Lost my listing I was working on when I did a pop up window and instead Maintance for the next thirty minutes@! Bummer!!!!!!!! wish you would get an automatic saver!!
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Excellent idea...
smooth listing tonight at 03:13PST...
photos came up fine with 3-4 clicks.
adore the slide show.. it's mitey fine!
karen
smooth listing tonight at 03:13PST...
photos came up fine with 3-4 clicks.
adore the slide show.. it's mitey fine!
karen
Yeah, if the system automatically saved listings in progress that would be excellent!
A feature like this may work with fast internet connections. I have a feeling it wouldn't with dialup though. Maybe it could be an option someday.
This is the first time really checking my saved listings since the system maintence.I have not tried to upload any listings yet to see if they come up blank because I have to redo all mine first. My listings managed to get scrambled in the program somehow. This is the first time I have had this problem since I have started using Auctiva. I guess I should not complain and it would not do much good lol. But to reformat 311 listings and to try to list a huge amount before school starts in July will be my biggest challange. 
I suppose I need to copy and past each listing into word program to help save future work/problems down the road.
I suppose I need to copy and past each listing into word program to help save future work/problems down the road.
I'm not sure if you're just commenting of if you have a question. If you have a question, probably a brand new thread would be the way to go.
But: I thought I'd mention what I've started doing lately, which is writing my listings ahead of time but doing so within the design editor on the Auctiva listing page. When I've finished I switch to text mode, right click to Select All and then save the description to Notepad. Then when I'm ready to create the actual listing I switch the editor to text mode and copy from Notepad. No problems that I've noticed yet -- I assume because this means pasting in straight code rather than formatted text, if that makes sense.
I don't know if it'll help your particular problem but it might be worth a try.
But: I thought I'd mention what I've started doing lately, which is writing my listings ahead of time but doing so within the design editor on the Auctiva listing page. When I've finished I switch to text mode, right click to Select All and then save the description to Notepad. Then when I'm ready to create the actual listing I switch the editor to text mode and copy from Notepad. No problems that I've noticed yet -- I assume because this means pasting in straight code rather than formatted text, if that makes sense.
I don't know if it'll help your particular problem but it might be worth a try.
quote:Originally posted by Auctiva Jeff:
A feature like this may work with fast internet connections. I have a feeling it wouldn't with dialup though. Maybe it could be an option someday.
Jeff, do you guys have stats on the percentage of dial-up users you have? I know they're still out there but it seems like the percentage would be really tiny at this point, so I'm curious.
An auto-save would cut down on a lot of complaints, I'd bet, about scheduled maintenance, unscheduled maintenance, hiccups, an individual's OS/browser problems, etc.
I'm not so sure the percentage of people still on dialup is "really tiny" - I know many people who use it - including ME - and there are still lots of areas in the country where it's not yet available, or only available through AOHell, which is just about the same thing.
I guess I've just been on high-speed for long enough now that I can't imagine still being on dial-up -- much less dealing with eBay on dial-up!
But I can relate -- when I finally got broadband for the first time a few years ago I had to wait for a year until the cable company finally decided to lay cable in our area (small town in the country).
But I can relate -- when I finally got broadband for the first time a few years ago I had to wait for a year until the cable company finally decided to lay cable in our area (small town in the country).
quote:Jeff, do you guys have stats on the percentage of dial-up users you have?
I've heard it's in the 40-50% range. Users with high speed internet is getting close or might have recently passed dialup. I would think probably 80 or 90% of our users have high speed. It would be a good question to ask on our next poll though. Many dialup users still like us because our 1 page lister is about 80% smaller than eBays 5 or 6 lister pages. That is a big time savings too.
This article from May says 42% have high speed, compared to 30% the year before.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-7/11...759151730.xml&coll=1
Here in California we can get a basic DSL connection from At&t for $12.99 with a 1 year contract. That gets you a 768/128 connection. I live in a home built in the late 50's and that's the fastest I can get on DSL, even though I'm maybe a mile and a half from the phone office here.
I keep thinking about upgrading to a cable modem, but I haven't been able to come up with a reason why I would want to pay another $40 a month.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-7/11...759151730.xml&coll=1
Here in California we can get a basic DSL connection from At&t for $12.99 with a 1 year contract. That gets you a 768/128 connection. I live in a home built in the late 50's and that's the fastest I can get on DSL, even though I'm maybe a mile and a half from the phone office here.
I keep thinking about upgrading to a cable modem, but I haven't been able to come up with a reason why I would want to pay another $40 a month.
quote:This article from May says 42% have high speed, compared to 30% the year before.
Wow! That's really surprising. Thanks for the info, Jeff.
Thanks Rick for the advice on saving to notepad. I just wished I had known months ago to do that lol. I was making a comment and an awareness at the same time to 'Shoes' post. And I agree with Shoes, I too wish there was an automatic saver. Even though I do not have dial up, internet still reboots and if I am working on a page, then I loose what I have been working on and have to start over. Just like with the maintence and upgrading going on, I guess I can say I have been pretty lucky until now. After the last session,(whenever that was since I have not been on here since my brothers passing) my listings have scrambled. Some look ok until I hit preview and that is where I see my ending in the middle and the middle at the end. lol. Just wished I was able to of caught it sooner. So if I am at the wrong 'Thread', I do apologyze, but I thought it would of been related to the "automatic listing" idea.
Thanks for listing.
Thanks for listing.
quote:Originally posted by Rick Bradford:quote:This article from May says 42% have high speed, compared to 30% the year before.
Wow! That's really surprising. Thanks for the info, Jeff.
Not so surprising to me ... where I am, and where I just moved from as well (another state) high-speed costs a MINIMUM of $49.99 a month, and up. And in order to get even that price you have to get it in a package with either upgraded cable (if cable highspeed) or some hoop te do ridiculously expensive phone service that gives you a lot of crap that many people neither really want or use.. If you don't upgrade the cable or phone (whichever) then it's even MORE per month. That's a lotta moolah for a lotta people.
quote:Originally posted by dmhcollectibles:
there are still lots of areas in the country where it's not yet available, or only available through AOHell, which is just about the same thing.
Know what? In the areas that persons think that AOhell is their only option, there are more that those people didn't even consider or search out.
There's copper.net, peoplepc.com, netzero.com, etc etc. AND for half the price!
I just don't understand it myself. Same internet, why pay twice the price if not more for dialup.
I guess they need to make up for the money they spend sending out those flippin FREE trial CDs that are everywhere AND come to my home and Post Office on a regular base that they need to charge so much. I started two and a half years ago putting return to sender/refused on the AOHell CDs.
CNBC did an expose
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/06/aol_cnbc.html
Cable modem is great and I can't imagine living without a fast internet connection now.
Road runner has implemented a roadrunner lite which I'm thinking of going with...14.95 a month. It's DSL speed which is fine with me. A song it takes me less than a minute to get will be two minutes. <shrug> That's not much of a difference. I do wonder if it'll drag down our networked family computers and the customer service couldn't answer yes or not to that question.
DMH as far as the phone. We all have our own cell phones on a family plan...so I booted my phone service down to a 7.20 a month pkg.
It's not advertised here in Florida...at all! DUH! It's 30 phone calls a month out on the line. I checked last month and there were less than 15 calls placed out on the home line. Everyone calls us on our individual cell phones and we definitely call out using the cell phones.
Can you believe that? All the bells and whistles aren't important to me on the phone line for an outrageous price. <shrug> The only person that calls that line anymore is my father as he doesn't trust talking to me on a, what he calls, "walk around phone." <smile> Plus, I want to have a landline for hurricane season. When the multitude of hurricanes came through...we lost towers out this way and couldn't use our cells. We had to drive 10 miles in towards town to get a signal until the home line worked which wasn't that long..a couple of days tops.
Check out that package if you're with Verizon. I'd go with the Verizon DSL if it were out here in BFE. <smile>
Later,
Donna