Data Feeds

I don't get it

[bosshog]

Hi,

I know merchants such as Animal Den have a datafeed, however when I look at their info on cj - all I see if links for banners etc - and only links to specific products.

I'm interested in in obtaining the datafeed of all their products.

How do you go about finding datafeeds or similar? Am I missing something in cj or do I have to contact the merchant directly?

thanks for any pointers
Wayne

[bosshog]

Actually I just found a few merchants that provide datafeeds.

No my next question (sorry for the above spam):

Are most of the datafeeds just links to their products, or can you actually sell these, as use the merchant as a dropshipper - anyone?

[voices]

They are just links to their products. Used to be your sales had to be over a certain amount, then you could get datafeeds from some merchants for no charge. It has been a long time since I have done that so things may have changed. Best thing would prob be to send cj an email and ask how you can get datafeeds.

[MamaDawg]

You can get the product catalogs free if you use the cj web services - I've had problems with the web service speed and reliability (including one major disaster where I found it pulling up totally unrelated items from a merchant with whom I had NO relationship?!), but I've worked around those issues by only using the web services to periodically collect the data and load it into my local database.

[skibum]

Outside of Web Services, I think it is free to get access if you can generate 10K in sales per month in your CJ account as a whole or you can pay $200 if your current sales level is not that high.

[Rowan]

Skibum is correct in my experience.

[skibum]

...and that $200 is a one-time setup fee, not recurring.