I was going to design some sweatshirts and went to the search bar to do a little research. Just for kicks I put in “Football Sweatshirts”. Nothing even close to a football sweatshirt showed up. There were plenty of non-related sweatshirt designs that showed up at the top - most had uploaded cover photos ;-). https://www.zazzle.com/s/football+sweatshirts
Then I typed in Tennis sweatshirts - and there was one on the first page - otherwise it was mostly Sport-Tek T-shirts. Then I searched for Tennis hoodie and that search worked well.
Should I be using different words to search for sweatshirts? Or should I avoid designing on sweatshirts?
Using hoody instead of sweatshirt brings up the expected results. But even if it didn’t, it’s still worth designing on sweatshirts. Don’t let search weirdness dissuade you from designing on something.
Something is really messed up there. Everything on the first page (I didn’t look further) of that search link is this shirt which is flagged as discontinued.
And I mean everything - all the sweatshirts and other style T’s, if you click on them you get the design on this shirt again. At first I thought a Creator just made a mistake uploading a Cover of a sweatshirt to the wrong product but then I realized every singe one is like this.
Ok - that’s crazy. I clicked on the products and saw this striped t-shirt every time. I think I’ll hold off on designing sweatshirts or hoodies until the issue is resolved.
I wouldn’t let this hold you off from publishing designs with sweatshirts as the default style option. I tried a bunch of different similar searches
football + shirts
football + sweat
various other sports + sweatshirt
non-sport words + sweatshirt
and they all returned expected results
It’s only football + sweatshirt and football + hoodie that turn everything into this discontinued red shirt style. If you use the category filter, the glitch persists on everything from the main “Clothing & Shoes” on down, except for the sub-subs of “Mens Tops” and “Womens Tops” and their subs.
If instead you use the style filter after https://www.zazzle.com/s/football+sweatshirts and choose “hoodie”, you find a different glitch. There’s only 130 results (can’t believe there are that few hoodies tagged with football) and almost all of them show as this same color & style preview
Maybe search has always returned different styles than published if a designer left the style options open and I just never had reason to notice before, I don’t know, but something has definitely gone awry with football + sweatshirt or hoodie.
