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Re: Coming Soon ... Brickbay.com (Replacement for Bricks)
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Fri, 19 May 2000 11:21:47 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Mike Stanley writes:
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > > I've been working on a more sophisticated version of what you see here:
> > > http://www.aloha.net/~danjezek/lego_sale.html
> >
> > Ooooh...
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> Looks good, doesn't it? :)
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> > As a buyer, I would like to be able in put in a list of parts, not just one • at
> > a time, and have it return a list of who can satisfy my demand. Vendors who
> > have them all, could appear first.
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> Not only that, I think the functionality of being able to create your own
> wants-list, like Larry and Tom have now, and have the system store those and
> then e-mail you when those parts do become available.
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> And maybe on the sellers' side, when I enter an inventory (which could maybe
> someday mean entering in a set number and the number of copies I have of it),
> the system could identify buyers who have those items on their wants lists.
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> > As an offshoot of what Larry said, if I could put muliple vendors' product
> > into
> > my shopping cart and then make one payment for all of it that would be wildly
> > more attractive from the buyer's perspective, not just the sellers which was
> > Larry's focus.
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> Ah, that would be easy (depending on how you look at it) for the buyers but it
> could also be a nightmare. Assuming you could submit a single payment (maybe
> to someone who could then disperse it to the individual sellers, and only via
> something like Paypal or X.com (I can say that as a seller I am this close ->
> <- to only accepting electronic payment - too many trips to the bank to
> deposit $5 here, $11 there), there would have to be some sort of added fee for
> that (nobody's time is free). But think of the potential shipping costs. You
> buy from 4 sellers, maybe only $2.00 worth from each, so an $8 order. You
> could, conceivably, end up paying as much or more total to have those 4 people
> ship items to you...
I'm really leaning towards the solution that you couldn't buy from more
multiple sellers at a time. You'll have to checkout at each individual store
first before buying from the next one. Just like in a real life shopping
mall, you either pay for the items you buy before leaving the store, return
the items back where you got them from or just leave them and let the store
empoyees clean them up. Brickbay should function just like that.
I've also given a lot of thought to this:
When you add items to your cart, it will not be subtracted from the inventory
until you checkout. This means that if someone else adds the same items to
their cart and checks out first (while you have them in your cart), your
portion will not be processed when YOU checkout.
If the items were subtracted from inventory right when you add them to your
cart and the buyer just left the site without checking out and without
emptying their cart, the items would just sit in the cart possiby forever and
things could get really messy.
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