posted on August 26, 2003 10:24:31 AM new
Is anyone else finding that in the last few weeks you can't use apostrophe's or " or inches in your descriptions? I know you couldn't use them in the titles before, but now, they become ?, I can't write "a child's" because it comes out child?s, and when I put that something measures 4"x6" in comes out 4?x6? looks as if I am not really sure how much it measures! Is there any way of getting round it? I am writing "inches" in full, but how about the apostrophe's!
posted on August 26, 2003 10:36:10 AM new
I've noticed that too. For years I've had 3 consecutive periods in all of my descriptions to separate some shipping terms and they are not all converted to a question mark. I've been typing out inches instead of " .
Ebay modified something on their site on 8/13 that affects some HTML characters. A disgruntled ebayer created this web page to help out other ebayers since ebay would help at all
posted on August 26, 2003 04:47:11 PM new
Even their own pages are messed up. At the top of each search are the featured itmes, and this is in the banner:
posted on August 26, 2003 05:50:40 PM new
Maybe one of the programmer-powers-that-be finally got totally fed up with people using apostrophes (<--note that there isn't one) for plurals instead of possessives and said "Enough is enough! If they can't use them correctly, they can't use them at all!".
posted on August 26, 2003 07:17:33 PM new
What about the bullets and all the other signs that got messed up?
Yahoo Auctions never allowed the apostrophes at all in the titles. If ebay would have followed Yahoo's lead in outlawing the use of apostrophes four years ago it would have been better off than the drastic change it is going through now.
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