Magnus Müller
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Captures three learnings from a real run that mis-reported $3,080 AUD for a UACC-Rack-12U-Wall (real AU street ~$420-630): Tech Geeks is Shopify so use /products/<handle>.js for canonical price and SKU; its .js `available` flag is unreliable so cross-check the DOM for sold-out markers; and sold-out pages there carry stale/junk prices that must never enter a final table without a second-source sanity check. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Tech Geeks AU — Ubiquiti pricing
https://thetechgeeks.com — Shopify Online Store 2.0, AU Ubiquiti reseller. Prices GST-inclusive ("All Prices Include Australian GST At 10%" in footer).
Do this first
Hit the .js endpoint, not the DOM. Shopify exposes canonical product JSON — no scraping, no screenshots.
import json
d = json.loads(http_get(f"https://thetechgeeks.com/products/{handle}.js"))
# {'title', 'price' (AUD cents — divide by 100), 'available', 'variants', 'compare_at_price', ...}
Use this for title / SKU / price. One http_get replaces goto + wait_for_load + screenshot + regex.
Do NOT trust .js.available for stock
Tech Geeks marks many in-stock products available: false (backorder / order-from-supplier). Verified counterexample: UDM-Pro-Max available: true, U6-LR available: false but Add-to-cart live. To know real stock, cross-check the DOM:
document.querySelector('.price--sold-out')present → truly sold out- Body text contains "Sold out" (case-insensitive) near the product title → sold out
document.querySelector('product-form__submit[disabled]')→ sold out
Only if .js.available = false AND one of the above fires is the product actually unbuyable.
Sold-out pages have junk prices
Confirmed: UACC-Rack-12U-Wall listed $3,080 AUD (real AU street ~$420–$630). The sold-out listing carries stale / data-entry prices that nobody cleans up.
Sanity gate before reporting any Tech Geeks price:
- If
.js.available = false, treat the price as unverified. - If the price deviates >2× from another AU vendor or the
store.ui.comMSRP for the same SKU, assume Tech Geeks is wrong — not the other source. - Only in-stock prices should land in a final table.
Finding the right product URL
Slugs are long marketing titles, not SKUs. Don't guess. Two reliable shortcuts:
https://thetechgeeks.com/search?q=<SKU>→ scrape firsta[href*="/products/"]link- Google
site:thetechgeeks.com <SKU>when the internal search misses
Known gaps in their Ubiquiti catalogue (as of 2026-04)
- USP-PDU-Pro — not stocked (no AU-plug Ubiquiti SKU exists anywhere in AU; region-wide gap, not a Tech Geeks issue)
- U-Cable-C6-CMP (plenum Cat6) — only U-Cable-C6-CMR (riser) is carried
available: falseis common even on items they'll still order in
Don't use a browser for this
Product pages are static HTML + one JSON endpoint. http_get over asyncio/ThreadPoolExecutor fetches all SKUs in <5s. CDP is wasted here unless you need to click through a cart / checkout flow.