I’ve never really posted in here but I can’t seem to find an answer to this or anyone else discussing it on the web for that matter.
When I check out the sales on the main page, random parts of the prices are blanked out with dashes, so something that was 149.99 now appears as 14-.–. Even the “MSRP” prices are blanked out.
The only thing I can think of is that this was implemented to keep web crawlers from tabulating the prices on your site.
Can I get a better explanation why the prices are being covered up until you actually land on the product page itself? It’s giving my jimmies a mild rustle and I’d like to know the reasoning for it. Otherwise I’ll assume it’s a clickbaity ploy to get more people to click on more product pages.
No, only Woot’s front pages! No other websites. like i said, once I click through to the product page the 9’s show up just fine in the “main” price heading. Just the condensed prices on the thumbnails are what’s getting replaced with dashes. I’ve never seen anything like this before!
The only extension I have installed is LastPass and it never does anything unless there’s a text box with a submit button. I don’t use any other extensions at all except for google docs ones that come with it.
Safari is displaying it fine. It has something to do with chrome, even though I can’t tell where the error is. I guess it’s just a random fluke that I have no control over, oh well
thanks all for trying to figure this out with me.
EDIT: I tried copy-pasting the text of the misbehaving prices, and when I paste the 9’s show up! So the characters haven’t been replaced, but they are displaying as em-dashes or maybe there’s a “strikethrough” text styling tag somewhere left open in the code.
