Hello, I am the CIO of a new online marketplace called Pricefalls.com (http:// www.pricefalls.com). At Pricefalls, sellers may post their products for sale by means of a fixed price, or dutch auction model. We are currently feeding our products by means of manual upload, and are interested in building out the Google Base API for automated feeding. Before doing so, I would like to clarify a few concerns that I have with the Google Base API.
Our primary price model is based on the Dutch Auction, where product prices decrease over the course of an items' listing duration from a predetermined Price Ceiling to a Price Floor. The intervals by which these prices fall vary based on a price decrement, as determined by the difference between the price ceiling and price floor over the listing duration. Product prices fall as often as every 15s. In order to remain compliant with Google Policies, we understand that we must keep an up-to-date buy it now price for our auctions (as our prices are falling, we run the risk of displaying a lower price on our website then displayed in Google Product Search). I was wondering whether it is possible to update our product prices every 15s, and if not, what is the maximum frequency at which we can run our updates? Furthermore, how long is the interval from feed submission to data population, to search-ability? I am looking forward to your responses, and thank you very much for taking the time to respond to this post. Sincerely, Peter Schaefer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-base-data-api?hl=en.
