Warning: eBay Video Expired

Hi all

I am receiving this warning when attempting to list using Buy it Now / GTC format:

eBay video expired
The selected eBay video expires soon. you should upload it again’

I checked the video had successfully uploaded, and that its status was ‘live’. There is no expiration date shown when checking the video in ‘My eBay Videos’.

So I removed the video from the listing, deleted the video from ‘My eBay Videos’, uploaded the video again, waited for it to go live, added it to the listing, and again I received the same warning.

I am running GS 9.9.2

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks.

I just ignore it. That comes up every time I restart my listings with videos. I just checked one… video is there working as it should. Running 9.9.2b3. and 12.7.6 os. It is fine, just go ahead with the old video. In the future it doesn’t need deleted and uploaded again.

It’s a red warning, so AFAIK it can’t be ignored / negated.

Really odd. Could it be that you somehow still added the old video maybe?

Some ideas:
• Remove the video from your listing.
• Remove the video from “My eBay Videos”.
• Change the title of the video file and re-upload it.
• Restart GarageSale.
• Start your listing without the video.
• Add the video to your listing (when “live”) and revise your running listing.

My GS says this on every relist with a video and I just ignore it and the video is on Ebay and runs fine.

Personally I detest uploading videos to eBay as they clearly are throttling the speed as its way too slow.

I instead upload them to YouTube and embed them using the website below.

YouTube or Vimeo Code Converter for eBay 2018 - 2022 (isdntek.com)

The code this site creates is the same each time aside from the links to the YouTube video so you can alternatively just use a AppleScript I created t o generate the code.

(1) Go to YouTube and copy the shareable link to your computer’s clipboard.

(2) Double click AppleScript.

(3) A Dialog will be displayed into which you paste the shareable link and click the “Continue” button.

(4) A second dialog will be displayed with the default value “Watch Video”. This is a short caption that is placed on the top left corner of the video’s screen grab. If you want to use the default press the “Continue” button. If you do not want a caption delete the default text (which is already selected) and then press the “Continue” button. If you want to use another caption, such as your eBay username, type it in and press the “Continue” button.

(5) The assembled code is copied to your clipboard for pasting into GS’s HTML view.

Modify the AppleScript below as needed.

Please note that a " or \ symbol in the EmbedCode string has to be escaped with backslash such as \" or \\ or you will get an error so be careful about any edits.
set replaceShare to (display dialog "Enter Share URL" default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button "Continue")

set theShare to text returned of replaceShare
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set theTextItems to text items of theShare
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
set theCount to count text items of theTextItems
set theShare to item (theCount) of theTextItems

set replaceTitle to (display dialog "Enter Caption" default answer "Watch Video" buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button "Continue")

set theTitle to text returned of replaceTitle

set EmbedCode to "<!-- BEGIN LINKED VIDEO -->\n<div class=\"ytvideo\">\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/" & theShare & "?rel=0\">\n<img src=\"https://img.youtube.com/vi/" & theShare & "/0.jpg\"></a>/n<p class=\"yt_hd\">" & theTitle & "</p>\n<p class=\"yt_ft\">Video will open in a new window<br>Using the eBay App? Paste link into a browser window:</p>\n<span class=\"yt_tag\" style=\"display:none\">[isdntekvideo]</span>\n<input class=\"yt_inp\" type=\"text\" value=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/" & theShare & "?rel=0\">\n</div>\n<style> .ytvideo * { box-sizing:border-box; } .ytvideo { margin:.5em auto 40px auto; max-width:480px; font-family:arial; text-align:center; position:relative; min-height:120px; background-color:#555; } .ytvideo p { position:absolute; margin:0; color:white; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.5); } .ytvideo .yt_hd { font-size:16px; width:100%; height:28px; padding-top:6px; text-align:left; top:0; left:0; padding-left:10px; overflow:hidden; } .ytvideo .yt_ft { font-size:12px; width:100%; bottom:0; left:0; } .ytvideo img { display:block; max-width:100%; border:0; } .ytvideo a:after { content:\"\\A0\\25BA\"; position:absolute; width:60px; height:40px; left:0; top:0; right:0; bottom:0; margin:auto; border:0; border-radius:10px; color:white; background:rgba(0,0,0,.6); font-size:24px; padding-top:11px; cursor:pointer; } .ytvideo a:hover:after { background:#CC181E; } .ytvideo .yt_inp { position:absolute; top:100%; left:0; width:100%; text-align:center; padding:.5em .2em; border:0; color:white; background: rgba(0,0,0,.7); } @media(max-device-width:960px){ .ytvideo { margin-bottom:60px; } .ytvideo .yt_inp { padding:1em .2em; } } </style>\n<!-- END LINKED VIDEO -->"

set the clipboard to EmbedCode

(2) That should say Double click the Application (i.e., Applescript exported as a application - I store the app on the edge of one of my flatscreens).