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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 10411112, member: 79705&quot;]If nothing has changed on the forum settings, then it&#039;s eBay re-routing links. Like how people used to stop &quot;hot linking&quot; (linking to someone else&#039;s photos on their site and stealing their bandwidth) in the ye old World Wide Web days.</p><p><br /></p><p>If someone posts the link directly, then you can right-click (or hold-click on your phone) and choose &quot;Copy Link Text&quot; (NOT Link URL), or highlight it and click &quot;Copy.&quot; Test on this:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/326010255427" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/326010255427" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/326010255427</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Then paste into your web browser and hit enter.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you do click the link you&#039;ll get a long string url which causes the dot, and you can edit it in your browser to remove anything that doesn&#039;t look like the simple link above. Then hit enter. The long string looks like this:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?campid=5337485078&amp;toolid=10001&amp;mpre=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?campid=5337485078&amp;toolid=10001&amp;mpre=" rel="nofollow">https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?campid=5337485078&amp;toolid=10001&amp;mpre=</a></b><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/326010255427" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/326010255427" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/326010255427</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In this case, remove everything that&#039;s bolded. Some links also have extra garbage on the end, so you&#039;d have to remove everything after the item number or search keywords (if it was an ebay search linked) as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re posting a link, the best thing to do is post it as text, and to do that you have to remove the <a href="http://www" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www" rel="nofollow">http://www</a> or the forum will automatically make it a clickable link. Then people copy paste it. Like so:</p><p><br /></p><p>ebay.com/itm/326010255427[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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