Question about Items

JJWTreasures · Posts: 2

Hello All,

I have a question about the items in my store. Is there a way to order the way items display based on the description. I want my items to be listed alphabetically by description. Is this possible as I add new items.

Sorry if this topic has been answered elsewhere, I was unable to find help in this area.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
John, Owner of JJW Treasures, Your Source for Stamps

A-Better-Way · Posts: 3363

Well, when I did my video games I lined them all up before I listed them.

But that was a limited amount I had. Otherwise I just list other things in any order other than using categories to keep myself organized.

Don't over categorize, since we can make sub categories.

and no they don't have a button for that, but would be nice, if only on the admin side.

The only thing I can think of would to arrange things in larger chunks, before listing.

elpereles · Posts: 3430

MoonwishesStore · moderator Posts: 17389

We got a snail mail letter the other day and it really must have been snail mail as they had plastered about 7-8 old stamps on the envelope for the postage. Brought back fond memories. I remember stamp collecting years ago and how fascinating they were.

I hope you don't mind that I make a small suggestion and that is on the description and title. The title needs the name of the country and stamp name and the description needs the name of the country, the year printed, the price on the stamps, etc. For things like the American Museum of Natural History the names of the stamps/critters.

When our listing are loaded to google shopping, people search by titles for the most part. While I understand your wanting to use the Scott numbers as descriptors, there are several other things that are just as important to have in the title so be sure you are using all 100 characters. Not all stamp collectors may do their searches using those Scott numbers.

viewfinders · Posts: 1561

I really know nothing about stamp collecting but I can't imagine looking for stamps using only a catalogue number. Assuming that Scott isn't the only resource book for stamps, if you don't use the Scott numbers one couldn't find any stamp in you store and certainly not via an external search engine.

I would be looking for the country, denomination, person or object depicted on the stamp and condition. Not every one who collects stamps do so to get rare or valuable stamps. Some people might collect stamps from a particular country or stamps depicting transportation or famous people or animals etc. You aren't selling expensive stamps so I think you should not exclude people who collect aviation things for instance and would be interested in stamps with airplanes on them.

As it is now, your store is catering only to collectors with a Scott catalogue in their hands.

SheilaDeesPostcards · moderator Posts: 4620

A-Better-Way · Posts: 3363

On a separate note, I searched the first sentence in a description on duckduckgo.

Sure enough it found my item and was not the same words as a title. It was something random I was saying.

So I was trying to fix these ISBN google attributes on these books I have. I found out there is a 10 digit and a new 13 digit number. So rather than placing those numbers in a title, and since search engines do find the words in a description. You might keep all the stamp numbers as the first line in the description and not use up the title space, but can still be found by searching.

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For books, not stamps, I found this webpage and see what google says on the next sweep.
http://www.isbn.org/ISBN_converter

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tigercreekgifts · Posts: 6293

Yeah the only way to list in alphabetical order is to list each item in a row manually. That's easy to do if you only have a few items you want to organize like that but what if you buy more of those items to resell later? The new listings will always be placed in first position so are you gonna relist everything each time you get new stock just to keep those items in ABC order?

If you have let's say 20,000 stamps to list you could always create alphabetical subcategories & they'd automatically be sorted by ABC order....

Like by design or image....

Fruits
George Washington
Houses & Buildings
Italian Heritage
etc.

That's the only way to do it here, by category not titles & I wouldn't do that unless you have a HUGE amount of stamps to list as it's time consuming to create 50 categories if each one only has 1 or 2 items in it not to mention it makes searching harder for potential buyers.

JJWTreasures · Posts: 2

I would like to thank all of you for your input. I have made some changes based on your kind words.

Thanks Again!

Cheers,
John