Bug with text within "" quotation marks into items specifics

[fedege96]

Hi,

I just found another bug. Text within ““ quotation marks into items specifics disappears from the items specific field, but appears in the preview. Check the VIDEO .

Let me know if you can reproduce.

Federico

[vjl]

I was not able to reproduce this bug after testing it in the Author field in Item Specifics. [I would love to know how you get the item specifics to also show up in the item description too! maybe that’s part of a template].

One thing I did notice is we both use a 3rd party app - PopClip. It makes copying/pasting much easier when one’s hands are not near the keyboard and processing items in the clipboard [highlight, and instantly search eBay with a click]. But I wonder if disabling it just for testing, might help? I did not disable mine for my test. Using macOS 14.7.5 and GS 9.9.2. Using PopClip 2025.9 though I just noticed in the app itself it says there’s an update to 2025.9.2, so I will update to that

[fedege96]

@vjl

[I would love to know how you get the item specifics to also show up in the item description too! maybe that’s part of a template].

Hi Vince,

paste this into the editor:

<table>
[[foreach attr item.previewSpecifics attLoop]]
<tr>
<td><b>[[attr.name]]</b></td>
<td>
[[foreach attrValue attr.values valueLoop]][[if attrValueIndex > 0]], [[endif]][[attrValue]][[endforeach valueLoop]]
</td>
</tr>
[[endforeach attLoop]]
</table>
<br>
[[item.conditionDescription]]
<br>
<br>

@vjl

One thing I did notice is we both use a 3rd party app - PopClip. It makes copying/pasting much easier when one’s hands are not near the keyboard and processing items in the clipboard [highlight, and instantly search eBay with a click]. But I wonder if disabling it just for testing, might help? I did not disable mine for my test. Using macOS 14.7.5 and GS 9.9.2. Using PopClip 2025.9 though I just noticed in the app itself it says there’s an update to 2025.9.2, so I will update to that

The last update of pop clip gave me problems, so now my policy is “when everything works, just do not touch anything”

[vjl]

I just dug into the help menu for creating templates and saw nearly that exact code example - thank you! I may play around with that in the new year.

I am the same way, regarding updates which is why I am still on an older version of Safari and on 14.7.5 [macOS 15 breaks a legacy app that I rely on and I got burned badly with 14.7.5 breaking /usr/bin/shortcuts - 100% Apple’s fault as they gave the wrong permissions to the command, but I used to use that in daily work, and it took a while to change my workflow to figure a new solution out - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256038658?login=true&sortBy=rank&answerId=261377757022 ].

I do believe I can roll back PopClip via Time Machine [something I could not do with /usr/bin/shortcuts as my post on the Apple forum states [I’m the white squirrel there ]. It does look like 2025.9.2 was released to fix an issue with 2025.9.1 pretty quickly, but I’ll have to use it more to see if I run into issues. February every year is my slow month, so that’s when I tend to make changes, roll back, etc, my software/hardware.

While I was not able to reproduce this particular bug, I did reproduce the Buy It Now price bug, so hopefully that will help GS devs a bit - it’s not just you!

[fedege96]

@vjl

I just dug into the help menu for creating templates and saw nearly that exact code example - thank you! I may play around with that in the new year.

I do not use any template. Just a simple page and past that code into the editor page. Anything else, now I am only working with item specifics to autofill the description (that actually nowadays none reads more…)

@vjl

I do believe I can roll back PopClip via Time Machine

The last update of PopClip (months ago) brought a bug that made the copy/past from GS not reliable, so I returned to the previous version by reinstalling the old one.

@vjl

While I was not able to reproduce this particular bug, I did reproduce the Buy It Now price bug, so hopefully that will help GS devs a bit - it’s not just you!

Thank you, I have 5 working Macs in the office and both bugs can be reproduced on all machines, I hope GS team will be able to debug it. If anything else is needed from me, please just ask me.

And in the meanwhile… Merry Christmas!

[ilja]

Thanks for reporting. This version should hopefully fix this issue:

https://downloads.iwascoding.com/downloads/GarageSale_9.9.5b2.dmg

[fedege96]

Hi Ilja,

good, it seems to be fixed.

[vjl]

@fedege96

The last update of PopClip (months ago) brought a bug that made the copy/past from GS not reliable, so I returned to the previous version by reinstalling the old one.

FWIW, I’ve been running PopClip 2025.9.2 with GS 9.9.2 under macOS 14.7.5 just fine now, after upgrading PopClip last week [I use it so many times a day!]. So at least for my version of GS it seems to be okay. Is PopClip not popping up for you when you copy something from GS? I’ll be upgrading GS in late January, early February, so I will report back if I have issues with that version.