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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 3:47 am

that's simply great!!!

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:37 pm

Very nice.

Just curious, whenever I click on an auction that has already ended, I'm not carried to the auction but instead I end up with a blank page. How does it work for everyone else?

I would be nice to be able to go an old auction to look at the specifics for comparison. They seller's name link works fine and I usually just backtrack through their completed auctions to find it. I was just wondering if this is a setting I have incorrect. Thanks.

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:54 pm

Nope, that's a recurring bug that I've had trouble getting fixed. What browser are you using? More specifically, could you visit this page:

Useragent Detect | StatCounter Global Stats

... and report back your useragent string? Thanks!

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:13 pm

FoulFoot wrote in eBay Auction Previewer:Nope, that's a recurring bug that I've had trouble getting fixed. What browser are you using? More specifically, could you visit this page:

Useragent Detect | StatCounter Global Stats

... and report back your useragent string? Thanks!

Foul

I actually have the same issue and have been using the same work around, so it's not that big of a deal. I'm currently using Firefox 23.0.1( though I know FF 24 is out now). Here's the stats from the page you posted:

Useragent Detection - Your Current Useragent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0

Browser Name: Firefox
Browser Version: 23.0
OS: Win7
Hardware Vendor: Unknown
Hardware Model: Unknown
Screen Width:
Screen Height:
Is it a desktop device: Yes
Is it a mobile device: No
Is it a tablet: No
Is it a crawler/robot: No
Is it a console: No

Help us to improve our detection.. edit or amend these results!

Hope this helps.

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:16 pm

Sure thing and thanks for the quick response!

Useragent Detection - Your Current Useragent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0

Browser Name: Firefox
Browser Version: 24.0
OS: Win7
Hardware Vendor: Unknown
Hardware Model: Unknown
Screen Width:
Screen Height:
Is it a desktop device: Yes
Is it a mobile device: No
Is it a tablet: No
Is it a crawler/robot: No
Is it a console: No

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:18 pm

Just for a reference, I just tried it with IE and it worked fine.

Useragent Detection - Your Current Useragent:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0; NP06; chromeframe/30.0.1599.66)

Browser Name: IE
Browser Version: 10.0
OS: Win7
Hardware Vendor: Unknown
Hardware Model: Unknown
Screen Width:
Screen Height:
Is it a desktop device: Yes
Is it a mobile device: No
Is it a tablet: No
Is it a crawler/robot: No
Is it a console: No

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:22 pm

cdenham wrote in eBay Auction Previewer:Sure thing and thanks for the quick response!

Useragent Detection - Your Current Useragent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0

Browser Name: Firefox
Browser Version: 24.0
OS: Win7
Hardware Vendor: Unknown
Hardware Model: Unknown
Screen Width:
Screen Height:
Is it a desktop device: Yes
Is it a mobile device: No
Is it a tablet: No
Is it a crawler/robot: No
Is it a console: No

Hmmm, we both use FF and I just tested a closed out auction through IE and it worked just as it should.

It must be a FF issue of some sort, perhaps in the coding.

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:37 pm

Yep, it's a Firefox issue. I believe Opera also has the same problem. IE and Chrome do not.

Let's try this: when you click the link, and a blank page opens, look at the link in your address bar. It should be:

Code:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ 
** expired/removed eBay auction **
/?orig_cvip=true

Let's try removing the last forward slash. So in your address bar, make the link this:

Code:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ 
** expired/removed eBay auction **
?orig_cvip=true

... and hit "enter", see if it works.

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:44 pm

I use FF as well and I just erase everything back to the auction number and it works fine.

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:58 pm

You are correct on the address bar and removing the '\' from the address fixes the problem.

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:05 pm

Try 'er now:
** expired/removed eBay auction **
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:06 pm

FoulFoot wrote in eBay Auction Previewer:

Let's try removing the last forward slash. So in your address bar, make the link this:

Code:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ 
** expired/removed eBay auction **
?orig_cvip=true
... and hit "enter", see if it works.

Foul

This worked for me.

I also tried as removing everything to the right of the backslash(and including it) and that worked as well.

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:07 pm

FoulFoot wrote in eBay Auction Previewer:Try 'er now:
** expired/removed eBay auction **
Foul

That worked.

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:27 pm

Works like a charm!

NOW that is service.

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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:59 pm

FoulFoot wrote in eBay Auction Previewer:I managed to defeat eBay's attempts to obscure the real sale price of an item that accepted a best offer:
** expired/removed eBay auction **
Note that this "true sales price" will only be shown on the eBay Preview Image, NOT the eBay widget (blame eBay for this). As a reminder, you can enable the Previewer / enable Widgets / disable the system entirely via Control Panel, Board preferences, Edit display options. Foul

Sweet! Thanks for the deobfuscation, Scott.

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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:45 am

Hey Scott---

Any chance you could either add a link for Seller's Other Auctions or change the seller link to point to their other auctions? It would save a click or two from the auction listing or the seller profile.

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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:42 am

cdenham wrote in eBay Auction Previewer:Very nice. :)

Just curious, whenever I click on an auction that has already ended, I'm not carried to the auction but instead I end up with a blank page. How does it work for everyone else?

I would be nice to be able to go an old auction to look at the specifics for comparison. They seller's name link works fine and I usually just backtrack through their completed auctions to find it. I was just wondering if this is a setting I have incorrect. Thanks.

I get the same behavior (i.e. blank page), using Mozilla Firefox v20.0 on Ubuntu Linux.

~throwi

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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:12 pm

You shouldn't be getting that blank page now. Make sure you refresh your browser / clear your cache, then try it again.

Foul

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