How do I link to Amazon....

[wibble99]

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How do I link to Amazon so that the user gets a page showing Amazon's price and not a 3rd party's?

E.g. if you look at this Amazon page it (currently) has a price of £17.99 shown, but that's for a 3rd party:

Lego Indiana Jones 2: Amazon.co.uk: PC & Video Games

You can see on the right, under 'more buying choices', that Amazon sells it for £21.83.

What I want is a page like the one it shows except where it shows the Amazon price as the main price it displays with the product details. I know you can get a new & used page where it lists all the 3rd party sellers' prices, but that's not what I'm looking for.

Is it possible to do that?

[Mogga]

You could look at ecu
easycontentunits.com : Home

[wibble99]

Thanks Mogga, but I'm not looking for a price comparison. I just want to know if it's possible to link to Amazon and get a page where it shows Amazon's price rather than a 3rd party's.

E.g. if I tell somebody on my site that Amazon are selling the product for £x, but then when I link to Amazon it's showing £y, because it's showing a 3rd party price, then it doesn't look too good. (It doesn't matter if it's cheaper - for what I want I need Amazon's price to be displayed not a 3rd party's)

I don't know if there's a parameter you can add to the Amazon URL to specify which merchant (in this case Amazon's ID) to display so I can override the default and show Amazon's price.

[wibble99]

Yay - I think I've worked it out so will share what I found. Basically, you can append the parameter 'm' to the Amazon URL with a value of A3P5ROKL5A1OLE, which is Amazon UK's merchant ID. It then shows you that merchant's offering rather than the default.

So for the example I gave before, the link below is the same other than I appended '?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE'

www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002BH3VS8?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

That now shows Amazon's prices!

[MartLewis]

Thanks for the help! I had a very similar problem!