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I occasionally use the beckett website to cut and paste exact names of cards into my ebay listings. Noticed yesterday I couldn't cut and paste from there, but thought nothing of it. Today I tried again and it doesn't work. Strange to think they would do something to keep people from doing that.

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  • jmlabonnerjmlabonner Posts: 325 ✭✭✭
    I do the same thing and was having the same issues every now and then. All I did was logout, closed my browser, and went back to Beckett and it seemed to fix it. Hope this helps!
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  • PMKAYPMKAY Posts: 1,372 ✭✭
    Found this posted on another website. I have online subscriptions for hockey and football that I have now cancelled because of this.

    Hello,

    Thank you for your email. We were notified that some customer are copying card data from our website and posting it on other websites/blogs. Hence for data security we have disabled the copy/paste option from our website. If you wish to have a print of your collection, you can add cards to your organize and use the print collection feature available in Organize.


    Yogesh Singh
    Beckett Media
    Customer Helpdesk Phone: 855-777-2325 (Online Subscriptions)
    4635 McEwen Rd 800-764-6278 (Magazine subscriptions)
    Dallas, TX 75244 Fax : 813-902-6992
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They seem to have fixed it now. I think enough people finally complained, right-click functionality and copy/paste are working fine.
  • hyperchipper09hyperchipper09 Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beckett. Talk about a site that's had it's quirks since the late 90's...
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Beckett. Talk about a site that's had it's quirks since the late 90's... >>


    The latest I've received from 2/11, at least they're honest:

    To our Beckett.com Members,
    We want to sincerely apologize for the recent slowdown in service to users of the organize software tool. We hear you loud and clear and understand your frustration with this portion of our website, as well as speed issues with other functions on the site recently. This problem can be attributed to growing pains as much as anything else. The good news is that we have more collectors than ever before accessing data, organizing their collections, and trading with other collectors on our site. The bads news is that we have not been fully prepared to handle the vast amount of quick growth that we've experienced in this area. No one wants this problem to be resolved as much as we do and we're not asking for you to excuse us from our obligations. You have our commitment to turn this short term speed problem into a long term positive change in how the backend architecture of the site is designed so that this will not be a recurring problem.
    In short, new servers have been installed and we are experiencing noticeable improvements in speed. Heavily traveled and queried portions of the site, like organize, will be changed structurally to allow more timely access now and in the future. You should notice even more improvements in speed to Organize within the next two weeks and more permanent speed enhancements after all hardware and architectural changes are installed over the next four weeks. We realize that this can be a long time to wait, since you've already been waiting for some time, but we strongly feel that those who stick with us will be quite pleased with the final results and pleased with the array of enhancements and new services that will become possible in 2014 due to this hardware and software restructuring.
    Direct Collector-to-Collector (C2C) buying and selling is just one of the many significant enhancements that Organize users will enjoy, but that's just for starters. We are committed to making Organize the fastest, most user friendly collecting software on the market and we hope that you will agree once we all pass this current road block.
    Customer communication has not always been our strong suit and we realize it. We're taking steps to change this situation as well, and we trust that you'll notice improvements over the coming months on this front.
    We thank you for your patience.
    Dan Hitt Senior Manager - eCommerce
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK, the issue is back again. For those interested, here's how to bypass. I use Firefox as my primary browser, so set up my IE specifically for Beckett (this may break other sites functionality, so I would recommend using a secondary browser or you may have to keep toggling this setting back and forth).

    In IE, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Security tab -> Custom level -> Scroll down to the 'Scripting' section and change 'Active Scripting' from Enable to Disable. Reload the page and you can copy/paste and right-click again.

    For those interested, here's the portion of code causing the issue:
    document.onkeydown = disableCtrlACKeys;
    document.onselectstart = function(){return false};
    disableSelections();
    disableRightClick();
    disablePrint();


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