've ever seen. Frontpage is pretty inelegant but it is FAR less character heavy.

[moonwitch]

.. or for implying some of us (okay me) wouldn't have a clue lol...

I think Kim has been on this forum long enough to know who the numpties are

[billsstamps]

Well, can someone tell me how to use my own webspace to supplement the space available on Ebid.

I can write a frame on www.bhopkinson.co.uk but not sure that Ebid will allow me to have a frameset with one or more frames elsewehere.

[cmjewels925]

Descriptions are limited to 500000 bytes, or ~500k. This is a huge allowance that no-one should even really get close to.

If you were told anything about 4000 characters then the support staff member was incorrect.

If the WYSYIWYG editor is not working correctly for you then the Plain HTML Box would suit you better, this does not format your code.

Can you give me a ticket ID where the 4000 characters were mentioned and as always details and specifics of the description you are having trouble using. If warnings are being shown incorrectly it is a bug that we need to fix.

Thanks
Gazza

If the description is too large an error screen appears when you hit preview advising of a 40,000 character limit. This was displaying correctly this morning. I think either a '0' was missed in the email or it was misread.

[suesjools]

Well you can have five pics as a seller plus. Even more in the description if you host them elsewhere. As to the technical stuff , I've no idea.
You need to talk to support. Not the forums.
You will be talking to real people and not robots. They will be technically savvy and may even speak your language so to speak!

Agree 110%.

Best wishes for many sales to all,

[aftech]

@bykimbo, this listing is a revised listing from an existing listing. When I revised it, I just changed the text of the bulleted list by typing inside the editor. I didn't mess with formatting at all so the code must have been there already. I think the editor makes unnecessary codes each time you revise your listing. I didn't paste this bulleted list from Word.

@astral, you insist my listings are pasted from Word but it's not. For this particular listing I pasted from Word only the Specifications as cmjewel925 suggested and since it worked I left it alone. Usually, when I paste I strip formatting and I hardly paste from Word. It looks like (and I'm not sure) the editor creates additional codes each time I revise a listing.

@papa and pinkpanther, electronics buyers want to see all aspects of the item be it specs and photos and terms of sale and description etc. Like I said if I was selling a simple photo frame there was not much to say about it so basically a listing of electronics is DIFFERENT from a listing of a simple item like say T shirt.
I think I should say this again: I DO WANT eBid TO IMPROVE. I'm encountering this problem often on ebid but not on other sites so I want it resolved. I don't like the mentality of letting it go and getting used to it and basically just erase the problem's statement.

[cmjewels925]

For this particular listing I pasted from Word only the Specifications as cmjewel925 suggested and since it worked I left it alone. Usually, when I paste I strip formatting and I hardly paste from Word. It looks like (and I'm not sure) the editor creates additional codes each time I revise a listing.

Actually, I suggested setting up a default in your 'Defaults' area which you could then load and edit within eBid when creating a new listing. I would NEVER suggest pasting anything from Word into an already bloated field.