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Determining Availability
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Only items that are available can be put into the active area of a remote shopping cart. Unavailable items can be put in the SaveForLater area of the cart.
Amazon defines available items as those that are:
The availability of an item can change without notice. Putting an item in a cart does not reserve it. Items in carts can become unavailable and their prices can change as soon as the item goes into the cart.
Determining if an item is available is determined differently for merchants and sellers.
Availability of Merchant Items
| 1 | Check the Availability element value returned by the Offers or OfferFull response groups. |
| 2 | Make sure the item has an offer listing ID. |
| 3 | Use the Availability request parameter along with the
Condition parameter in an
ItemSearch request. Items might be
available, for example, in one condition but not
another. |
With Merchants, you use one of the Offer response groups to determining item availability.
