Why isn't this API search call working?
When I search ebay.de for this keyword (an EAN), I get MANY items back: 402062891085
When I try to do the same call in the API, it simply doesn't work. I get a "invalid Product ID" error.
Here is the call:
http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1?
OPERATION-NAME=findItemsByProduct&
SERVICE-VERSION=1.7.0&
SECURITY-APPNAME=[MYAPPKEY]&
RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT=XML&
GLOBAL-ID=EBAY-DE&
REST-PAYLOAD&
paginationInput.entriesPerPage=5&
productId.@type=EAN&
productId=402062891085
Can someone tell me why this isn't working? I'm having a VERY frustrating time with foreign EAN's right now.
Hi,
Looks the the EAN(402062891085) is not valid. I couldn't find any match searching in ebay.de as well as Google for "EAN 402062891085" . An alternative method to verify ProductIDs is to use FindProducts API call (http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/shopping/docs/CallRef/FindProducts.html). For this EAN, even FindProducts did not return a match.
Regards,
