[ic] Ebay auctions and Interchange

Grant interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Mon Jan 20 11:05:01 2003


>-----Original Message-----
>Subject: RE: [ic] Ebay auctions and Interchange
>3. after an auction purchase is made, the automatic auction email
>is sent to
>the purchaser with a link to the special IC auction page (auction.html)
>4. on auction.html, the purchaser enters their auction item number and the
>sku of the item they won
>5. the customer is then taken to the Your Cart page with the appropriate
>item in their cart
>6. the customer then has the option to "continue shopping" or "checkout"
>7. each day, a fresh items file is imported into ChannelAdvisor and all
>currently unlisted items with an inventory greater than 0 are listed at
>auction
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>
>
>Just thinking.....
>
>If you just take the user to your "auction" page, and then check out... how
>are your transferring the final end of auction price to the page. In your
>scenario, they are presented with your cart price and not the cost of item
>at end of auction (which may be higher than your cart price).

Very true!  I'm planning on using fixed auction prices with the same price
as the store price though.

>
>Also, if you go this far... just have IC create a file of your auction
>products (can even be done with criteria as you may want to only out for
>auction certain categories of items. Have that executed via cron,
>then write
>a simple perl script to auto FTP the file to your auction house which also
>could be run via cron... but then you must think about the logic of your
>export query as not to list same item day after day, as most auctions last
>more than 24 hours...

Cool, thanks Russ!

- Grant