You see that little orange bell lit up in the upper-right-hand corner of your screen...
And it turns out all it is is a reminder about something on your Watch List? 
@livadia wrote:You see that little orange bell lit up in the upper-right-hand corner of your screen...
And it turns out all it is is a reminder about something on your Watch List?
Hi livadia, my bell is gray. How did you get yours to be orange?
What I don't like is that red envelope (next to the red bell) alerting me that I have an unread message but I don't. I read it already and can seem to get rid of it.
Hey Liv - did you ever see that episode of Will and Grace where Grace & Jack wanted to go to Antiques Roadshow just so they could make fun of peoples' over-exaggerated facial expressions? First they think the appraiser will tell them their item is worth tons of $$, then they find out it's worth nothing? That's what it's like when you see the alert and it ends up not being a sale.
@rainbowcolorz wrote:
@livadia wrote:You see that little orange bell lit up in the upper-right-hand corner of your screen...
And it turns out all it is is a reminder about something on your Watch List?
Hi livadia, my bell is gray. How did you get yours to be orange?
What I don't like is that red envelope (next to the red bell) alerting me that I have an unread message but I don't. I read it already and can seem to get rid of it.
@rainbowcolorz You might be confusing the eBay alerts with the Community alerts. They both have bells. When you get a notification in Community (like you will because I tagged you on this post) the bell will turn red.
The eBay alert is a smaller bell on top of the page (which you may not see from Community depending on whether you are zoomed in on view or not but you can see it on the top right if you go to eBay.com) and it turns orange when there's an alert for a sale, watched item ending, new message, etc. Though it's fairly unreliable.
If the mail notification on Community is red, open the mail page then near the top right you'll see a blue button that says "new message" and next to that you'll see "options" - go to the options and select "mark all as read".
@copper.boom wrote:
@rainbowcolorz wrote:
@livadia wrote:You see that little orange bell lit up in the upper-right-hand corner of your screen...
And it turns out all it is is a reminder about something on your Watch List?
Hi livadia, my bell is gray. How did you get yours to be orange?
What I don't like is that red envelope (next to the red bell) alerting me that I have an unread message but I don't. I read it already and can seem to get rid of it.
@rainbowcolorz You might be confusing the eBay alerts with the Community alerts. They both have bells. When you get a notification in Community (like you will because I tagged you on this post) the bell will turn red.
The eBay alert is a smaller bell on top of the page (which you may not see from Community depending on whether you are zoomed in on view or not but you can see it on the top right if you go to eBay.com) and it turns orange when there's an alert for a sale, watched item ending, new message, etc. Though it's fairly unreliable.
If the mail notification on Community is red, open the mail page then near the top right you'll see a blue button that says "new message" and next to that you'll see "options" - go to the options and select "mark all as read".
Ohhhhhhhh, OK. Thank you very much!!!
livadia wrote:You see that little orange bell lit up in the upper-right-hand corner of your screen...
And it turns out all it is is a reminder about something on your Watch List?
I always seem to have so many things on my watch lists that the bell is usually orange many times a day. But I do have my email up all day long too, so immediately glance over to see whether I have two notifications of new emails... which usually is the sale and the payment. But sometimes it's a couple of 'Junk Mail' messages, so yeah.. that's disappointing. 
mistwomandancing wrote:I always seem to have so many things on my watch lists that the bell is usually orange many times a day. But I do have my email up all day long too, so immediately glance over to see whether I have two notifications of new emails... which usually is the sale and the payment. But sometimes it's a couple of 'Junk Mail' messages, so yeah.. that's disappointing.
That's just what I said! Liv and I created similar threads at the same time:
http://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Any-one-else-New-e-mail-count-of-2/m-p/27026449#M970776
@copper.boom wrote:Hey Liv - did you ever see that episode of Will and Grace where Grace & Jack wanted to go to Antiques Roadshow just so they could make fun of peoples' over-exaggerated facial expressions? First they think the appraiser will tell them their item is worth tons of $$, then they find out it's worth nothing? That's what it's like when you see the alert and it ends up not being a sale.
LOL @copper.boom. Yep, that's it all right!
