How the catalog is put together
The catalog is not everything the brand has ever sold. It is what we could verify, and the difference matters enough to write down.
What gets in
- It has to be a live listing with a price and a stock state we can read.
- It has to have a colourway we can name. A listing whose colour field is blank or reads as a placeholder is left out, because a page about an unnamed set of shades is not worth building.
- It has to be the brand. Storefronts pick up neighbours, and anything not carrying the KKJ name is dropped at the sorting stage.
What gets left out
Duplicate entries for the same shade set, listings that resolve to a page we cannot read, and anything where the pack contents contradict the title. When a listing says three pack and names two shades, we do not guess the third.
How the order is decided
On the home page, products are ordered by the number of ratings on the parent listing, largest first. That is a crude measure and we are not pretending otherwise, but it is at least a number we did not choose. Inside a category the order follows the pack size and the cut, not the commission.
Ratings shown on a colourway are the ratings of the listing it belongs to, which means all colourways of one cut carry the same figure. That is how the retailer aggregates them, and inventing a per colour split would be worse than being explicit about it.
How often it changes
Prices and stock move constantly and we re-check against the source periodically rather than continuously. Treat every figure here as the reading at our last check and the retailer page as the one that counts.