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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3103524, member: 44316"]Suppose I save the URL of an coin I'm interested in and go to the URL after it closed. I have started getting</p><p><br /></p><p>"The <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/392054067133?nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l10137" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/392054067133?nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l10137" rel="nofollow">listing</a> you’re looking for is no longer available. Check out this similar item we found for you." </p><p><br /></p><p>I am getting this sort of message the same day the coin closed. I want to see how much it went for. To do that, I must click on the word "listing" in their notification that the URL I wanted and entered is not the one I was sent to. I guess that one-step detour isn't too hard, but I preferred it when they just listed "similar" items right there in the </p><p>"More chances to get what you want" line of images.</p><p><br /></p><p>The world is so incredibly commercial. I am already on their site. They are already showing me (on the lower left) items I have looked at recently as well as "similar" items and a whole line (expandable to two, sometimes) of items with the excuse:</p><p>"People who viewed this item also viewed..."</p><p><br /></p><p>I feel battered by the insistence that I should be looking at more and more coins to potentially buy. I guess that's simply business and good advertising, but it is tiring.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3103524, member: 44316"]Suppose I save the URL of an coin I'm interested in and go to the URL after it closed. I have started getting "The [URL='https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/392054067133?nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l10137']listing[/URL] you’re looking for is no longer available. Check out this similar item we found for you." I am getting this sort of message the same day the coin closed. I want to see how much it went for. To do that, I must click on the word "listing" in their notification that the URL I wanted and entered is not the one I was sent to. I guess that one-step detour isn't too hard, but I preferred it when they just listed "similar" items right there in the "More chances to get what you want" line of images. The world is so incredibly commercial. I am already on their site. They are already showing me (on the lower left) items I have looked at recently as well as "similar" items and a whole line (expandable to two, sometimes) of items with the excuse: "People who viewed this item also viewed..." I feel battered by the insistence that I should be looking at more and more coins to potentially buy. I guess that's simply business and good advertising, but it is tiring.[/QUOTE]
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