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bug in Amazon import in Games section

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Prelude 17 years, 5 months ago at Nov 13 13:32 -
I can't confirm this, but it seems to me that whenever someone adds a game from the Amazon database that already exists in the Listal database, the title and platform get reset to amazon's default (changing PC Games to PC, for example) and all 'View Changes' history gets reset.

kinda shitty, if that's what's happening. Amazon sucks, and listal's database for an item that already exists should override amazon's updates.
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Tom 17 years, 5 months ago at Nov 13 15:10 -
Which item got changed? It's impossible for the history to be erased as there is no code to do that. If the history is erased a new product id must have been created in this case all the ratings and tags would also disappear.

I just tested on one game by editing it's title and then adding it with the ASIN and it didn't change my title. There may be some other problem though if items are getting reset.
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Prelude 17 years, 5 months ago at Nov 13 21:59 -
It happened to this one 5 days ago www.listal.com/game/halflife-2-pc

notice I changed it from PC to PC Games? but I swear 100% it was PC Games before that for the longest time.

and same thing happened to this one this morning
www.listal.com/game/thief-3-deadly-shadows-pc

it also was 'PC Games' forever, but it somehow changed to PC this morning with no record of any changes, so I assumed it maybe was some sort of amazon update. but i have no clue what really caused it to change.
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Prelude 17 years, 5 months ago at Nov 15 20:23 -
it happened again to this title:

www.listal.com/game/the-sims-2-pc
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Prelude 17 years, 5 months ago at Nov 20 21:25 -
It keeps happening randomly to some games.

www.listal.com/game/call-duty-2-pc

This game, just today, changed from PC Games platform to Windows XP platform for no reason. I changed it back, but only my change is visible in (View Changes) section.

odd