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by BadJo0Jo0 1581 days ago
Awesome! Glad to know that someone out there is enjoying this tool. Has definitely given me more motivation to polish it up, rather than me slogging along.

I honestly did the referral link to the model search because prior to doing so I was trying to price check, but don't have a programmatic way of doing that without access to the Associates API.

I did it manually at first, but then saw price drifts within a couple of days. On top of that, some models on the list were out of production and I was hesitant to link pricing to models that were likely to be refurbished, old stock, or listed as used.

I wasn't aware of ASIN, I do like the approach better, so I can work on getting that switched over when I get free time over the weekend.

Thanks again for your feedback!

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Ironically, although I work at AWS, I don't know much of anything about the consumer side of Amazon. Well, not much more than you'd expect from someone who has been an Amazon customer for years.

In particular, I know nothing about the API, although I did learn a few years ago about what an ASIN is. That's about as far as I can go, with regards to any kind of automated processing related to the consumer side.

I look forward to future enhancements to this tool! And let me know if you need any further testing.