Clearly there exists some higher-level product concept with a mapping of country->ASIN for that product. How hard is it to lookup the correct ASIN?

Maybe you end up on the home page when there is no ASIN for your country? There should be a nicer message telling you that’s what happened. But if it always dumps to the home page, that’s just dumb — Amazon could easily do the lookup.

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LeifCarrotson 4 days ago | parent [-]

There's no such mapping, you could do a text search and if the item name matches then maybe US ASIN 2785334 should correspond to UK ASIN 3894948, or maybe some third party just named something ambiguously. They're essentially GUIDs and essentially separate businesses.

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nilamo 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

We all recognize this as an anti-pattern that has directly led to a poor customer experience, right?

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zoover2020 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sorry this is just not true. ASINs can be the same cross marketplace. There are lower level identifiers available if needed

	▲	LeifCarrotson 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		To be precise, sometimes there are matching ASINs and other identifiers cross-marketplace, but often they are unique.