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03-31-2010, 10:16 PM
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All Camel sites - Product Lists can be cross-searched
Dan,
I would like to be able to cross import my list to the other camel sites. For example, a product sold at Best Buy is available at Amazon and I would like to find out who has the lowest price.
This would be a great feature and save time adding them by hand.
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03-31-2010, 10:27 PM
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up here in my tree
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Quote:
Originally Posted by macbill
Dan,
I would like to be able to cross import my list to the other camel sites. For example, a product sold at Best Buy is available at Amazon and I would like to find out who has the lowest price.
This would be a great feature and save time adding them by hand.
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Now THAT is a clever way to make the wishlist importer more useful. And I don't think any of the retailers will have a problem with that, so I will look into this!
The main obstacle that I can see is the mapping of products from one retailer to another; some have entirely different skus or lack upcs, which make them a little harder to match.
Thanks for sharing this idea. It's a good one :]
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04-01-2010, 12:25 AM
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Human being with feelings
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan
Now THAT is a clever way to make the wishlist importer more useful. And I don't think any of the retailers will have a problem with that, so I will look into this!
The main obstacle that I can see is the mapping of products from one retailer to another; some have entirely different skus or lack upcs, which make them a little harder to match.
Thanks for sharing this idea. It's a good one :]
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Well, even a "manual importer", i.e. is this the item...can be good, or say by UPC number, but than, I've seen different UPC numbers on same items, say a 3rd party selling the item in someone's store.
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04-01-2010, 02:06 AM
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up here in my tree
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Quote:
Originally Posted by macbill
Well, even a "manual importer", i.e. is this the item...can be good, or say by UPC number, but than, I've seen different UPC numbers on same items, say a 3rd party selling the item in someone's store.
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UPCs are, by nature, universal. Whether or not they are always provided to us by each retailer is a different story.
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04-04-2010, 08:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan
UPCs are, by nature, universal. Whether or not they are always provided to us by each retailer is a different story.
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It's been my experience when buying a Video game, I've seen two different UPC numbers on the product. They were priced at two price points. If you need a specific example, let me know.
-- macbill
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04-04-2010, 08:37 PM
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up here in my tree
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Quote:
Originally Posted by macbill
It's been my experience when buying a Video game, I've seen two different UPC numbers on the product. They were priced at two price points. If you need a specific example, let me know.
-- macbill
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My understanding is that one product has one UPC. A game sold for multiple consoles and/or PC would have a UPC for each flavor of that game.
I would definitely appreciate some examples. I could very easily be mistaken!
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04-04-2010, 08:40 PM
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Human being with feelings
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Wii play hard
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Originally Posted by Dan
My understanding is that one product has one UPC. A game sold for multiple consoles and/or PC would have a UPC for each flavor of that game.
I would definitely appreciate some examples. I could very easily be mistaken!
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I had bought by mistake two games with the same title. The covers were the same, but one of the two had a sticker over the UPC area with a different UPC code. I take it that if it were scanned with the original UPC, it would have the higher price. My take is that it is a 3rd party vendor who placed that game in the store so he gets the sale of the product. This can be at Best Buy or Toys R Us.
I found one here as an example
Title: Petz Crazy Monkeyz for the Wii
UPC on box: 0-08888-17434-9
UPC on Sticker over box: 6-96055-16573-5
Hope this helps...
Last edited by macbill; 04-04-2010 at 08:43 PM.
Reason: found UPC codes
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04-04-2010, 08:56 PM
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up here in my tree
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Quote:
Originally Posted by macbill
I had bought by mistake two games with the same title. The covers were the same, but one of the two had a sticker over the UPC area with a different UPC code. I take it that if it were scanned with the original UPC, it would have the higher price. My take is that it is a 3rd party vendor who placed that game in the store so he gets the sale of the product. This can be at Best Buy or Toys R Us.
I found one here as an example
Title: Petz Crazy Monkeyz for the Wii
UPC on box: 0-08888-17434-9
UPC on Sticker over box: 6-96055-16573-5
Hope this helps...
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The first UPC brings up the game in Google and the second, nothing. A valid UPC should show up somewhere, so I wonder if that UPC was unique to the store, say someone returned it and they were reselling it at a cheaper price.
You might also see a different UPC if a company ships a "gold"/"classic" or updated version of a game after its original release.
Last edited by Dan; 04-04-2010 at 09:15 PM.
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04-17-2010, 01:13 AM
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Banned
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 1
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Thats a good i dea!!!!
Quote:
Originally Posted by macbill
Dan,
I would like to be able to cross import my list to the other camel sites. For example, a product sold at Best Buy is available at Amazon and I would like to find out who has the lowest price.
This would be a great feature and save time adding them by hand.
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yes thats a good a idea in that way if you buy a bulk of products you have a chance to make a higher disccount.... cool.....
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06-03-2010, 06:12 AM
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The one on the sticker over the box is a probably a promo UPC for in store use only.
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06-07-2010, 11:51 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Florida
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UPC Sticker
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
The one on the sticker over the box is a probably a promo UPC for in store use only.
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I think you're probably correct on that. That way, the same item can ring up a different price and they don't have to update the inventory or whatever.
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