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Help Us Build the Database / Re: anyone want to scrape UPC #s?

April 21, 2021, 01:55:50 PM

.... I'm starting to have my doubts about using the data from this site. I wonder if some of them are just made up for a store's inventory purposes.
I thought I'd start getting #s from exclusives, and was getting them for BotCon products, but where would they get such #s? There's no UPC # on the bags, and I found a box that FunPub had used for one souvenir set, that while it had a SKU #, it didn't have a UPC #. Unless it was a smaller box from within a larger box, and only the larger box had the UPC #. Although I'd be surprised it wasn't more widely used than that. Considering how amateurish their forum was, perhaps they didn't use UPC #s to track inventory and only did it manually.

I learned early on that the UPC database sites (there are many, also in EU) are only good for finding leads on items and cannot be used for confirmation. When documenting actual physical products, I also learn to not blindly accept what is listed on any other website without photo confirmation. The reasons for this is that some products use multiple UPC/EAN and can be mismatched on store websites.
But regarding these sites specifically, the UPC/EAN come from various sources:
1. The actual UPC/EAN if the item has it
2. A reseller/disty resell of old stock. Think of it when you see an item that has a label over the original UPC/EAN and has a new one printed on it.
3. Multi-packs (same as new label)
4. Import/export versions
5. Distribution cases
For 3-4 they can have the same similarities as #2. For #5, there are instances where a case will have a barcode on it while the products inside do not, have a different code, or have a label code.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Calendar button doesn't do anything

August 08, 2018, 12:54:37 PM

When in the details of an item in collection, there is a green calendar button to the right of the Date Bought field:

My browser (Firefox) sees it as being an interactive element, meaning the cursor changes from an arrow to a hand. But clicking on it does nothing. Is it supposed to do something? If I click into the text field, the calendar appears there, but clicking on the image itself doesn't do anything.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / [RESOLVED] Wrong URL on tree view on profile

December 16, 2016, 12:44:54 PM

All the items on the tree-view list on the left side, while viewing my profile are set to this URL:

Code Select

http://www.shmax.com/%5Bid%5D

Code Select

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0

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Feature Requests/Announcements / Re: Update 05/08/2016

May 10, 2016, 09:05:34 AM

Yes it looks much better now. 

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / [RESOLVED]Forum PM Notification default?

May 10, 2016, 09:04:17 AM

I noticed I was not getting emails when I receive a PM since the forum was updated. I go into my notification settings and see that sending an email when you get a PM was not enabled. If that is a default setting, then it would be opposite what the default on the last version was.

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Feature Requests/Announcements / Re: Update 05/08/2016

May 09, 2016, 09:07:45 AM

My forum profile appears normally (I didn't do anything) but I see a generic man shape next to my name in the drop down up top.

Some thoughts regarding the forum:
- When looking at your own post, you can see your IP address. When looking at other's posts, you see "Logged" under their location. When you click it goes here: http://www.shmax.com/forum/index.php?action=helpadmin;help=see_member_ip . That seems an unnecessary thing to have there.
- The div under the post message, but above the signature (class under_message) seems to be larger than it should be. It has 12px padding which might be the reason.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / [RESOLVED] Inaccurate search results

February 25, 2016, 12:43:12 PM

Searching for Label Sheet in Generations only shows Whirl and Metroplex but not Roadbuster.

Search example, 1-4, Whirl, 3x Metroplex
http://www.shmax.com/products?q_filters_keywords=label%20sheet&q_filters_toyline=1825
Generations Roadbuster record:
http://www.shmax.com/product_details/15673/roadbuster

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General Transformers Discussion / Re: Kre-o Microchangers Collection 2 variant or database wrong?

February 10, 2016, 04:10:38 PM

He comes with a flat, kre-o branded stand.

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General Transformers Discussion / Re: Kre-o Microchangers Collection 2 variant or database wrong?

February 10, 2016, 01:13:32 PM

Sorry for the delay (been busy). Will check when I get home if still needed.

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General Transformers Discussion / Re: sealed vs opened

January 04, 2016, 09:14:00 AM

For carded items, I consider an item that is complete and loose, with card to be "opened" even if the bubble is missing. For items I purchase myself, I keep the cardboard insert... but if I buy the things separately, I can consider it "opened" without that insert.

Of course, the database is how you use it. Some people just use the site as a checklist and may add an item to their collection without clicking every box. Or some can be out of date (like mine) as I have opened quite a few of the items in my collection in recent months and not updated my collection to reflect that.

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General Transformers Discussion / Re: Kre-o Microchangers Collection 2 variant or database wrong?

December 22, 2015, 08:14:55 AM

Scan of the packaging back


Scan of Protectobot Groove's instruction outside

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General Transformers Discussion / Re: Kre-o Microchangers Collection 2 variant or database wrong?

December 21, 2015, 07:52:48 AM

I will take some pics of this package because I can't find any online.

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General Transformers Discussion / Kre-o Microchangers Collection 2 variant or database wrong?

December 20, 2015, 02:13:51 PM

Kre-o Microchangers Collection 2
http://www.shmax.com/products?q_filters_toyline=3724

Differences with checklist on the package.
Protectobot Groove, not Autobot Groove. Also has Protectobot prefix on the instruction sheet.
Autobot Powerglide, not Powerglide

Also the entry for Protectobot Groove (which I got today) says that last 2 digits of the number stamped on back are 77, yet the one I got today is different. This one has 52431 stamped on the back.

For anyone who has these blindpacks still, can you confirm whether the back of the packaging has the same names that are in the database?

For those keeping score at home, I got the 1 blind pack at Family Dollar.

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General Transformers Discussion / Re: What are these Legion class?

December 09, 2015, 08:13:51 AM

OK Sorry I had it backwards. I was presuming that there were non-CW versions of those two.

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General Transformers Discussion / Re: What are these Legion class?

December 08, 2015, 08:29:47 AM

So should I add the Cliffjumper and Skywarp I have or are they already in the database?