A nightmare of labels

[Barbara]

When in a stationery store looking for labels, we walk into the aisle that houses all labels and search for the size and shape we need, not in kitchen labels or gift wrap labels or business labels or beer/water labels. A "beer label" might be perfect for homemade bread, a large address label might be a bookplate, a circle sticker would be wonderful for a spice jar, and so on. People search for size, shape, and material, not some imagined use for the label unless it's their own imagined use.

An extra listing for both designers and customers where every last blasted label is listed would make life easier for everyone so they aren't forced to look all over the store and in every aisle. Am I wrong about this?

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[CrazyMermaid]

Well when a person is buying a birthday invitation, they want that mailing label and envelope right beside their invitation. It is hard to figure out the exact Zazzle category sometimes. I do know that people use my wedding labels for their labeling their soap jars. I would say collections are the answer, but some of my collections have 200 items in them. I have yet to figure out the answer to this "nightmare." Zazzle staff probably know more about this, because they can see the meta data and know how people actually use the site. 

[Barbara]

What I've thought about is just one extra listing for designers wherein all labels reside. I've thought about doing it for myself but haven't as yet because whatever seems simple at first is often described differently when halfway through.

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[Roberta]

Hi @Barbara 

Many thanks for the suggestion. I'll certainly be passing this along to the Team 📝

Roberta 🌷

[Barbara]

Thanks, @Roberta . Several years back, there were a number of complaints about this problem, but I swear, it's even worse now. I think it's caused by the fact that Zazzle categorizes most products by their use, and so it's been natural for them to do the same with stickers and labels. Also a number of years ago, we were encouraged to freely take one product and use it for something not necessarily categorized as such. Labels are a perfect item for this kind of divergence, and thus it would be so much easier for all of us if we could choose the size and shape we want and then choose the category in which it should be placed.

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