CJ Product Data Feeds Problem

**internetheaven** · 10-12-04

I've just started with CJ Product Feeds and after the disaster zone of DGM I'm really not in the mood for lazy merchants with never-updated and always-broken feeds. Could anyone please tell me if they have experienced long-term problems with any of the following merchants feeds to that I can drop them now instead of spending the next six months trying to get something done about them:

Argos - the links always go to the main page, never to the product. It doesn't matter if I upload the feed the same day I get it, all the links go to the main directory page.

MFI - Always getting this:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0005'
Invalid procedure call or argument
/mfi/content/Common.asp, line 311

when clicking on every link.

MarshallWard - just plain won't download into my database. I can't seem to find the problem, all the code seems right but out of eight feeds this is only one that my scripting/server can't process.

Early Learning Centre - the links go to the WRONG products. I clicked 15 in a row and they all went to different (though slightly related) products.

**D-Mac** · 10-12-04

ELC - yes, their feed is broken in the way you describe.

I don't know about the other merchants.

**999gi** · 10-12-04

Try putting argos links into a text field rather than a varcahr(255) as some links are >255 chars I think

**CompareStore** · 11-12-04

I have been using the Argos feed for a long time and it is usually very good.

Although they only pay 2% they obviously have a lot of products so it's a great program to use if you want quantity of data from one merchant.

I grab it every day to update prices and you'd think the prices wouldn't change very much being a catalogue based company but you'll be amazed!

**internetheaven** · 11-12-04

I grab it every day to update prices and you'd think the prices wouldn't change very much being a catalogue based company but you'll be amazed!

How do you download it daily? I only get an updated version once a week from CJ?

**drivetowin** · 11-12-04

You need to speak to CJ - I get it every day too

**Retail-Therapy** · 11-12-04

Originally posted by CompareStore
Although they only pay 2%

You need to get onto them straight away as 3% is achievable without breaking into a sweat:

For Total Sales Amount equal to or greater than £5,000.00 GBP increase commission by 25.00%.
For Total Sales Amount equal to or greater than £10,000.00 GBP increase commission by 50.00%.

Tony

**Wardy** · 11-12-04

I'm entitled to the extra tiers and enquired as to why I haven't been moved up the tiers for the Argos program to 3%. They said that they will pay a bonus payment 3 months after the sale date with the owed commission to me!

Tony, are you already getting commission at the 3% rate now?

Cheers
Wardy

**CrazyGuy** · 16-12-04

As mentioned above - check your field URL length.

I chinned Argos about exactly the same thing some time ago - and the problem was truncated URLs. They have some very, very long URLs.