Re:A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts
by ehnto on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:30AM
(#23710567)
There's a lot that goes into when and where you can show the final item price.
Assuming a simple product, you don't know where the user lives so you can't apply the correct taxes yet. In AUS this is easy because it's the same nationally. But in the US there are dozens of tax combinations that could be applied depending on the location.
Shipping obviously depends on where you live and what you're buying, and few places charge per item shipping these days so it doesn't even make sense to include shipping in a single item cost.
Then you have customer group discounts, some customers get different pricing when they are logged in, even item combinations in the cart can have different prices, you get the idea. It is usually not possible to calculate ahead of time.
Assuming a simple product, you don't know where the user lives so you can't apply the correct taxes yet. In AUS this is easy because it's the same nationally. But in the US there are dozens of tax combinations that could be applied depending on the location.
Shipping obviously depends on where you live and what you're buying, and few places charge per item shipping these days so it doesn't even make sense to include shipping in a single item cost.
Then you have customer group discounts, some customers get different pricing when they are logged in, even item combinations in the cart can have different prices, you get the idea. It is usually not possible to calculate ahead of time.