{"id":253,"date":"2021-05-08T21:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T21:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valleau.art\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2021-05-08T21:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T21:35:42","slug":"ebay-there-was-an-error-in-your-input-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/ebay-there-was-an-error-in-your-input-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"ebay: There was an error in your input. Solution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was plagued by this suddenly a few days ago, and now I think I&#8217;ve figured it out.<\/p>\n<p>It began when I signed into myEbay and got:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was an error in your input. Please go back and ensure that all fields are properly filled in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing I could do, over several days, including calling eBay support, got me around this issue. The best eBay support could come up with was &#8220;use the Canadian service&#8221; &#8211; which curiously worked.<\/p>\n<p>A check of the web shows this problem isn&#8217;t rare.<\/p>\n<p>It also shows that it&#8217;s a generic PHP reply, and while it happens on eBay most frequently, it isn&#8217;t limited to them. That got me thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I went back to eBay.com (which had been giving me the errors) but instead of going to the sign-in page, I just entered &#8220;ebay.com&#8221; in the URL field&#8230; and bingo! \u00a0I was in.<\/p>\n<p>And as I guessed, I was also signed in!<\/p>\n<p>I think the problem is simple: eBay failed to sign me out for some reason. The input error went away as soon as I signed out of the dot COM account, and everything is back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>So, if this is hitting you, try just visiting the site, bypassing the sign-in page. See if you can sign OUT from there.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>hth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was plagued by this suddenly a few days ago, and now I think I&#8217;ve figured it out. It began when I signed into myEbay and got: &#8220;There was an error in your input. Please go back and ensure that all fields are properly filled in.&#8221; Nothing I could do, over several days, including calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}