[ic] Ebay auctions and Interchange

[Admin]

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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).

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...

Food for thought..


Russ Smith