Hi,
I'm really making a lot of use of your product feeds now - thanks - really pleased to have access to so much info.
However, I
am finding it a problem that merchants all seem to use it differently. Just a couple of suggestions:
The image links - they're all different shapes and sizes - if, for example, merchants all provided square ones, then at least we could program for a certain size and shrink or stretch it to fit, but this doesn't work with rectangles, as the pics get distorted.
Description. Some merchants miss this out entirely - some of them put the description in the promo field.
One of them had so many typos that it wasn't useable and some of them don't edit the text they put in, so the description gets cut short in the middle of a word. This kind of problem requires me to do manual edits, which defeats the object of having a database and my downloads have about 5,000 products in them, so they're a bit big for me to want to go in there by hand anyway.
And most merchants seem to have duplicate entries for a single product - meaning I output a page where half the items are identical.
It seems a pity that, having provided such a brilliant facility, merchants aren't really making good use of it.
I hope I'm not being too picky - after 6 months, I still consider myself new to this and I thought the product feeds would be the answer to my dreams - but I'm disappointed in the quality of the data.
Interested to know everyone else's thoughts on this.