Snails - Response on Threads Part 7

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SilverBear

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MOWING BREAK!!!

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:lol:

I think I'm stuck in an infinite loop* with a vendor. :laugh: It started last Thursday.
I put an item into a cart, just so I will not forget it when ready to order. About an
hour later, I get an eMail saying a product in my cart is out of stock. "Do you want
to be notified when the item is back in stock?" Sure! Let me know. About an hour
later, an eMail arrives mentioning the item is back in stock! "Do you want to add it
to your shopping cart?" Sure! Add it back in... and I'm whisked over to my cart. But
I'm not buying yet. About an hour later, I get an eMail saying a product in my cart is
out of stock. "Do you want to be notified when the item is back in stock?" Sure!
Let me know. About an hour later, an eMail arrives mentioning the item is back in
stock! "Do you want to add it to your shopping cart?" Sure! Add it back in... and
I'm whisked over to my cart. But I'm not buying yet. About an hour later...

etc etc etc, and so on and so on and so forth!!!

:) :lol: :)


* - I have the power to end it by either: buying it right away - or - not putting
it back in the cart. ...I think.
 
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oldbikeguy

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    * - I have the power to end it by either: buying it right away - or - not putting
    it back in the cart. ...I think.


    Send them an email telling them you sold vacuum's door to door for 30 years and don't fall for high pressure sales tactics :lol:
     

    AttyPops

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    MIGHT be something like this:
    If you have something in your cart, it has "reserved" an item for you...at least for a period of time. Looks like that time is about an hour. After the hour, it's "releases" the item back to inventory so someone else can buy it, because you're "camping" on it.

    If you have the last one, then it goes from being the last one+reserved, (out of stock for anyone else), and then gets released after timeout, so it's "in stock again", and then you reserve it again, so then it's "out of stock" again, etc.

    Vicious cycle with the one remaining item. They need to work the kinks out of that process flow and allow for the last-item-while-camping-exception issue somehow in their server-side app.
     

    oldbikeguy

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    MIGHT be something like this:
    If you have something in your cart, it has "reserved" an item for you...at least for a period of time. Looks like that time is about an hour. After the hour, it's "releases" the item back to inventory so someone else can buy it, because you're "camping" on it.

    If you have the last one, then it goes from being the last one+reserved, (out of stock for anyone else), and then gets released after timeout, so it's "in stock again", and then you reserve it again, so then it's "out of stock" again, etc.

    Vicious cycle with the one remaining item. They need to work the kinks out of that process flow and allow for the last-item-while-camping-exception issue somehow in their server-side app.

    Sounds like a plausible explanation to me :D
     
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