In short
ToySetFox orders products and prices by fixed rules that apply to everyone. Nobody can buy a higher place: brands and shops do not pay for their position in a list.
Every visitor sees the same order. We do not use personal data or pages you visited before to change it.
Categories and brands: ‘Relevance’
This is the default order. There are two rules, in order of weight. The second rule only counts when the first makes no difference:
- Sets for which the manufacturer publishes a recommended price come first.
- Among those, sets are listed alphabetically (A–Z) by set name.
Popularity, sales and clicks play no part in this order. Filtering by brand only changes which sets you see, not their order.
Choosing another order
With ‘Sort by’ you can choose a different order:
- ‘Price: low to high’ and ‘Price: high to low’: by the lowest current shop price (the top offer of the set’s shop list that is not sold out); this is the price shown with the set in the list. Without a current shop offer, the manufacturer’s recommended price counts instead, and the list then says so. Sets without a price come last; equal prices are listed A–Z.
- ‘Popular’: what the most different visitors viewed over the past weeks. A click through to a shop counts twice as much as a visit, and recent days weigh more: each week counts half as much as the week after it. We count anonymously and without cookies (see the privacy statement). Sets we know nothing about yet follow in the ‘Relevance’ order. Payments and commission play no part.
- ‘Newest in the catalogue’: what was added to ToySetFox most recently comes first. This says nothing about when a set came onto the market.
- ‘Name (A–Z)’: alphabetically by set name.
Search
Your words are searched in the name, brand, category, versions and materials, and are understood in other languages too (‘knight’, ‘ridder’ and ‘Ritter’ all find knights). A set must match all your words. The order, by weight:
- Sets whose name or brand is exactly your search.
- Sets of a brand you name, or whose name starts with one of your words.
- Sets in the category your word names (for ‘knight’: knights and fantasy).
- Other sets with all your words; the better the match, especially in the name, the higher.
- Sets that only resemble what you typed (after a typo).
At an equal place, sets with a photo and a recommended price come first, then A–Z. When your word finds nothing, we show the results for the closest word and say so.
Shop prices on a product page
For each version we only show shops that sell exactly that version (recognised by its EAN code or the manufacturer’s item number). The order, again in order of weight:
- Shops that do not have the set in stock come last.
- Shops that do not state their shipping costs come after shops whose total price we know.
- Among those, the lowest total price comes first: the price including VAT plus shipping.
- On an equal total price, the price we checked most recently comes first.
A price we have not been able to check for more than 48 hours is not shown. Every price says when we last checked it. The manufacturer’s recommended price is shown separately, as ‘Recommended price’, and is never a shop offer.
Advertising and commission
There are no paid placements on ToySetFox at the moment. If there are in future, every paid placement will be clearly marked ‘Advertisement’, with who paid for it when we know. An advertisement is kept apart from the normal order and never changes it.
ToySetFox may receive a commission through links to shops when you buy something. That commission plays no part in the order: a shop that pays more is not listed higher.
Price drops
When we say a price has dropped, we always compare it with the lowest price of the same shop in the 30 days before the new price began. If we do not know all of those 30 days, we do not report a price drop. A ‘was’ price stated by the shop itself, or the manufacturer’s price, is never used for this.
Trending now
The ‘Trending now’ row on the home page and in categories shows products that clearly more different visitors viewed in the last 7 days than the 4 weeks before would lead us to expect. A product needs at least 5 visitors a week to qualify, and the row only appears when at least 4 products do. Payments and commission play no part here either.
Questions
Think something about the order is not right? Email [email protected].