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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi all,
I'm trying to contribute the Israeli deluxe 3D blu-ray edition fo the movie "Turbo". The UPC of the title is: 7-294276-192515 but it appears to be invalid (?)
Since this IS the UPC, I have no other way to contribute it. I preffer not to contribute with Disc-ID (there are 2 discs in the set anyways). Can someont tell me why this UPC is invalid? I checked the length (no. of digits) and it seems fine. Also, the DVD UPC is very close - 7-294276-292501 and it is valid. so what is the problem?
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| | Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | According to this site: http://www.upccode.net/upc_check.html the last digit of the code is supposed to be a 1. There are several reasons why you may find an invalid EAN, the most common being a bootleg release. According to this site a misprint is also possible because they give the EAN with the ending 1 as 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?
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| | Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,639 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yep, looks like they screwed up the EAN. Now what is interesting is if you drop the 7, first digit, and make it a UPC (29427629251) the check digit is a 5. It appears they took a valid UPC and simply added a prefix of 7 to it to try to make it an EAN. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it a valid EAN.
Lewis_Prothero, thanks for the link as that site is much easier to use then some others. |
| | Registered: March 11, 2009 | | Posts: 211 |
| | Posted: | | | | If you have the iOS or Android versions, or another way to scan the barcode, try that. Frequently with misprints, the barcode is actually correct and will read a different number than what's printed below it. |
| | Registered: October 30, 2011 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,870 |
| | Posted: | | | | That is a good point on the IOS or android versions.
However on another point if you submit a back image of the profile be sure to note that the EAN on the back is incorrect because of a misprint and reference this thread. Because you don't want the contribution declined because the EAN on the back image does not match the EAN contributed. I have had to do that before in this type of condition. |
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