listpriceformattedprice is pretty useless, actually, because people expect to get a discount at Amazon.

I'll admit that lowestpriceformattedprice is sometimes a little dishonest as well, because it could be from any number of partners, but it's nice to have both.

Patch forthcoming.

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shawn dearmond’s picture

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Here's a patch

rfay’s picture

Thanks! And nice to have you back.

The list price is actually *very* useful, as it's used as a comparison technique in a thousand places.

Be careful though since Amazon changed so much of this yesterday, #1230606: October 25, 2011 Amazon API changes (Must be done by then). We'll see how much has broken. I guess since you just put in the patch it must work OK. I think we'll have some breakage, especially with anything dealing with merchants.

shawn dearmond’s picture

Once Amazon re-instated my Associates account in California, I'm back working on this again.

Come to think of it, changing the default tpl.php file may not be the best idea. For one, if I want that change, I can just edit it in my theme. But for everyone else, just by updating the module, their layout is going to suddenly be different. Don't know if we want to do that.

Just think about it. I won't feel bad if you mark this as "Won't Fix".

rfay’s picture

The lowest price is kind of iffy too, now that Amazon is not giving us merchant info. I'm betting that the Amazon price is the lowest price.

Most of the time I use views when I want to expose this kind of thing.

I think the first thing for you to do is to just provide step-by-step instructions here for somebody to update their own theme to show the lowestpriceformattedprice (or other things...) - and adding that to the documentation page would be fantastic.

shawn dearmond’s picture

Title: Provide lowestpriceformattedprice in amazon-item--details.tpl.php in addition to listpriceformattedprice by default » Improve theming documentation
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Sounds good. I'll start work on it here as a scratchpad.

willvincent’s picture

Status: Active » Needs work