[ARC5] Ebay Citations: Item number only -OR- Full URL ?

[Peter Gottlieb]

My job requires way more than 8 hours a day and many days I don't get the luxury 
of sitting in front of a personal computer.  What I do get is various bits of a 
a few minutes here and there where I can check messages on my phone.  As it is 
so unwieldy to select, copy, change apps then paste and search I simply won't 
take a look at an ebay item where only the item number is given.  A link, on the 
other hand, is trivial to check out and the risk is extremely low.  When I am at 
my computer, I have learned to simply examine links before clicking them and 
have never had a problem.

Peter
KB2VTL

On 1/8/2016 8:58 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>
>> Clicking even a sanitized URL takes several seconds to start a new browser
>> instance from cold.  It only takes one mouse click to switch to eBay and
>> two if I don't happen to be already logged in, and a second (or third) one
>> to get into the Search field followed by a ^V.
> You left out the step for highlighting and copying the item number from the original text AND the step to paste that into the search box.  Obviously, the process completely described is much more convoluted and lengthy than the simple URL click I describe.
>
>> Clicking on URL's sent through a reflector or BB can be dangerous,
>> and I seldom take the risk.
> That is an issue with ALL URLs cited in a posting.  But that is a very frequently used and valuable process for this list...one I would not seek to banish.  With respect to the danger it presents, that pales into absolute nothing compared to that from opening attachments...a popular recently-added feature here on arc5.
>
> I suspect we may have a difference of attitude toward this issue! :-)
>
> Mike / KK5F
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