Amazon Database
ashleymch - December 22, 2008 - 20:09
i have used drupal for other sites and I like it. However, I am starting a new project and I'm not sure how possible this is.
I want to create an e-commerce website, where the products are fed from amazon. So if someone was to go to my site, and say search for a DVD, computer, book the results that would be displayed would be from current amazon listings. But the catch is they wouldn't know its from amazon. I don't want a banner or an affiliate link. I want people to browse amazon products from my site. Now I could go through and enter each product manually, the most popular ones, but this would take way too much time. Is this even possible?
Did you look at
Did you look at http://drupal.org/project/amazontools
Is it legal to copy all of Amazons products to your own site? You can hide affiliate links using htaccess redirects.
Discount SSL Certificates http://www.runssl.com
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Just my personal opinion here (so take with a grain of salt) but, this idea seems a bit underhanded to me. Not toward amazon but more toward customers who will then get a reciept from amazon.com and shipping from amazon.com at that point I'd think any customers you may snag in this web wouldn't do repeat business with your business. I personally would feel you were less than forthcoming about the way you practice business.
affiliations are accepted these days but if you look like you are hiding something .......
I'd think you would want to advertise that you are a seller for amazon as than you look more reputable than someone who goes out of their way to remove amazon from the equation.
Thank you for the opinion
Thank you for the opinion but the way the business runs customers know this. It will accept a form of payment that while is popular online, for some reason has not taken to online merchants. So these people who use this form of payment would pay me, then I would convert the payment to acceptable amazon terms.
So I would be careful to jump to conclusions...
Just MY opinion...
It wasn't such a jump-- But
It wasn't such a jump--
Sorry, but this reads underhanded.
Either the customers know or they don't-- they can't both know and not know. And if they know, what's the point of hiding it?
Though it really has nothing to do with drupal, you will often find people in the forums commenting negatively on seemingly deceitful use cases.
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I guess I did not explain
I guess I did not explain myself correctly. The customer would know that I am purchasing the goods from existing online stores. I used Amazon as an example because it is the largest one I belive. However, they will not know which one nor do they care. It is a service.