API Error?

willow,

Wow, on first glance I don't see anything wrong with your two listings giving you errors. Let me look into this a little more and see what we find out.

-Kevin

Hi willow,

eBay has some pretty strong filtering for illegal javascript that will sometimes reject things that are harmless. For example, in your listings which failed, the use of parentheses appears to be the cause. Below is rejected by eBay:

<font color="#f5f5dc" face="Arial" size="4">ONE FIREPLACE (PLUGS INTO LUNDBY DOLLHOUSE AND LIGHTS UP WITH A BULB LOCATED BEHIND THE LOGS)</font>

We've asked eBay about this before and their explanation is that the use of DHTML and other techniques can be used to obscure the actual script in the description, so they have to make things super strict to be thorough, but this is pretty frustrating. I suppose you'll need to revise the parts of your description that use parentheses and make sure it will post ok.

Hope this helps,

Joe

Thanks so much for your help!
I'll try removing the parentheses and see what happens.
Thanks again!

That did the trick!!
Weird though, because all of my auctions have at least one set of parenthesis in the final setence of my description: "We will combine shipping charges for multiple items won (unless otherwise noted)".
But I guess the ebay system can tell which part is only instructions and which part is description?
Anyhow... Thanks again so much!