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Originally posted by Mrs.M:
Jared, welcome to our forum!
Mine still come up in this format! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item= It is working perfectly!!
Mrs.M:
Hello, and thanks for the welcome.
I think your links eventually come up in the standard format. However, if you place the mouse over the link before clicking on it, it will probably start out looking like this:
http://ebaylink.auctionsniper.com/showcase/ShowcaseItems.aspx?item=http%3A//cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D3923230138
I'm thinking it works fine for you (and many others) but not me, becuase I have a lot of ad/spyware blocking utilities on my system.
Sara B.:
I run Ad-aware on a regular basis and I keep it up to date. I also use a few other programs to eliminage pop-ups and block potentially dangerous scripts, so it is highly unlikely that I have any known spyware on my system.
Many computers process redirects through ad-servers with no problem, but I've blocked a lot of ad servers by modifying my hosts file. I prefer it this way because these blocked servers cannot create cookies, and their advertisments do not show up on web sites. Advertisments may not bother you much, but they annoy me quite a bit. So the fewer I see, the better.
As I've stated in my previous message, the original link format works fine; why can't we just go back to this?
This 'affiliate site' you've mentioned appears to belong to Auctiva and not eBay, but that's not the issue here. You ultimately have the control to make us go through an affiliate or send us directly to the page we're looking for, and you appear to be choosing the former for tracking purposes.
Unforunately, after all this discussion, it doesn't look like this will be changed. I suppose we'd better get used to it or work around it
2004AD:
My thoughts exactly.