eBay Stores: off-brand Graphic
Is it just me, or does this graphic look incredibly off-brand for eBay? Saw this when I was looking at another seller's store and visited their Sale tab. It's eBay's graphic, not the seller's.
So weird.
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Is it just me, or does this graphic look incredibly off-brand for eBay? Saw this when I was looking at another seller's store and visited their Sale tab. It's eBay's graphic, not the seller's.
So weird.
simply-the-best-for-you
·1 year agoI haven't seen it in the wild, but that would've thrown me for a loop. I â¤ï¸ Amazon's dogs!
dhbookds
·1 year agoWhat I see is something that is pretty standard on the web these days - using a meme to indicate that an empty page is not a problem with the site, but rather is rendering as expected.
lol.....I'm not "visual"......takes me forever to figure out icons...... I just wonder, considering ebay experiences, how many think the upside down aspect is just another ebay error...........
wastingtime101
OP1 year agoI think her hair makes it pretty clear she's upside down, the graphic isn't.
To be clear, I wasn't saying it's a bad graphic, just struck me as oddly off-brand compared to what we're used to seeing.
dhbookds
·1 year agonot arguing with you......I thought it was accidentally upside down.........but I'm an old fogey
wastingtime101
OP1 year agoOh yeah, I wasn't arguing - just saying how it looked to me. Your post saying people would think it's an error actually made me laugh. 😆
fern*wood
·1 year agoI’m looking at this on a small device and I thought she was holding her nose.
wastingtime101
OP1 year agohaha - between you and dhbookds you guys are making me laugh at this image.
I want to know where she is. Is she in the ceiling popping through a hole? Is she saluting someone or looking into the distance? Why not have her standing on the ground with some binoculars?
Is she looking in from another dimension? Maybe she's searching for Bettina Miller.
Did anybody else spot the graphical error or is it just me? I'll hide the answer behind a spoiler in case you want to examine the image and try to figure it out for yourself.
Edit to add: now that I spotted the error, it's all I can see when I look at the image.
inhawaii
·1 year agoI made one for ebay if they want to use it.
It's for when there is a technical problem.
"Ooops. There is a technical error. Our IT department is hard at work on the problem."
valueaddedresource
·1 year ago@wastingtime101 I agree it's odd, thought the same thing about this similar artwork occasionally shown in Seller Hub too.
Definitely jarring and off brand from what we're used to seeing.
wastingtime101
OP1 year agoOK you prompted me to do a search. The image of the lady in orange pants is from eBay - I saw it on one of the international eBay community forums. Here on .com I'm still seeing the orange parka kid.
Between this image and the one you posted @valueaddedresource , it looks like eBay is in the process of rolling out these new graphics.
The "no sale here" graphic wouldn't have read as off-brand to me if they changed all the other graphics at the same time, because at least then the new design would look intentional. But as I said, I still see the orange parka kid, the question mark product collage, etc which makes the "no sale here" graphic look out of place.
wastingtime101
OP1 year agoIf they're making the switch everywhere eventually, I guess I won't be able to pull out this one much longer.
valueaddedresource
·1 year ago@wastingtime101 orange parka kid will always live on in our hearts and minds...so I don't think this one will ever get old. 😂
wastingtime101
OP1 year agoI found orange pants lady with tube TV and antennae on the .com site - she appears when you view a listing that's been pulled.
Check it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/375526383433
inhawaii
·1 year agoOur seller fees hard at work.......
robbie31415
·1 year agoSomeone mentioned what i feel.
Ebays attempt to transform their image to appeal to younger audiences.
meme6253
·1 year agoOdd one for sure, Probably means looking for a discount or sale.
mcdougle4248
·1 year agoI saw this for the first time this morning. I agree it is weird.
I will always have sale items to ensure my buyers do not have to look at that!
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·1 year agoMeet the new Head of ebay's Art Department: Generative AI.
Well, actually, I don't know what's going on here, but I suspect ebay is trying to use imagery that will "resonate" with the "younger crowd". I wouldn't be surprised if we start to see more of this.
luckythewinner
·1 year agoWhat I see is something that is pretty standard on the web these days - using a meme to indicate that an empty page is not a problem with the site, but rather is rendering as expected.
I've seen many similar graphics for 403 'unauthorized' errors. A referee holding up a red card; a wizard saying 'Thou shalt not pass', a zebra blowing a whistle (the 'referee') , etc.
dhbookds
·1 year agolooks really odd to me!
chapeau-noir
·1 year agoeBay can be such a Try Hard.
slippinjimmy
·1 year agoby off-brand do you mean it's not a stock photo of someone smiling excessively?
The bargains are usually down in the basement.....
If you keep them in the attic then.....
No Sale Items Up Here!
wastingtime101
OP1 year agoWe usually get photos of real objects/people, not drawings.
Like the orange parka kid (we looked everywhere), the product collage question mark (it's not you it's us), collage of sneakers (sneakercon).
I guess we've had a sketch on the shipping label error page for a while, but it's not the same graphic style; it's a shipping box outline with frown face that says something went wrong.
I vaguely remember seeing a new we looked everywhere page recently. Instead of the orange parka kid it was a drawing of a lady wearing orange pants holding something like a vacuum or an antennae? Am I imagining that was on eBay or was that on a different site? It wasn't on Amazon; they still use dogs.
slippinjimmy
·1 year agoI just noticed this one on Outlook (desktop/online version), it has a similar feel