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Re:I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself by cobbzilla on Saturday August 02, 2025 @07:42AM (#44766813)
Clearly there exists some higher-level product concept with a mapping of country->ASIN for that product. How hard is it to lookup the correct ASIN?

Maybe you end up on the home page when there is no ASIN for your country? There should be a nicer message telling you that’s what happened. But if it always dumps to the home page, that’s just dumb — Amazon could easily do the lookup.

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Re:I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself by LeifCarrotson on Saturday August 02, 2025 @08:19AM (#44766994)
There's no such mapping, you could do a text search and if the item name matches then maybe US ASIN 2785334 should correspond to UK ASIN 3894948, or maybe some third party just named something ambiguously. They're essentially GUIDs and essentially separate businesses.
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Re:I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself by nilamo on Saturday August 02, 2025 @09:39AM (#44767518)
We all recognize this as an anti-pattern that has directly led to a poor customer experience, right?
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Re:I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself by zoover2020 on Saturday August 02, 2025 @12:50PM (#44769130)
Sorry this is just not true. ASINs can be the same cross marketplace. There are lower level identifiers available if needed
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Re:I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself by LeifCarrotson on Sunday August 03, 2025 @11:46AM (#44777362)
To be precise, sometimes there are matching ASINs and other identifiers cross-marketplace, but often they are unique.
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