wheelman@nac.net writes:
> I notice that many who place ebay links to point to a bike on this forum
> unknowingly create an invalid link. Somehow just before the item number
> inside that link there appears the number and letter 3D which renders it
> invalid. Once I click on the link and get the ebay invalid item message I
> then go to the URL and remove the 3D and hit enter and the bike now shows
> up. Does anyone have an idea what is happening to cause this. It is more
> an annoyance then anything else but I'll bet some of you give up on the
> link and move on missing some great bikes.
The two characters "3D" is hexadecimal for the ascii value 61, which is an equal sign. The string "%3D" is the way an equal sign ("=") is encoded in URLs. Some mail clients can't display MIME messages well. MIME messages often have an equal sign at line breaks, and maybe your mail client is displaying the line-break character in hex.
Maybe that helps?
Morgan Fletcher
Oakland, CA