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I'm posting this from a Mac notebook using safari that I'm working on for a friend.

Using any of my Windows PC, 7 or XP, on multiple PCs using either Chrome, latest version, or IE, 8 and 9, When I click on almost anything, like the title box or text entry box or the Submit Reply button (or just about anything), I get taken to a ebay auction for a Leica lens.

 

Is anyone else seeing this.

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I'm glad somebody else is having the same problem, too. I find that quick reply works OK, but regular reply or new post do not. I've tried latest Safari, Chrome, and IE on two different PCs, one running XP and the other Windows 7. Safari on iPad2 doesn't work either. I've purged cache on the PCs and rebooted them with no improvement.

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Just tried again with the Post Reply button and as soon as I clicked in the text area I got the ebay auction.

Funny but that ebay auction shows up in a second tab. I'm using Chrome, my default browser everywhere, but earlier I tried IE 8, on XP, and then 9, on 7, and the POPup blocker kicked in.

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yep... same. Have been redirected to Ebay numerous times. I reported the Ebay auction as fraudulent.

Got you PM. Saw others that have been there forever so I figured I'd delete them.

Guess what, Got taken to the auction, or is that Cleaners.

 

PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP

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No problem here.

 

It's just a software glitch that will soon be fixed.

 

Are any of those suffering, subscribers?

 

Please read Dave's post above, subscribing the cause of the issue.

 

Mac OS X 10.7 with Safari 5.1.1 here - same issue, the whole forum frame acts as a link to the eBay auction, basically opening the auction site, when clicking ANYWHERE in the frame, including reply field, etc …

 

Nothing to do with subscriptions, just a fault in the website.

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Help! Forum just about unusable. I have only just been able to post this after half a dozen attempts. "Software glitches" seem to be par for the course these days -- "snafus" is an apt term -- yet they have the power to derail businesses and create mayhem. Please fix asap!

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I suspect that the problem only affects non-subscribers. Presumably subscribers don't get the eBay ads and, therefore, don't have a problem with the missing </a> tag?

 

I don't get eBay ads, as a subscriber, so I have not seen a problem. I use the "Plain Vanilla" skin.

 

This Forum isn't a matter of life and death, and I am sure Andreas will fix things as soon as he can.

 

If you want to see how to completely ruin a business by diabolical web design work, have a look at what they have done to AirMiles.co.uk .

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SORRY - my fault!

 

The reason were three missing characters as djcphoto described:

 

In the Leica Deals 'subnav' div, there is an unclosed '' tag that is effectively making the entire page a link to that auction.

 

This made the whole forum page a link - and send my eBay click statistics through the ceiling (thanks for that...)

 

Now everything should be OK again...

 

Andreas

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