Posting eBay links

You may have noticed ebay urls are a bit forum unfriendly and they don’t generate a preview.

You can tidy up links from ebay by just copy/pasting the url up to and including the item number and ignoring everything from the ?xxxxxxxxxxx onwards. e.g.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/316184764496

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Good to know! :+1:

That goes for most links, 99% of the time anything after the “?” is tracking crapola.

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Are those the same as Wayne’s?

It one of the links Hoops just posted in the ebay thread, mate.

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The url query string does my nut in.

?everdecreasingwankerswantmoney=true

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Breaking link previews was how Twitler Jnr started out, so it is only a matter of time before every auction listing needs a “Roman salute”.