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Subject: 
Re: Coming Soon ... Brickbay.com (Replacement for Bricks)
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lugnet.market.shopping
Date: 
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...

Looks good, doesn't it?  :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

   
         
   
Subject: 
Re: Coming Soon ... Brickbay.com (Replacement for Bricks)
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lugnet.market.shopping
Date: 
Fri, 19 May 2000 17:41:30 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Dan Jezek writes:
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 think this would be best for a number of reasons.  One is that if your
system stores each transaction as a separate entity, it would probably be
easier to have each transaction contain a single buyer and seller, as opposed
to a single buyer and three sellers.  That way a buyer who made purchases from
three different sellers could check in on the status of them (I think you
mentioned the seller could update the status - maybe noting a shipping date or
something) individually.  I know it could be done with multiple sellers, but
it would seem to be easier with one seller and one buyer per transaction.

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.

Sounds good - maybe when the checkout is processed and the system discovers
the items you wanted were just bought by someone else a warning of some kind
could pop up, giving the buyer the ability to reconsider the (now) smaller
purchase?

   
         
   
Subject: 
Re: Coming Soon ... Brickbay.com (Replacement for Bricks)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.shopping
Date: 
Fri, 19 May 2000 18:49:17 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Dan Jezek writes:
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 agree separate checkout for each store is a good idea but it would be cool
if each buyer could have more than one shopping cart open at a time.

In a mall you go to one store and look for everything on your list, then go to
another store and repeat the process. At your site buyers have the option to
look for one piece at every store, then look for the next piece at every
store. Sure, you could track your findings by hand then run through each store
individually to make your purchases but putting items in separate carts as you
go would be a lot more efficient.

Or maybe it's all in one cart that's displayed broken down by store but when
you're ready to buy you cycle through purchase finalization steps multiple
times. I haven't seen anything like this in action but as long as you make it
clear that each separate store in a cart means another checkout (and another
shipping charge) I'd think users would glom onto the workings pretty quickly.

I don't see this as a make-or-break option though, at least on start-up. Maybe
a cool future enhancement.

Doug

 

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