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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 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?
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