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Using Google to find a discontinued product.
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Hi Guys.
I mostly use this forum for business questions, but now it's a personal one!
I'm trying to find a supplier that might still have discontinued product. It's the Behritone C5A speaker monitor.
All my searches bring up a plethora of pages that appear to sell the product... but they have no stock. (Wouldn't removing these pages make for a better internet?) No 2nd hand ones on eBay
Do you have any suggestion about how I can get more relevant results... i.e find supplier that might still have stock? Any tips or trick I may be able to use to help me with this?
Many thanks in advance to an awesome community
Isaac.
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Yes, that would make for a better internet indeed. A lot of these occur because the merchants keep the discontinued product URL in their feed and/or the page returns a 200 status code. Technically this should be considered a "soft 404" since what the user was looking for isn't there.
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Hi Isaac,
Have you tried searching in areas where suppliers pay for advertising, such as Google Shopping or shopping comparison sites like Bizrate?
Also, perhaps try searching on Google with keywords added on such as "auction", "discontinued", "used", stuff like that.
PS: I just found 7 on Amazon, but I am guessing you have already tried buying from these sellers. They all say they are in stock and new. One seller is listed as from Japan.
Not sure if this helps at all.
Looks like a nice speaker, by the way. I am quite the audiophile myself.
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