Request: able to use same characters in watch list as in search query

[yukon-cornelius]

Valid names for watch lists cannot include the ampersand (&), but I can use an ampersand in auction searches (such as "H&R Block").  The result, in this particular case, is that the title of the watchlist is trimmed at the ampersand so that my saved wish list is called "H".  Please either allow reserved characters to be used in watch lists, or screen the watch list name & let the user know when a reserved character is used.  Thanks!

[eburtonlab]

@yukon-cornelius

I was able to create a custom list named "H&R Block" just now. And then I changed the name of one of my other lists to "H&R Block2":

To change the name of one of your custom lists, navigate to an item on that list, and on the top of the item page there should be a line in blue that says "Saved in your LISTNAME list  |  Remove". The LISTNAME is a link that will take you to the list in an older format. At the top of your list, there should be a colored bar that says "Items in your list" on the left, and all the way on the right you should see an "edit" link, which will give you a dropdown menu that will let you rename the list.

[berserkerplanet]

ebay does not monitor this forum

Likelihood of eBay fulfilling that request is ZERO. It would probably require completely reworking the watchlist code parsing logic (they probably used a different parsing library or even different programming language for the watchlist module, and it appears in that code & is used as a delimiter like it is in URLS to separate parameters)

A few of things you could try when naming a watchlists (I don't do watchlists so leave the testing to you):

"H&R Block"
H%20R Block

H\&R Block

H\\&R Block

H&R Block

No idea how the code will parse those escape and URL encoding sequences, but might get lucky.