eBay is offering a simple solution to these upcoming issues by having users BULK EDIT http listings to replace HTTP links with HTTPS and I am wondering what iwascoding response will be and if you may offer HTTPS links to fixthese error links
For those of us who cannot edit older listings (reasons being: removed from garage sale to conserve storage space or other), we need an alternative solution for how to proceed with editing these listings. I currently have over 900 listings active with HTTP errors, and only about 200 of those can be edited through my current garage sale application. I have listed and sold almost 5000 listings this year, and to conserve space on my MAC I have needed to delete sold listings and remove some active listings on eBay that were older garage sale listings, and could instead be edited on ebayâs site as needed.
Can garage sale offer an easier solution by having the error HTTP images converted to HTTPS as this would lessen the complication of a situation like ours. Currently I see that the older HTTP images shown in garage sale listings are causing these issues, and the easiest fix appears to be garagesale/iwascoding changing their images to HTTPS. I understand this may not be possible but we do need a solution that does not involve revising a listing. Ebay mentions that it is reaching our to 3rd parties, so have you already been contacted?
To change a running listing on eBay, you need to revise that listing. Thereâs no other way.
So, even if we added a bulk HTTP->HTTPS converter to GarageSale, youâd still need to do the following:
Import all running listings that are not already in GarageSale
Run the hypothetical HTTP->HTTPS converter on these listings
Select all running listings and run a bulk revise of the description
This is how this might work, but since you donât want to run a Revise and your Mac might not have enough disk space, it might not be what you want. Please advise.
Also, when re-importing listings from eBay, GarageSale is unable to âunmangleâ design resources and images embedded into the description. The only way to edit those for these listings is by modifying the listing descriptionâs HTML code manually.
No, this is not possible. GarageSale can no longer unmangle design and images from the description code. So, you cannot alter design or images in those listing without manually modifying the HTML listing by listing.
We are in the process of cooking up something experimental. Please stay tunedâŚ
Oh OK, something experimental would be greatly appreciated as this may be my only option to fix these older listings.
I know 95% of my current eBay listings were made through garage sale, so that may help my chances of having them âunmangledâ? I know these changes are coming in October so Iâm hoping that eBay or garagesale is able to find a solution to this issue that makes it a little easier.
Your current solution isnât too hard to do, but in my instance its just not a possibility to edit listings that are no longer on my garagesale program
thereâs actually an easy way on ebay itself. from your seller dashboard you can select all the items you want to edit. then you have to select âbulk edit descriptionâ (something like that). there is a find/replace option. then you just type http: into the find box, and https: into the replace box. super easy. also, if you need to remove the old footer, again you can search for the code for the old footer (which is only showing up as the actual footer here for some reason):
and replace with " " (thatâs just 1 click of the space bar in the replace box)
