CODEWITHSUNDEEP
barcode
Manan Mehta
Manan Mehta

Reputation: 5919

Why do these two items have the same barcode?

I am trying to build an iOS app that involves scanning barcodes and I came across this weird scenario where this api and this api gave me different items for the same UPC-A barcodes.

Is it possible for two item issued in the same country to have the same UPC-A barcode or is this the APIs fault?

Here's the barcode image? It'll be great if someone can give me some general barcode guidelines. It's my first time dealing with barcodes. enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3193

Answers (1)

Snow Cloud
Snow Cloud

Reputation: 11

I don't know anything about API's, but I was a 3rd party seller on Amazon, and it looks like that shower gel was sold on Amazon, and the website http://www.upcitemdb.com that was used to pull those results pulls data from Amazon, somehow. When you enter an item for sale on Amazon, some catergories require you to use a barcode in order to place an item for sale on Amazon. If an item does not have a barcode it is conceivable that the seller invented one simply to get their listing on Amazon. In this case, it looks like they entered the same barcode that RedBull has registered to them.

I also find it fishy that the website http://www.upcitemdb.com not only pulls data from Amazon, but uses Amazon ads, and is likely owned by an Amazon affiliate who has a vested interest in directing traffic to Amazon, not in displaying correct barcode information.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions