Author Topic: Amazon links on Digital games  (Read 758 times)

tripredacus

Amazon links on Digital games
« on: December 24, 2015, 12:49:21 pm »
SKU matching is not working correctly for Digital game categories. For example this one:
http://vgcollect.com/item/63921

It is showing the prices for the physical release prices for Amazon and directly links to that release type. Ideally, if it should link to Amazon at all, it should be getting the info for the digital version. If no digital version exists on Amazon, then it shouldn't link to anything.

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Re: Amazon links on Digital games
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2015, 03:09:25 pm »
SKU matching is not working correctly for Digital game categories. For example this one:
http://vgcollect.com/item/63921

It is showing the prices for the physical release prices for Amazon and directly links to that release type. Ideally, if it should link to Amazon at all, it should be getting the info for the digital version. If no digital version exists on Amazon, then it shouldn't link to anything.

I think the links are based on barcodes, and Amazon doesn't really list barcodes properly. They have their own identification numbers, if I'm not mistaken.
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Re: Amazon links on Digital games
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2015, 03:15:16 pm »
Digital games don't have barcode's  ;)

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Re: Amazon links on Digital games
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2015, 03:20:06 pm »
Digital games don't have barcode's  ;)

Hehe, yeah, so I figure it's trying to go by name, but of course it doesn't realize the record is for the digital version. It's something with what VGC uses to get those prices - I don't think VGC can do anything to fix it, unfortunately.
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