VirtueMart Localise and Google merchant / Google Shopping

[tunasashimi]

I've installed the VirtueMart Localise and the GeoLocator bundle which is working fine.

Now, I've discovered, everytime when Google Merchant Bots are checking the price of an item, the item will be blocked because of wrong price declaration (US IP Adress).

I have two tax rules:
Switzerland +8% Vat / per product
EU +0% Vat / per product

For the moment I've added USA to the first Tax rule (I don't ship to USA), otherwise my products won't be listed in Google Shopping.

The problem still is, that google shopping for the EU countries doesn't work, because of the Tax rules and google's us ip adress

Is there a solution arround for this problem? Thanks

VirtueMart 3.0.16 / and current Joomla

[GJC Web Design]

perhaps precheck the ip addresses before the localise .. if is a Google one reassign it a EU one?

[tunasashimi]

perhaps precheck the ip addresses before the localise .. if is a Google one reassign it a EU one?

Well, lets say Googles Ip is 66.249.78.116 (all google ip's are from the us), what should I do with this info?
Prices change automatically, if the the visitor doesn't come from Switzerland.
I had to add the US to the first VAT rule, because google would not see the price incl the 8% VAT

[GJC Web Design]

so assigning US to the 8% rule solves the problem?

what I meant is code into the localise plugin a set of google ips that u re-assign programatically to a CH one before the ip is processed

$gurls = array('66.249.78.116', '66.249.78.117');// google ips - $found_ip is the detected ip
if (in_array($found_ip, $gurls )){
   $found_ip = '233.233.233.125'; // known CH ip
}

or find the entries for the google ips in the geo tables and assign to CH

all not necessary if its working now (do u sell to the US?)

[tunasashimi]

Ok, if I change to code to assign the google ip (CIDR: 66.249.64.0/19) to CH, then the EU prices would not be correct

so assigning US to the 8% rule solves the problem?

Yes and no, the EU prices are not correct.
If google is checking the google merchant prices for the EU countries, it would always see the CH prices 

all not necessary if its working now (do u sell to the US?)

I'm not selling to the US

[GJC Web Design]

well then there is no solution apart from employing a magician.... unless u know of some flag that says
hello, I'm google merchant and today I'm checking EU prices

[Studio 42]

Hin
How you set your google shopping id's ?
If you have 2 language then you need 2 ids and this should solve your problem.
My google merchant tool provide 1 id per langue so you don't have this problem. Because the url and the ID is not the same in google merchant.
eg <g:id>fr-FR1</g:id> and <g:id>en-GB1</g:id> for product with ID 1
See here the google merchand RSS test files:
en-GB> http://shop.st42.fr/en/component/vmg_export?lang=en&location=en-GB
fr-FR> http://shop.st42.fr/fr/component/vmg_export?lang=fr&location=fr-FR

Link to the tool http://shop.st42.fr/en/products/virtuemart-google-merchand.htm
If it not work, simply contact me  to find a solution and i refund it, if we cannot solve your problem.