QC checklist

Why the angles are grouped this way

The four groups answer four different questions. Appearance covers proportion, which single close-ups destroy. Markings cover identification, which is how a size or material argument gets settled. Structure covers function, where a photo of hardware at rest proves very little. Record covers evidence, which is the group people skip and the one that decides what happens after a platform changes.

Splitting them matters because a set can look generous and still be useless. Twenty photos of the same shoe from slightly different distances cover appearance and nothing else. Three photos covering the size tag, the sole and the packaging answer more questions than the twenty do.

The four essentials

Four items are treated as essential: the full front view, the size tag, the care or material label, and the packaging as it arrived. Each one anchors a different kind of claim. Without the full view there is no baseline to compare anything against; without the size tag there is no proof of which size was picked; without the care label the quickest inconsistency check is unavailable; without the packaging photo transit damage becomes your word against a courier’s.

The tool will not produce a "ready" reading while any essential is missing, even if the total count is high. That is deliberate. A set with sixteen ticks and no packing photo will lose an argument about a crushed box, and the count would have suggested otherwise.

How to ask for what is missing

The copy button produces a short list rather than a complaint. That is not politeness for its own sake: a message naming four specific angles tends to get four specific photos, while a general request for "more photos" tends to get more of the same view.

Send it while the item is still in the warehouse. Once a parcel is submitted, the photo set is closed, and an angle nobody captured is an angle nobody can capture afterwards. That timing constraint is the reason this tool exists as a checklist rather than as advice.

What coverage does not prove

A complete set proves that the angles exist, not that the item is what the listing described. Authentication, batch quality and seller behaviour are outside what photographs establish, and this ledger makes no claim about any of them.

It also says nothing about the item in your hands. Photos are taken before packing, sometimes days before. Treat the set as a record of condition at a moment, and keep it for the moment when you need to say what that moment was.

After the set is complete

Once the angles are covered, score them. The scorecard turns the same photo set into a reading you can act on, using bands set for a short return window.