The Seller response group returns information about sellers, including the seller ID, nickname, seller rating, and location for each seller in the response.
This response group is often used with SellerLookup to display comprehensive information about the seller.
The following table describes the elements returned by Seller. The elements on the left side of a slash mark are the parents of the elements on the right side of the slash mark.
| Response Element | Ancestry | Definition |
|---|---|---|
About
| Seller/About | Describes the seller. |
Feedback
| Seller/Feedback | Provides customer feedback about the seller. |
FeedbackRating
| Seller/FeedbackRating | Provides an average customer rating of the merchant where 5 is the best and 0 is the worst. |
Location
| Seller/Location | Location of the seller. |
Name
| Seller/Name | Seller's common name. |
SellerLegalName
| Seller/SellerLegalName | Seller's legal name. This can differ from the Name value. For example, Amazon could be the value for the Name, but Amazon.com for the Legalname. |
SellerNickname
| Seller/SellerNickname | A seller's nickname. |
TotalFeedback
| Seller/TotalFeedback | Provides all of the customer feedback about the seller. |
TotalFeedbackPages
| Seller/TotalFeedbackPages | Specifies the number of pages of customer feedback. Up to ten customer reviews are returned per page. |
TotalRatings
| Seller/TotalRatings | Catalogs all customer ratings of the seller. |
Seller also returns the elements that all response groups return, which is described in Elements Common to All Response Groups.
The folllowing request was used to illustrate the XML response elements returned by Seller.
http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService& AWSAccessKeyId=[Access Key ID]& Operation=SellerLookup& SellerId=[Seller ID]& ResponseGroup=Seller
The following response snippet shows the elements returned by Seller.
<Seller>
<SellerId>[Seller ID]</SellerId>
<SellerName>Amazon.com</SellerName>
<SellerLegalName>Amazon.com, LLC</SellerLegalName>
<GlancePage>http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/at a glance.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DER&marketplaceSeller=1</GlancePage>
<AverageFeedbackRating>0.0</AverageFeedbackRating>
<SellerFeedback>
<Feedback>
<Rating>1</Rating>
<Comment>As clearly indicatedabove, I ordered "How to Do Everything with Windows XP Home Networking" by Dave Field, but received instead "How to Do Everything with Windows XP" by Curt Simmons, a totally different book, for which I have no use.</Comment>
<Date>2006 06 01T01:58+0000</Date>
<RatedBy>A59KKB5O4U1NE</RatedBy>
</Feedback>