eBay popups on the forums...

Outhaul · February 10, 2019 5:51AM

All of a sudden, every time I open a post with an eBay link I get a pop up to the auction in the lower right of my iPad screen. This is annoying as hell! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!

Thanks for all help.

We now return you to your usual zaniness.

Bob

ricko · February 10, 2019 7:36AM

I have not seen this yet....It would certainly be annoying though....Just got a new computer, so maybe my software has some blocking functions... Cheers, RickO

Raybob15239 · February 10, 2019 7:40AM

I get it on my phone and tablet. It is annoying.

thisistheshow · February 10, 2019 7:44AM

I get this on my phone. It just pops up when I am moving past the link then disappears.

jmlanzaf · February 10, 2019 8:10AM

@Outhaul said:
All of a sudden, every time I open a post with an eBay link I get a pop up to the auction in the lower right of my iPad screen. This is annoying as hell! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!

Thanks for all help.

We now return you to your usual zaniness.

Bob

Have you considered that it is your phone settings or browser settings and not the board settings? Maybe YOU can MAKE IT STOP!

Outhaul · February 10, 2019 8:42AM

Well, I wouldn’t think that it would be the forum settings and I certainly wouldn’t have asked the question before I checked my iPad/iPhone settings . But I really appreciate your valuable input.

blitzdude · February 10, 2019 8:45AM

@jmlanzaf said:

@Outhaul said:
All of a sudden, every time I open a post with an eBay link I get a pop up to the auction in the lower right of my iPad screen. This is annoying as hell! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!

Thanks for all help.

We now return you to your usual zaniness.

Bob

Have you considered that it is your phone settings or browser settings and not the board settings? Maybe YOU can MAKE IT STOP!

Agreed, sounds like one of those annoying apple things. Nothing to do with PCGS or the forum.

Zoins · February 10, 2019 8:49AM

I just started seeing this too. I thought it was a forum update like the edit gear. I don’t mind it so much since it seems only for eBay links on the forum and includes a photo so it’s adds info to the thread.

topstuf · February 10, 2019 9:14AM

I think it's only on mobile devices.
eBay has screwed up almost EVERYTHING on their mobile site.
Even the search feature.
I stay with my desktop and have speed and better results.

asheland · February 10, 2019 11:27AM

I've seen it on my phone, it's annoying to the point that I just close the thread all together.

SaorAlba · February 10, 2019 2:34PM

Hmmm, I don't see any poopups oops I mean popups. Adblock is wonderful.

jmlanzaf · February 10, 2019 4:58PM

I don't see any on either my tablet or android phone

Swampboy · February 10, 2019 5:08PM

@Outhaul said:
All of a sudden, every time I open a post with an eBay link I get a pop up to the auction in the lower right of my iPad screen. This is annoying as hell! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!

Thanks for all help.

We now return you to your usual zaniness.

Bob

Just another thing to ignore and/or learn to live with.

giantsfan20 · February 10, 2019 5:13PM

The popups have showed up for a couple of months. Using ipad safari what is everybody else using.

maybe @HeatherBoyd can chime in on this issue

SeatedToners · February 10, 2019 8:38PM

I have this eBay popup too. I wonder if it happens because I have the eBay app on my phone?

mapleman · February 11, 2019 6:29AM

I get them on an android phone not desktop [google]. No ebay app on phone but do search and open offers.

StrikeOutXXX · February 11, 2019 6:35AM

I've had them on my iPad for awhile now (if someone links an eBay auction in a post, the pop-up window with a direct link to the auction shows in the lower right of my ipad).

I tried removing the eBay app, resetting everything in Safari, looking at settings, etc. The only thing I found to stop it was turn javascript off in Safari, but that wrecks a lot of other things.

I haven't found a working solution personally.

derryb · February 11, 2019 9:25AM

@topstuf said:

I stay with my desktop and have speed and better results.

My Windows 95 still working great. Bit slow, but dependable.

logger7 · February 11, 2019 9:34AM

I asked them how I could stop the spam type pop-ups and links; they said there was no way to do that.

TwoSides2aCoin · February 11, 2019 9:49AM

I feel the same about ebay allowing Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, to have links that lead away from ebay to their sites, but they won't allow me to have a link to my own site or to use my dotcom in the listings. I'm paying for the listing. It is rubbish and we are subject to TOS !

AUandAG · February 11, 2019 10:18AM

I use adblock plus and do not have problems with popups.

bob

logger7 · February 11, 2019 3:24PM

eBay is a good system generally, for buyers and can be for sellers with controls built in. Not like the Wild West days around 2000. Still as a seller I am amazed at how I have to enter all salient details into a listing every single time and how little sellers really get for what they pay with their system in terms of automatic background information on individual coins. There should be a template for every coin and every grade with ease of listings.

ctf_error_coins · February 11, 2019 4:00PM

@logger7 said:
There should be a template for every coin and every grade with ease of listings.

LOL, on that one.

giantsfan20 · April 13, 2019 1:06AM

How come PCGS has not responded to this issue as to why it shows up etc and removal of it?

@BrettPCGS
@HeatherBoyd

giantsfan20 · April 13, 2019 1:08AM

using ipad safari NO ebay app and setting is blocked for pop ups.

giantsfan20 · April 29, 2019 6:58PM

Ok here is the response.

The popups are a business arraingement with EBAY

Since this answer was hard to get and my post got deleted as well. That explains it.

thisistheshow · April 29, 2019 8:42PM

@giantsfan20 said:
Ok here is the response.

The popups are a business arraingement with EBAY

Since this answer was hard to get and my post got deleted as well. That explains it.

Thank you for letting us know.

Hemispherical · April 29, 2019 8:43PM

Heather closed that other thread.

thebeav · April 30, 2019 4:56AM

The crazy advertisement thing I see for ebay is the regular 'ad' that you see on many web pages. Heck, some pages have 10 ads (not 10 ebay ads) scattered on them.
Well, anyway, the standard ad I see will show a photo of three different coins for sale on ebay. Very often one of the coins will be mine. Like I'm supposed to think that everyone that looks at the page is seeing my stuff. It's just 'feel-good' advertising. It's odd though......

CascadeChris · April 30, 2019 6:57AM

@derryb said:

@topstuf said:

I stay with my desktop and have speed and better results.

My Windows 95 still working great. Bit slow, but dependable.

How's your dot matrix printer holding up?

Aercus · April 30, 2019 9:03AM

It's a tie in from the app. Slightly annoying, but not annoying enough for me to have researched a work around.

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