I have over a million postcards in my inventory but only a handful of topographical postcards. This is one of them.
The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition of topographical: "The art or practice of graphical delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made feature of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations." The Oxford English Dictionary definition of topographical: "The arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area. 'the topography of an island'"
The above postcard is a real photo postcard, so eBay would place it in the new "Not-Topographical Postcards" category.
eBay should either do away with the 2 postcard subcategories (Topographical Postcards and Non-Topographical Postcards) or change them to new titles such as Views and Topics. Note that Topographical and Non-Topographical are mutually exclusive, implying an item belongs in one or the other, not in both. Views and Topics are NOT mutually exclusive, so a RPPC of the Statue of Liberty could be listed as both a View (New York City) and a Topic (RPPC).
@coffeebean832 wrote:
@topnotchtomes wrote:
As of 6:15 Central time, ebay standard envelope is still grayed out and unusable for shipping.
Hey @coffeebean832! I appreciate you and other letting us know this was still an issue. We let them know and as you guessed, this is similar to last time. They've said that everything should return to normal once the item specifics/category updates complete. We appreciate your continued patience during this process!
@collectfest wrote:The two categories are topographical and non topographical.
A customer comes to me at a show, do you have postcards separated by state or town? Any Santa postcards? Any real photo postcards?
@collectfest I don't know anything about postcards, but I don't understand why you say you can't separate by states. There are many categories in postcards for buyers. Maybe you all are talking about seller's options to list?
@max-list wrote:
@collectfest wrote:The two categories are topographical and non topographical.
A customer comes to me at a show, do you have postcards separated by state or town? Any Santa postcards? Any real photo postcards?
@collectfest I don't know anything about postcards, but I don't understand why you say you can't separate by states. There are many categories in postcards for buyers. Maybe you all are talking about seller's options to list?
much more cumbersome to me. Only been dealing with them 25 years on here. I just go to the shows. Not going to banter about it. Glad that format works for you.
@max-list wrote:
@collectfest wrote:The two categories are topographical and non topographical.
A customer comes to me at a show, do you have postcards separated by state or town? Any Santa postcards? Any real photo postcards?
@collectfest I don't know anything about postcards, but I don't understand why you say you can't separate by states. There are many categories in postcards for buyers. Maybe you all are talking about seller's options to list?
In addition, those dropdowns don't appear on my page. Just checked. Another glitch I suppose. A bunch of mumble jumble on the left side. Just have to click a slew of boxes, gee whiz my wrist hurts and eye hurt looking at it all, lol
@coffeebean832 wrote:
velvet@ebay wrote:
@coffeebean832 wrote:
@topnotchtomes wrote:
As of 6:15 Central time, ebay standard envelope is still grayed out and unusable for shipping.
Hey @coffeebean832! I appreciate you and other letting us know this was still an issue. We let them know and as you guessed, this is similar to last time. They've said that everything should return to normal once the item specifics/category updates complete. We appreciate your continued patience during this process!
velvet@ebay- Is eBay offering a resolution for all these sellers that were impacted without warning? Anywhere from 2 days to a week without being able to access Standard Envelope will really rack up shipping fees. Will sellers be compensated for the cost difference of shipping tracked packages since eBay never gave advance notice of this shipping problem?
Hey @coffeebean832! These started working again yesterday for listings that meet the established criteria. Are you still seeing them greyed out?
@coffeebean832 wrote:
velvet@ebay- Adding to the above post-
Has eBay sent out any communication to sellers with listings in the postcard category and alerted them that shipping options will be affected- giving them the option to use vacation mode or update their listings with alternate shipping?
I can answer that one for myself because I have some postcards listed on one account- the answer is no. eBay has left sellers in the dark again.
@coffeebean832 I know this was frustrating and I've replied to your message on another thread about this as well, but to follow-up here, the issue was found and fixed yesterday for listings that meet the established criteria to use these labels.
I don't believe we will be sending an email out, but we are making updates with pertinent info to the original post found here, so that will be a good place for members to check-in on over the coming days.
I just sent this email to sdsupport:
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I have over a million postcards in my inventory but only a handful of topographical postcards. This is one of them.
The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition of topographical: "The art or practice of graphical delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made feature of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations." The Oxford English Dictionary definition of topographical: "The arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area. 'the topography of an island'"
The above postcard is a real photo postcard, so eBay would place it in the new "Not-Topographical Postcards" category.
Here is my recommendation for what the new Postcard categories should be:
Collectibles
Postcards
Topical Postcards
View Postcards
Postcard Supplies & Accessories
Price Guides & Publications
Here are two of my reasons for the above recommendations:
1. There are over 9 million postcards and less than 1000 Supplies, so do NOT move Postcards DOWN one level, i.e. Collectibles -> Postcards & Supplies -> Postcards
2. See the definitions of Topographical above. Your use of "topographical" is wrong whereas topical is accurate. Also Topographical and Non-Topographical are mutually exclusive. However Topical and View are not mutually exclusive, so a RPPC of the Statue of Liberty could be correctly listed in Topical (i.e. RPPC) and View (i.e. NYC).
Also currently I do not see Price Guides & Publications listed under Postcards & Supplies. Instead over 100 of these items are incorrectly listed in Postcard Supplies & Accs. I think it is also wrong to use "Accs" as you should spell out Accessories so everyone knows what you mean.
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Please let them know of any changes, improvements, suggestions to make things better if there will no longer be lots of subcategories under postcards. I know in the past they fixed the Condition field when, for a while, it only accepted "New" and "Used", but gave an error message when "-" was selected.
