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red rover
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Posted - Dec 31 2006 : 11:08PM
Mods, if this isn't the correct place for this, please move or delete the post.

I am not seeing prices on any of the searches I do. Previously one of the columns of the search results was the lowest price for the DVD. Is this a recent change? Or am I doing something to cause this to disappear? I haven't visited the site as frequently as at some times in the past so I may not have seen if there has been any discussion about this.

Drew Black
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Posted - Dec 31 2006 : 11:32PM
can you provide a sample link?
Drew Black
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Posted - Dec 31 2006 : 11:34PM
Are you talking about the Price column or the Total Cost Column? (There are headers at the top of the column.) In order to see the value in the total cost value you have to fill in the form in that column to provide the shipping destination.
Drew Black
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Posted - Dec 31 2006 : 11:45PM
I think maybe I misunderstood the post. Are you talking about the search_results.dlt page? (Look at the URL in your browser's address bar to be sure.) We used to have the price on that page but removed it when we included the release date in the column.

We actually learned over time that having the price on that page was confusing people. We offer prices on new DVDs, used DVDs, rentals and streaming/downloads. (Now that it's gone it's also confusing ;) We would display a price based on the search type being done. So if someone searced for used or new DVDs and the used price was displayed in the results on that page it was confusing.

BTW, just click the blue link of the movie title to see the prices.

red rover
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Posted - Jan 5 2007 : 10:20PM
Thanks for the replies and sorry for the delay in responding. I'm seeing search_results.asp, not .dlt, but what you are describing is what I see ... there used to be a price on this page and now it's not there. It was useful (to me at least) to get a quick overview of prices, but of course these could be for new, used, etc., so had the potential to be misleading. If one was looking for the lowest priced titles for a particular performer this was a quick way to get an idea of what was available.

Great site, but this change is a reduction in its usefulness for me.

 
tdp
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Posted - Jan 14 2007 : 7:28AM
I agree with the previous psters' point. It was good to be able to view the prices for DVDs (I never ahd a problem with this being the New DVD price) on any search pages. It allowed a much easier surfing of the DVDs I was looking for.
Drew Black
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Posted - Jan 14 2007 : 9:26AM
I'll look into adding it back in. I know one of the technical reasons I removed it was because it added some extra overhead to the query that generates the search results. The's a bit more overhead in displaying the lowest price in addition to the other info that's there. It slowed down an otherwise fairly slow page.

Drew Black
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Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 3:11AM
I rewrote 50% of the price search code tonight to hopefully speed things up, display prices and cast list info. Let me know if you see any bugs.

The pricing displayed is always the price of a new DVD regardless of the search type (new, used, rental, vod) being performed.


From watching the query performance on the server the new page appears to be faster while providing about 50% - 70% more info per page.




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