That is useful information.
I had explicitly givien the shortest URL that I found to work. Others
pointed out that the auction NUMBER is the important piece of informtion,
and that the rest to make a URL can be recreated.
I suppose that somebody with some time on their hands could/should go
One further note on shortening eBay links. A few months ago, eBay made it
harder to use links to ended auctions, because it will (sometimes? often?)
automatically redirect you to some active auctions that it deems to be similar.
If you add
?nordt=true_cvip=true=nc
to the end, it will stay on
: Re: OT: shortening eBay URLSs (Was: IBM PT-2
Guy said
> Or to just the item number:
> 253997593352
>
> Assuming your browser is going to expand typing eb to ebay.com, then you
> enter the item number in the ebay search box.
>
> Guy
>
> At 08:45 PM 21/08/2019 -070
Guy said
> Or to just the item number:
> 253997593352
>
> Assuming your browser is going to expand typing eb to ebay.com, then you
> enter the item number in the ebay search box.
>
> Guy
>
> At 08:45 PM 21/08/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>>A small off-topic trivial tip:
>>That URL can be reduced to:
Or to just the item number:
253997593352
Assuming your browser is going to expand typing eb to ebay.com, then you enter
the item number in the ebay search box.
Guy
At 08:45 PM 21/08/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>A small off-topic trivial tip:
>That URL can be reduced to:
>
A small off-topic trivial tip:
That URL can be reduced to:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/253997593352
From 18 lines to 1, losing almost a thousand extraneous chracters.
(The stuff between itm/ and /auction number is not needed for the URL, nor
is the '?' and anything following.)
While the
