Monday, August 8, 2011

Why Web product search returns -3 AWS. InvalidParameterValue error?

Sometimes the scanned barcode in "Web product search" screen returns following error message.

Error code: -3
Error Message: AWS. InvalidParameterValue

99999999999 is not a valid value for ItemId. Please change this value and retry your request.

This is a error message returned from Amazon's product search engine when the provided code number is not found in its database. If you want to know why your barcode has this problem, please go to Amazon's website and search the UPC code number. Then you will see more information.

In order to improve the quality of search result, we are planning to add Google's shopping database in search target and doing research. This feature is planned to release in October.