eBay

b86fiero · ‎02-06-2023

According to eBay item specifics it no longer exists.

I was listing some towels made in the country of Turkey. The sell your item form does not have the country of Turkey as an origin of manufacture option in item specifics. A couple of countries listed that have the beginning letters of Tur - including Turkiye (sp??) - but no Turkey.

Even though my listing photos show the manufacturer label as made in Turkey I had to list it as country unknown.

So I, the seller, look like a nitwit who doesn't know where my own merchandise came from when the information is staring me in the face.

I realize a missing country of origin is a small inconvenience given the snafu's all over the site but seriously, it's kind of an insult to the Turkish people.

ittybitnot · ‎02-06-2023

@b86fiero

Apparently that is the official spelling. Republic of Türkiye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey

maxine*j · ‎02-06-2023

eBay is just conforming to the newer version of the spelling -- Türkiye -- which is being increasing used in news media, is used now at the U.N., and so on.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states/turkiye

You won't look like a nitwit using Türkiye. You will look like a person who is up-to-date on his geopolitics.

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b86fiero · ‎02-06-2023

Wow, the things you learn on eBay! Thanks folks!!

Looks like a whole bunch of people need to relearn how to spell Turkey 🙂

reallynicestamps · ‎02-06-2023

Remember when Beijing was Peking? And Firenze was Florence?

And Kyiv was Kiev?

maxine*j · ‎02-06-2023

@b86fiero wrote:
Wow, the things you learn on eBay! Thanks folks!!

Looks like a whole bunch of people need to relearn how to spell Turkey 🙂

It will take a long time before everyone uses the Türkiye spelling, and that will still not change the spelling on the multiple millions of items already produced which are labelled or marked Turkey, like your towels. Confusion will reign for quite some time. 🙂

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reallynicestamps · ‎02-06-2023

I have some china marked Made in Nippon. Which is, I believe, the actual name of the country since that is what is on the stamps.

maxine*j · ‎02-06-2023

@reallynicestamps wrote:
Remember when Beijing was Peking? And Firenze was Florence?
And Kyiv was Kiev?

And I also remember when Kolkata was Calcutta, and Chennai was Madras, and Sri Lanka was Ceylon, and Myanmar was Burma, and Belize was the British Honduras. Bechuanaland became Botswana, and Zaire became Congo, and, in fact, there were so many name changes in Africa that I still don't have a lot of them right.

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maxine*j · ‎02-06-2023

@reallynicestamps wrote:
I have some china marked Made in Nippon. Which is, I believe, the actual name of the country since that is what is on the stamps.

Yes, to Western, especially English, ears "Nippon" evidently sounded more like "Japan," so that exonym was used outside Japan.

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soh.maryl · ‎02-06-2023

I have always thought that Nippon was Japanese. You learn something new here every day.

varebelrose · ‎02-06-2023

Nippon IS Japan, in the Japanese language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan

hartungcards · ‎02-06-2023

Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople. Been a long time gone, oh Constantinople. Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks.