OK, I've tried to be patient with eBay in all the drastic changes they've been making, but this is just too much! Please, what's this with the iconic eBay store "red door", that has suddenly become a BLUE door on listing pages on .com???? Which bubble-brained dunderhead thought up this idea? My store icon suddenly became blue today, and now so am I.
The "red door" has been the icon to click forever on eBay -- why in heaven's name change it now? Now it just more or less melds in with all the other blue ink on eBay's pages. Any psychologist, any artist, any marketing professional, will tell you red stands out and gets attention. Blue does not. (As an aside, I recall seeing insurance stats about red cars being less likely to be in a fender-bender because they're more noticeable than other colours).
I noticed this the other day when I checked one of my listings on .com and thought it was a glitch -- there are so many these days it's hard to tell what it deliberate and what's a bug. Please, please, PLEASE, eBay, tell us this is a bug, and not some deliberate ploy to keep stores' visibility lower (now that you've given us all free listings!).
P.S. I know I'm going to probably get all sorts of backlash here for being over-sensitive, over-critical, over-stressed, over-anxious about the small stuff, and that life does go on (:-O), etc., but this is just too much! How would hockey fans like their shirt colours to suddenly be changed (or remember how much brouhaha there was over changing the Canadian flag?). You just don't mess with an icon.
Bad eBay, naughty boys (and girls) in San Jose who just can't stop playing with this site like it's a computer game ...
