Hello everyone, I would like to point out two curiosities I've recently come across: (1) seemingly wrong ASINs returned as part of product reviews response group, and (2) seemingly broken AlternateVersions response group on some international locales. This is more like a bug report, but if anybody knows an explanation/workaround, I'd very much appreciate it. Question 1. Why is that that the product ASIN returned as part of an Operation=ItemLookup&ResponseGroup=Reviews query is always the ASIN supplied in the query, even for reviews originally posted for different alternate versions of the product? (In the example below I'll use the Canadian locale but it equally applies to the main US locale and all others.) Let's take a popular book such as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Canadian ISBN 1551927608). Using the web interface http://www.amazon.ca/review/product/1551927608/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending we find that the most recent review was originally posted for the related hardcover version (ASIN 155192756X): --- 4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, Aug 28 2007 By Mark (Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada) This review is from: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) (Hardcover) http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/155192756X/ref=cm_cr_pr_orig_subj Like most everyone I've been reading Harry Potter for a long long time. As the last in the series this is prety good altho ...
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