Created amazon nodes link to the homepage, not to the reviewed product

> Do you still have the problem? Sometimes Amazon slips.

I observed this for some time, and I can't reproduce the behaviour; sometimes the nodes link to the Amazon homepage, sometimes they lead to the product page; maybe it's Amazon, maybe the script, I am unable to diagnose it further.

However, I discovered that approximately since these bizarre redirects started to occur about two months ago, Amazon stopped counting _any_ referrals. I checked this several times by buying covertly through the Amazon associate tools - none of these sales were registered. Something here is seriously broken, but also it might be Amazon.

Regards, -asb

The code the amazon tools are generating seems indeed to be completely broken for months; see http://drupal.org/node/82717 and http://drupal.org/node/88759. Since he Amazon Associate ID is neither embedded in the referring URL nor in the database, this is most probably the reason why Amazon doesn't process the strings as expected.

There is a "lazy hack fix" described in node http://drupal.org/node/82717, but this does apply to newly created amazon nodes only. At my site, some 10k nodes are broken which have to be repaired manually in the database tables. Since I am not sure how the links have to be formatted correctly, this is very, very annoying :-(

Regards, -asb

> The admin/amazon page now has a tab with controls to let you mark all Amazon items as needing a price refresh [...]

Where can I find this tab? In the last version I installed (dated 2006-10-25), I can't find it neither under /admin/settings/amazon not under the blocks configuration.

Regards, -asb

> /admin/amazon
> It's a tab connected to the query/import page.

Import page, not settings? Where else. /admin/amazon doesn't exist at my installation, that one here is called /admin/amazon_import/. And indeed, under /admin/amazon_import/manage, there's a new tab. However, refreshing prices which are displayed wrongly anyway (as I pointed out months ago) seems not to make much sense to me.

> There's nothing I can do about the prices being in Euros.

That's not the point. The point is, that the prices the Amazontools are displaying in Amazon nodes (labeled "amazon price:...") is usually *not* not the actual price Amazon is selling the product for, but the suggested retail price of the manufacturer respectively the publisher. The point is, that the "amazon price" the Amazontools are displaying usually won't be the price Amazon is selling the item for. The problem of this is, that the *real* Amazon price usually will be significantly lower than the one Amazontools is displaying. It' simply wrong. As I pointed out a few months ago, there might be a few cases when both amounts are identical, e.g. books in Germany which have a fixed price which is not allowed to be reduced by a bookseller; then, but only then, the prices displaed by Amazontools will be correct. But the normal case is, that the "amazon price" will be wrong. Sometimes Amazon displays the difference by a notice like "you save that large amount 'n' if you buy here". That's also the reason why all recently imported products have wrong price tags (at least in my installation).

All the correct data exists in the the database table 'amazonitem' if I remember correctly; Amazools is just displying the data from the wrong database field. This has nothing to do with the currency or the fact, that the data in the database might be outdated (which might be updated by the new tab which I will evaluate in a few months, when the wrong affiliate ids hopefully will be purged from my database).

This can be fixed by (a) exchanging the label of the price tag for "amazon price" by "suggested retail price", or (b) by displying the correct field from the database.

However, this applies solely data imported from for Amazon.de; Amazon.com or othe subsidaries might label or use the fields differently.

Regards, -asb