Ebay listing help please
 

Am trying to sell my daughter's Sylvanian Families House on the Hill and I keep getting this stupid message:

'
Please provide the correct information in the highlighted fields.

• Description - Your listing cannot contain javascript (".cookie", "cookie(", "replace(", IFRAME, META, or includes), cookies or base href.'

What does it mean? Never seen it before - so what am I doing wrong?

Ta for any help

Ed

Re: Ebay listing help please
 

Have you copied and pasted the description in?
What it's saying is it thinks something in the text you've inputted is computer coding. Guess it just could be an odd term or it could be that you've copied and pasted from somewhere and took a bit of the formatting with you.

Re: Ebay listing help please
 

Are you cut and pasting something from another site?

Re: Ebay listing help please
 

No, I wrote it myself from scratch. This is it:

Sylvanian Families House on the Hill with extras and original box.

Not only is this set in fantastic condition - as new in fact - it's also loaded with beautiful goodies.

It was lovingly collected and lovingly cared for. My daughter has now outgrown it.

Set contains:

House on the Hill - this is a three-storey house with a stoop
Badger family - mummy and daddy boy and girl Badger
Victorian living room furniture - fireplace (the fire glows,
(AA battery needed); clock; sofa; two chairs; picture; sideboard; telephone
Kitchen range (the doors open and the knobs turn); toaster
Dining table with two chairs
Grandfather clock
Bathroom set - bath; bath bridge with back brush; toilet and stand; shower; toilet roll holder; bucket
Bedroom set - bed; duvet; pillow, cheval mirror; stool (seat lifts up)
Two cribs; duvets; chair; dressing table (drawers open)
Front steps
Ladder

I think that's everything - but all the items you see in the photos will be in the box.

In original box. All the pieces will be carefully wrapped individually in bubble wrap.

From a smoke-free home.

This set really is in perfect condition - as new. The starting bid reflects this.

You won't be disappointed. This is a fantastic Christmas gift.

Paypal preferred. No returns. Item is boxed (original) for immediate despatch.

Can deliver free in Shropshire Cheshire Wirral or Liverpool - otherwise first class post. It's a tad pricey but this is a very large box.

Thanks for looking.

Re: Ebay listing help please
 

This is more of a guess than anything but it might not like the repeated semi colons here:
Bathroom set - bath; bath bridge with back brush; toilet and stand; shower; toilet roll holder; bucket
Bedroom set - bed; duvet; pillow, cheval mirror; stool (seat lifts up)
Two cribs; duvets; chair; dressing table (drawers open)

(and else where) try separating with a comma

Re: Ebay listing help please
 

Copy it from the thread, not from the reply box editor - you're using the advanced editor yes? You have a bunch of text formatting and ebay doesn't like it

Or paste it into a new notepad file and then copy/paste it from there into ebay to remove all the formatting and use plain text

Re: Ebay listing help please
 

Is there a smiley face in there anywhere? Happened to me a few times. Deleted the smileys but still had to rewrite everything several times before it would work.

Re: Ebay listing help please
 

My guess would be this part...

fireplace (the

...contains the string 'replace' followed by an open bracket which is a JavaScript function it won't accept. The fact you have the string 'replace' contained within another word (in this case fireplace) is neither here nor there as the regex probably won't take that into account.

That's my thought, try removing the brackets in that part and use something else and see if it lets it through then.

Re: Ebay listing help please
 

Blimey!!! I trawled and trawled the ad script and didn't notice.

We have a winner!!!!!!!!!! It works!!!!!!!

Thank you everyone!!!!!!!!!

Re: Ebay listing help please
 

bloody hell chris..


that is such sad knowledge.

I will drink to your geekiness tommorrow night with you