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Forum Dad
 United States
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And you're landing on ebay.ca right? |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4911 Posts |
Yuppers.
Feel free to call me Will.
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Forum Dad
United States
24192 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4911 Posts |
Feel free to call me Will.
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Moderator
United States
23522 Posts |
Bobby's so ambitious he deliberately breaks stuff just so he can fix it.  Then again, coding is like, you break something glass in your own front yard, the noise originates from the next block over and someone in the next town gets cut. |
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Forum Dad
United States
24192 Posts |
Kinda like a leaky roof, The leak can be 60 feet from where it comes in the house.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Glad it's fixed now. Why do you want it to direct to .ca instead of .com for Canadian customers? I'm just curious because it can be a little annoying when it's a non-Canadian seller who doesn't ship Internationally - in that case I need to change the extension to see the item, which is useful in cases of seeing counterfeits and such.
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Moderator
United States
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I'm just curious because it can be a little annoying when it's a non-Canadian seller who doesn't ship Internationally I'm not an authority, but shouldn't it be less likely for you - a Canadian - to run into that kind of seller on .ca instead of .com? |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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What I mean is, if someone posts a thread here in CCF pointing to a counterfeit coin on ebay, I'll often click the link to see it for educational purposes, but if the seller doesn't ship to Canada, it redirects and I don't see the coin unless I change the extension from .ca to .com. I know some people don't know to change it, so they never see it (I can't find an example because most of these disappear, thankfully, because they are pulled from ebay). Another example is if I click the ebay icon link on a member's post to see what they have for sale, I don't see anything for sale if they don't ship to Canada. Not a big deal because I can't buy them anyway, but sometimes it's nice to see what they have. It doesn't really bother me one way or the other, I'm just curious as to whether there's a reason behind defaulting the extension to .ca. |
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Forum Dad
United States
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I stopped messing with the landing pages from forum links a while ago, just leaving whatever is posted is the best solution overall. There is no perfect solution.
The links on other areas of the site are coded deliberately to only show items that are available to the visitor, so changing the landing site makes sense. I've always thought that was the best way since showing a visitor a page of items that they can't buy anyway would be frustrating.
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Moderator
United States
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Why did I not figure you'd be working to that level of granularity?  |
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Forum Dad
United States
24192 Posts |
It's something I wanted to do a long time ago, but there is a cost and work involved. I bought a subscription to a complete IP to Country Database. But I took it one step further and actually import it into our DB locally instead of just using theirs. I hate depending on other people when it can be done in-house.
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