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TECHIE TIPS: Short eBay links

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Anne:
If you know the number of an eBay item but the link is one of those long scrolling forever types which seems to be 6 feet long, don't despair!  You can use this easy method to post to any eBay item just by inserting the item number onto the end of this link code:


--- Code: ---http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=
--- End code ---

so to link to eBay item number 110162282925 your code would read:


--- Code: ---http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110162282925
--- End code ---

then just copy that link and paste it into your message on the board.

The same principle works for the other ebay country sites too, e.g. ebay.com, ebay.de, ebay.com.au, etc - just change the .co.uk part of the domain name to the ebay country site you are using.

If you want to link to a listings by a particular seller, then use this format - changing the last section shown here as xxxxx to the ebay seller name:

--- Code: ---http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/xxxxx
--- End code ---
- e.g.
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/book-seek.com links to items for sale by Angela.

Simple isn't it?  8)

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