ComicLink needs to clean up its database 0

[DavidTheDavid]

Hi, my name is David and I use ComicLink. Too much.

 

But they have all these obsolete books, and it's obvious. How is it obvious? Many books no longer have listing dates. Almost always, those books are no longer available and sellers don't respond to bids.

 

ComicLink could easily purge these books by running a -script to remove books that lack a public insertion date. To test this, they simply take a snapshot of their database (sans photos), test the -script, and boom, we know exactly which books are available.

 

Serious sellers who might be affected will relist their books, but all the garbage will be gone. The sales data isn't public anyway, and CLink would retain it.

 

It would make for a much better buyer/seller experience.

 

CLink, time to get rid of the false advertising!

 

Also, I love you. Why haven't you called me?

[comicquant]

I think they're keeping them for a couple of reasons. First, the obsolete books give the appearance of them having a much larger selection than they really do. Second, they probably think its helping them with search rank. But they're actually hurting themselves by leaving stale content. By the looks of the site they're working with a decade old mentality of how a site should function.

[miraclemet]

I never bother looking at their sales side... I've missed out on a book or two over the years, but I just think of all the time I saved trying to search thru all the bad listings....

[october]

I filter by new listings and just look at the last few days of uploads. Saves me a lot of trouble.

[miraclemet]

Sites that dont let me just look at GA books are further down on my list of sites I browse....

[Foley]

They also need a function to track lots IMO

[paperheart]

I filter by new listings and just look at the last few days of uploads. Saves me a lot of trouble.

 

after the last "upgrade" and i couldn't filter by publisher i stopped looking

[Dick Pontoon]

They also need a function to track lots IMO

 

They have one! You can even still access the auction after it's over.

 

All you have to do is place a bid.

[october]

Sites that dont let me just look at GA books are further down on my list of sites I browse....

 

I agree. Filtering by age is top of my list.

[lizards2]

Hi, my name is David

 

I thought it was something else? :shrug:

[Rip]

Very correct, I see many books clearly not for sale on the site.

I own some of them.

[nearmint]

I filter by new listings and just look at the last few days of uploads. Saves me a lot of trouble.

 

I do the same.

[DavidTheDavid]

I often go and look at the new exchange offerings, the sometimes I want to do a search. And that can be a hassle

[Sqeggs]

I filter by new listings and just look at the last few days of uploads. Saves me a lot of trouble.

 

I do the same.

 

Me, too.

[Shaolingoat]

Very correct, I see many books clearly not for sale on the site.

I own some of them.

 

Agreed. It would be nice if the ability to exclude the "sale pending" listings was the default as opposed to a function of the advanced search.

[1950's war comics]

they have not had any new listings i was interested in purchasing in two years........