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by smokedetector1 122 days ago
Somethings broken - the most expensive ball, "TaylorMade 2021 TP5x (3+1 Box) 4DZ" is listed as $169.95 for 1 ball. Clicking through, this is actually for 4 dozen balls, making the actual per ball $3.54
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Posting my other comment from above:

Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to combat these inconsistencies. Right now, I have some manual overrides, but not sure it's sustainable to keep manually overriding inconsistent listings.

Any thoughts? Should I default to what's in the product title instead of the unit count? Not sure the best way to combat this.

ChatGPT was able to tell that there were 48 balls given only the URL...
Maybe add a "flag listing" button so users can alert you?
gemini flash!
I had the same thought, and checked a dozen or so of them, they're all multiple dozens of balls.

The submitter's description does make reference to this a bit, the Amazon product description quantity for these items is "1"...

And it gets more complicated for the ones that are 2 dozen, plus 1 dozen 'free'...

Yeah... I'm just now realizing how relying on unit count in the listing is more problematic than I thought. Sellers say their unit count is 1, but the product title says it is 4 dozen. I need to figure out how to fix these inconsistencies.