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Summary: In the eBay Q&A session, participants voiced concerns about the limited selection of font colors in eBay’s listing tool. One participant asked whether brighter colors like red or green could be offered, since the current options are perceived as dull. oskar_der_wikinger explained that eBay only allows basic formatting for reasons of consistency, accessibility, and security, and recommended submitting feedback via the form, although a change cannot be guaranteed. It was also asked whether HTML codes could be used to change colors, to which oskar_der_wikinger replied that this is possible as long as no scripting languages are used.

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Posted 5 months ago · Edited 5 months ago·Last reply 5 months ago

7 comments

rest-fest

·5 months ago

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Today's second question is less of a problem.
In the settings tool, you can choose font colors, but only to a limited extent

Can't you specify more signal colors here (e.g. bright red, green.)? Apart from the blue at the bottom left, everything has been pretty pale for years. Not everyone can still adjust that themselves in the HTML editor these days.

miriam@ebay

Admin5 months ago

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@rest-fest wrote:

Today’s second question, less of a problem.
In the settings tool you can select font colors, but only to a limited extent

Can’t more signal colors be specified here (e.g. bright red, green.)? Except for the blue at the bottom left, everything has been pretty pale for years. Not everyone can still adjust this themselves in the HTML editor today.

Hello @rest-fest and thanks for your feedback on this! We deliberately allow only basic formatting in the settings tool (bold, italics, lists, headings). Colors, underlining, and many styles have been removed for reasons of consistency, accessibility, and security.

If you’d like, you could share your opinion via the question mark at the end of the page with the settings form. I can’t promise whether that will lead to the desired change.

Best regards

Miriam

oskar_der_wikinger

·5 months ago

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@miriam@ebay wrote:
@rest-fest wrote:
Today’s second question, less of a problem.
In the settings tool you can choose font colors, but only to a limited extent

Can’t you specify more signal colors here (e.g. bright red, green.)? Apart from the blue at the bottom left, everything has been pretty pale for years. Not everyone can still adjust that themselves in the HTML editor today.
Hi @rest-fest and thanks for your feedback on this! We intentionally allow only basic formatting in the settings tool (bold, italics, lists, headings). Colors, underlining, and many styles have been removed for reasons of consistency, accessibility, and security.

If you want, you could share your opinion on this via the question mark at the end of the page with the settings form. I can’t promise you whether that will lead to the desired change.

Best regards
Miriam

On this topic, I’d like to add one more question @miriam@ebay

What happens if you use HTML code to change the color to, for example, bright red?

Does eBay intervene in such cases?

miriam@ebay

Admin5 months ago

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@oskar_der_wikinger wrote:

@miriam@ebay wrote:

@rest-fest wrote:

Today’s 2nd question, less of a problem.
In the settings tool you can choose text colors, but only to a limited extent

Can’t you specify signal colors here anymore (e.g. bright red, green.)? Apart from the blue at the bottom left, everything has been pretty pale for years. Not everyone can still adjust that themselves in the HTML editor today.

Hello @rest-fest and thanks for your feedback on this! We deliberately allow only basic formatting in the settings tool (bold, italic, lists, headings). Colors, underlining and many styles were removed for reasons of consistency, accessibility and security.

If you want, you could share your opinion on this via the question mark at the end of the page with the settings form. I can’t promise whether that will lead to the desired change.

Best regards

Miriam

On this topic, I’ll add another question @miriam@ebay

What happens if you use HTML code to change the color, e.g. bright red?

Does eBay step in and regulate that?

Not that I know of, @oskar_der_wikinger, as long as no scripting languages etc. are embedded.

Best regards

Miriam

rest-fest

·5 months ago

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Hello everyone,

for some time now I’ve been getting messages with subjects like
"5 orders delivered: List your next item"

I can’t make anything of this, and I also can’t turn off this email. What is this message supposed to tell me, and what added value, apart from spam, does eBay create with it?

nina@ebay

·5 months ago

Community Support TeamView listings

@rest-fest wrote:

Hello everyone,

for some time now, messages have been coming in with subject lines like
"5 orders delivered: List your next item"

I can't make sense of that, and I can't turn off this email either. What is this message supposed to tell me, and what added value does eBay provide with this, apart from SPAM?

Hello @rest-fest 🙂 Thank you very much for your feedback, we will be happy to pass this on to the relevant specialist department.

Kind regards,

Nina

steffi@ebay

Admin5 months ago

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