A plea to sellers

Thomas Ligammare

Sellers,
Can you please make an effort to properly categorize your listings? It's extremely difficult to shop gold and platinum age books when they are littered with modern age, It just makes me go elsewhere.

Thank you for the consideration.

Ted Tyszka

+1

alex turbin

um you mean don't list them by title? I always list by title and not age.

Ted Tyszka

I don't think he is referring to the listing titles or descriptions. When a seller lists a book, they select a Category (time period) in which to place it.


When a buyer does a search for, say, Silver Age Superman books, they use the search term "Superman," and then filter the results to show only books categorized as Silver Age.



The problem is, many dealers either are oblivious to to the fact they are posting in the wrong category, or else they are simply, for god-knows-why deliberately posting them in the wrong category. Thus your search results, ostensibly filtered to show only Silver Age books are littered with Bronze, Copper, and Modern Age books, as shown in the next screen shots.

Only ONE book on the whole first page of this Silver Age search is actually a Silver Age book.

Mark Rosenberg

We should be able to automatically fix this, for all listings, regardless of what the Seller entered. Very soon...

Kyle Kruser

Usually it recognizes it for me. I always check when posting something it didn't recognize because it it annoying when stuff is wrong

Fred Miller

I've been away for awhile and decided to spend some time here looking for Silver Age Marvel comics. I've always enjoyed searching on Hip Comics because of the filters. To my complete annoyance I have found that the old ebay tricks of working around the filters seems to have caught on here. What a shame. I don't like to waste my time. Search results , show every age now because a seller skips the filters when he's creating the listing and types in "1964" "1968" etc. No sale. I'm out.

Dave Bennett

All of my Silver Age Marvels are guaranteed correctly categorized!

https://www.hipcomic.com/store/bennys-comics-corner/?sort=started_desc&show=store&parent_id=109&item_specifics_02_publisher[]=marvel

Fred Miller

Thanks Dave, You've got some good comics there. a couple that I am considering. I'll be in touch.

Dave Bennett

Fred Miller

too bad Hip Comics is allowing this to happen. I clicked all the filters to narrow my search down to silver age marvel, and got results showing everything because sellers are typing in shit like (1968 series, etc) I lasted 5 minutes. No patience for scrolling past junk.

charles levey

I agree. I will come back to Hip Comics when that’s fixed. A shame since there are great sellers here but it’s a search waste of time

Dave Bennett

Charles L. -- you have to realize that this is a failure that has nothing to do with HipComic. HC has an amazing system in place that can correctly identify and categorize a comic simply from a cover image, but there are lazy or indifferent sellers that just don't use this free system . . or ANY system, other than ignoring it . . and wind up having their items mistakenly show up in Buyers' searches.

Frustrating, I know . . but NOT Hipcomic's fault!