Price low to high not working?
Found this on Reddit:
I was looking to buy a book on the UK site just now, and searched for the word “collected” in the books category. 70,000 results.
Ok, that’s a lot so price low to high please Amazon. “Showing results from All Departments No results for collected in Books” “1-16 of 25 results”… wait, what.So I try the same on the American site and more or less the same thing happens. For the record, and unsurprisingly, that’s not even the right number for the rest of the categories.
“lego” in toys doesn’t bounce to all cats, but it does only return about 150 items on either site.
“Star wars” (all cats, US site) 100,000 results. Price low to high… 42.
This is in chrome and firefox browsers including chrome in incognito with no addons.
I hope this is weirdly localised to our house, because what are the chances our items show up in those blessed few?!
I’ve tried it myself and it seems to be just as they say.
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Seller_ugiIC6Uads3Rv
In the last week there seems to have been some bizarre tinkering (again).
Any search in books seems to have ridiculous results on page 1; take as an example, searching “Savonarola”. The results are sorted by “featured”, there are supposedly 868 results, the top result is unavailable, and is supposedly a guide to the monastery of San Marco published in 1885, the next four are roughly as I’d expect to find, then seven very strange titles (all, again, unavailable).
Opt for sorting by price low to high, there are only nine results.
High to low, 720 results (but not organised high to low at all)
Average customer review: 720 results still (hooray for consistency!), but again, not actually rated by the average customer reviews
And the final option, publication date, has 713 results, but is pretty useless because it’s filled with “scholar’s choice” style reprints.
What a ridiculous mess.
Seller_1y9PYjveMaDoE
been aware of this since last year - just presumed Amazon was selecting a small bunch of sellers it would prefer you to buy from.
Never considered it may just be broken.
Seller_HNAfOHmB0ft30
It would certainly explain the massive drop in sales. Surely Amazon must be aware of this or will they just deny that anything is wrong as per usual?
Seller_HNAfOHmB0ft30
Is Amazon just completely borked at the moment?
Seller_LKjg1QRrO36Yq
I know this is going a bit OT, but I wonder what the most recent clone in the catalogue is?
I’ve a feeling that 2015 might be the cut-off date for cloned ISBNs but I’m not sure.
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Having said that, while I have seen dupe books with EANS, they also seem able to create duplicates for CDs and DVDs that don’t have EANs, only ASINs.
How do they do that, I wonder.
Example:
duplicates:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B01M8PQAZ9
(no EAN, just ASIN)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B01F462SA4
(this one has an EAN and a UPC - both bogus?)
original:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000CIWXL4/
(with official EAN)
How/why does Amazon allow the creation of these phantom DVDs that are already in the catalogue?
