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torris
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Deep within Mila's anus
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Posted - Oct 31 2001 : 12:32PM
Why are there only two or three participants now in the price search function. Done some checking and seems
like only a few like Jaded, Adult Universe are listing their prices
scipio
Senior Member

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Posted - Oct 31 2001 : 4:16PM
Not sure, it's the same on the Comparison cart, which is annoying since I was literally about to place an order.

Both Fivestar and ADN popped in and out during page refreshes..

I'll have a look back in an hour or two and see what's going on.

scipio

Edited by - scipio on Oct 31 2001

magnuspym
Member

USA
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Posted - Oct 31 2001 : 5:17PM
Yeah, that's really strange. I was doing some research on an upcoming order, and over the course of a couple hours as I checked back in more and more retailers were not showing up on the comparison cart.

What IS going on?

raoul
Member

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Posted - Oct 31 2001 : 5:19PM
yeah, ...i am also very confused...

i tried to place an order right now but got only unacceptable price search results, which did not contain my favourite stores...
I hope this failure will fix soon..otherwise I miss the helloween bargain at dvdvantage and have to wait til next year...

Raoul

spesedy
Member

Germany
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Posted - Oct 31 2001 : 6:40PM
Weird,

Didn't Drew say anything about a new price search version ? Maybe it isn't fully implemented yet, or it is but some mistake happened ?

However, I hope he'll notice the problem soon, since like you I was just going to transfer my cart to DVDAdvantage to use the Halloween Coupon :-(

 
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

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Posted - Oct 31 2001 : 8:09PM
All of the stores will be back up and running within the next 30 minutes. To make a long story short, I fucked something up without realizing it and was away from the computer for most of the day.
spesedy
Member

Germany
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Posted - Oct 31 2001 : 8:38PM
Cool!

I was just placing my order without using kickback when I read your message just in time to correct it and transfer my cart :-)

Thanks a lot Drew...

And happy Halloween ;)

Drew Black
broken crankshaft

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Posted - Oct 31 2001 : 9:17PM
That's what I get for staying up late working on a bunch of changes and not fully testing them.

I did a major overhaul of our price search import process over the past couple of days. With so many titles in the database now it was taking more than 10 minutes per store, per update to do the complete update using the old system. (We update most stores 4 times per day. It adds up to a lot of time.)

We've noticed that a lot of stores have been dropping DVDs from their product offering. I added an automated mechanism to remove stuff that stores no longer list on their sites. That's where the bug was. All of a store's titles were being deactivated with each import since sometime around 3:30 am today.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Feel free to send me hate mail.

scipio
Senior Member

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Posted - Oct 31 2001 : 10:34PM
~:HATE:~

There ya go. I just put off making my order for a few hours. I'll do it now instead.

thanks Drew,

cheers,

scipio

torris
Senior Member

Deep within Mila's anus
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Posted - Nov 2 2001 : 5:15PM
No need for hate mail. Glad to see it was a temporary glitch. Had no "energy" to slog through each site
independently for prices and am glad that such a search engine exists



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