Glitch in prices today
Posted by Huw,
Some of you might have noticed that the price of LEGO in the US, Canada and the UK appeared to go up by a factor of 100 this morning which caused erroneous Amazon alerts as well as incorrect data in the database.
This occurred because of an error in LEGO's product feeds which are imported overnight. For some reason the prices have been specified in cents and pence rather than dollars and pounds.
So, I've made a change to the import code to divide by 100 before saving the price and have reported it to the affiliate network. Hopefully they will let me know when it's fixed so I can change the code back again, otherwise we'll be seeing prices reduced by a factor of 100 :)
Apologies for the inconvenience.
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"prices reduced by a factor of 100"
A man can dream, right?
That reminds me, because most sets get a discount on lego.com at the end of their production life Brickset has the discounted price saved for many old sets and not the price they were actually available for the longest time.
Isn't there some kind of history from which you could take the correct prices?
I've just corrected that problem but it won't affect prices originally stored, unfortunately.
Takes a fan site to fix a Lego website problem....classic
So for the likes of https://brickset.com/buy/country-uk/vendor-Amazon does that mean when data is next pulled from Amazon it should correct the erroneous entries?
^ Yes. We use LEGO's RRP, rather than that quoted by Amazon, to calculate discount.
so lego is worth more than gold
That explains that then, found some discounted Lego movie sets in a food shop and checked the price on good ol brickset... £3490.00 for Emmet's yellow bike thing!
No prob--and looking forward to that factor of 100 price drop!
Actually, a reduced factor of 100 dollars isn't so bad if LEGO honors it.
Edit: if this is LEGO own website I wonder what will happen with Bricklink.