link to ebay opens up playstore.....

[Alexp08]

so my friend sent me a link to ebay and it keeps opening up the playstore, i have to ebay app downloaded. But it continues to open up the playstore and take me to the ebay page in there, i chose "open" to open the ebay app but it just opens up ebay, dosnt take me to the page. i tried going into the settings/apps and deleting the "defaults" for messaging and it didnt help, and it says that there is no "defaults" for the ebay app or playstore.. please help as it is very annoying. oh i have a sony ion. thanks

 

[lunatic59]

Are you sure the link is for an eBay item and to the eBay app itself?

 

[Alexp08]

yup, to the item. not the app

 

[lunatic59]

Hmmm. I am not familiar with the eBay app specifically, but you might be able to open the link in a browser in you go to menu>settings>apps> and find the eBay app, click on it and clear defaults. This way when you click on an eBay link it would give you option how to open it. Mind you, i don't have the app so I'm just guessing here.

 

[Alexp08]

i tried that, the "clear defaults" is grayed out. like there is none. i even tried uninstalling the app and it still takes me to the play store.

 

[lunatic59]

What kind of link is it? A standard URL?

 

[NS906]

My husband and I have the same issue. He shares an item via text, directly from the item in the ebay app. Example below.

Check out this item I found on eBay: http://pages.ebay.com/motors/link/?nav=item.view&id=281163698940&alt=web

Also, I'm pretty positive this has happened with other links/apps. Unfortunately, neither of us can remember.

 

[boyo1991]

My husband and I have the same issue. He shares an item via text, directly from the item in the ebay app. Example below.

Check out this item I found on eBay: http://pages.ebay.com/motors/link/?nav=item.view&id=281163698940&alt=web

Also, I'm pretty positive this has happened with other links/apps. Unfortunately, neither of us can remember.

Yeah after trying your link it does it to me too.. maybe selecting the id alone and search that in ebay?

 

[NS906]

Yeah after trying your link it does it to me too.. maybe selecting the id alone and search that in ebay?

That's what we have to do, might as well search it myself. It does the same thing if we share via NFC. This didn't always happen either. My only thought is that something changed when it upgraded to Lollipop.