In short
BoardGameDrop orders games and prices by fixed rules that apply to everyone. Nobody can buy a higher place: publishers 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, publishers and designers: ‘Relevance’
This is the default order. There are three rules, in order of weight. A later rule only counts when the one before makes no difference:
- Games for which the publisher publishes a recommended price come first.
- Among those, games with a known designer come first.
- Among those, games are listed alphabetically (A–Z) by title.
Popularity, sales and clicks play no part in this order. Filtering by publisher or designer only changes which games 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 of any of its editions (per edition the top offer of its shop list that is not sold out); this is the price shown with the product in the list. Without a current shop offer, the lowest recommended price of any of its editions counts instead, and the list then says so. Games without a recommended 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). Games we know nothing about yet follow in the ‘Relevance’ order. Payments and commission play no part.
- ‘Newest in the catalogue’: what was added to BoardGameDrop most recently comes first. This says nothing about when a game was released.
- ‘Name (A–Z)’: alphabetically by title.
Search
Your words are searched in the title, publisher, designer, category and editions. A game must match all your words. The order, by weight:
- Games whose title, publisher or designer is exactly your search.
- Games from a publisher, designer or game series you name.
- Games in the category your word names.
- Other games with all your words; the better the match, especially in the title, the higher.
- Games that only resemble what you typed (after a typo).
At an equal place, games with a photo, a recommended price and a known designer 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 language edition we only show shops that sell exactly that edition (recognised by its EAN code or the publisher’s item number). The order, again in order of weight:
- Shops that do not have the game 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 publisher’s recommended price is shown separately and is never a shop offer.
Advertising and commission
There are no paid placements on BoardGameDrop 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.
BoardGameDrop 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 publisher’s recommended price, is never used for this.
Trending now
The ‘Trending now’ row on the home page and in categories shows games that clearly more different visitors viewed in the last 7 days than the 4 weeks before would lead us to expect. A game needs at least 5 visitors a week to qualify, and the row only appears when at least 4 games do. Payments and commission play no part here either.
Questions
Think something about the order is not right? Email [email protected].