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| Registered: May 18, 2007 |  Posts: 389 |
| | Posted: | | | | I tried to put in a UPC for a pre-release title and I got this message:
"The entered UPC does not seem to be valid"
Do you want to continue?
Then when I try to contribute it I get this message:
"Unable to contribute this profile"
DVD Profiler is unable to validate the UPC.
Please verify the UPC and ensure that you have entered the entire code.
Has anyone else come across this? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 4,245 |
| | Posted: | | | | Rarely.
I wonder how does the program know what is a legit UPC and not. |
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| Registered: May 2, 2009 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 490 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ages ago... But how about selecting the option not to connect to the invelos DB and enter the title manually – if you are positive about the UPC? When I enter for example upcoming titles, I generally google first to find the specific UPC and then google the UPC itself to verify from as many sources as possible so that the UPC is genuine.
I found the site dealoz.com, for example, to be a good source. |
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| Registered: April 3, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,998 |
| | Posted: | | | | Last post on a similar topic here |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,217 |
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| Registered: May 18, 2007 | | Posts: 389 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting MikaLove: Quote:
Ages ago... But how about selecting the option not to connect to the invelos DB and enter the title manually – if you are positive about the UPC? When I enter for example upcoming titles, I generally google first to find the specific UPC and then google the UPC itself to verify from as many sources as possible so that the UPC is genuine.
I found the site dealoz.com, for example, to be a good source. I tried your idea, getting the UPC from dealoz.com and try contributing it an now the profiler took it normally, thanks. |
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| Registered: May 2, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 490 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Orici: Quote:
I tried your idea, getting the UPC from dealoz.com and try contributing it an now the profiler took it normally, thanks. Hey, cool!  I am perhaps almost as happy as you are for being able to contribute the new title as I am for being able to ("for once") help someone out!  I mean, I don't consider myself unintelligent, but mostly either my ideas are just shunned or they are off base and irrelevant. LoL...  |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Be aware that invalid UPCs usually indicate a bootleg.
At least if the DVD in question isn't from Asia, where they don't seem to care too much about UPC conventions | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: May 18, 2007 | | Posts: 389 |
| | Posted: | | | | Silence,
I don't buy DVD/Blu-ray from Asia. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've come across these very rarely, turned out to be a misprint on the barcode - do you have a barcode scanner to see if it produces a different number? |
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| Registered: February 23, 2009 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,580 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Silence_of_Lambs: Quote:
Be aware that invalid UPCs usually indicate a bootleg.
At least if the DVD in question isn't from Asia, where they don't seem to care too much about UPC conventions Asia minus Japan that is. They have a zero tolerance for bootlegs (at least the ones that are sold in shops) | | | Blu-ray collection
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Taro: Quote:
Quoting Silence_of_Lambs:
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Be aware that invalid UPCs usually indicate a bootleg.
At least if the DVD in question isn't from Asia, where they don't seem to care too much about UPC conventions
Asia minus Japan that is. They have a zero tolerance for bootlegs (at least the ones that are sold in shops) I think Silence_of_Lambs is referring to some Asian DVD companies that don't use proper UPC codes but are not bootleggers (like CN Entertainment in Hong Kong, most of which have to be entered into our database by disc-ID). |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting synnerman: Quote:
Quoting Taro:
Quote:
Quoting Silence_of_Lambs:
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Be aware that invalid UPCs usually indicate a bootleg.
At least if the DVD in question isn't from Asia, where they don't seem to care too much about UPC conventions
Asia minus Japan that is. They have a zero tolerance for bootlegs (at least the ones that are sold in shops)
I think Silence_of_Lambs is referring to some Asian DVD companies that don't use proper UPC codes but are not bootleggers (like CN Entertainment in Hong Kong, most of which have to be entered into our database by disc-ID). Correct | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
Registrant since 05/22/2003 |
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