AWS availability

[Chris]

Amazon reports product availability as out of stock or discontinued when it is sold by anyone other than amazon (for instance marketplace sellers, all of apparel).

To get around this I changed the following code on my search/item/category viewing pages:



<!-- availability -->
<?php if($Availability != ''){ ?>
<strong>Availability:</strong> <?=$Availability?><br /><br />
<?php } ?>



To this:



<?php
if(strstr($Availability, "discontinued")){
$Availability = '';
}

if($Availability != ''){ ?>
Availability:_<?=$Availability?><br />
<?php } ?>


I figure that the availability message might have been discouraging some clicks so I'd rather it not show if its bad news.

[incka]

Good idea Chris, I'll implement this into my script.

[Mike]

I'm glad this was posted, it was the reason I wasnt having availability on.

[chromate]

Yeah, I get quite a few "discontinued" items showing up.

[pas]

I don't understand. Now visitors will click through to Amazon to find out the product is discontinued?

[eMEraLdwPn]

it sounds more like a fix for a mistake on amazon's part to me...

[ozgression]

Thanks for the tip, Chris
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