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(...) Hi OnDrew "perpetual stock" is stock that never depletes. On BL, when someone orders ALL of you remaining stock, it automatically deletes the entry completely from your inventory. In Lar's case, he does NOT want a lot deleted when the item (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) this is what i thought it ment but i wanted to be sure. a simple change of the quanity to some rediculus number like 20,000 would fix the problem. i'm still however curious as to what larry would have an unlimited stock of. ondrew (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) He (or anyone) would theoretically have unlimited stock of a service performed after the order is placed [1]. You wouldn't want to change the stock to an obscenely high number as that would skew your inventory stats in a decieving way. Rather, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Does that not assume that the service provider's time is unlimited? I’d argue that a hobbyist would have a finite ability to offer a service. In the commercial world a non-specialist service provider would simply find a subcontractor, but a (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) You could argue that -- it may become undesireable to list a service with infinite quantity if the service proves too popular ... I think that's best left up to the user, though. It would be a neat feature -- and I at least don;t it would skew (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) But then the buyer has the risk of buying/ordering a service which is not available? In theory, I suppose the system could be set to offer no more than X sales per time-period or offer customers an indication of the estimated waiting time(?). (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) A user requested this thread be moved to market.brickshops -- didn't think of it before but I agree, so I reset the FUTs. -Tim (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.brickshops, FTX)
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ONDREW HARTIGAN wrote in message ... (...) It's not so much unlimited stock, as continually replenished stock, AND a complicated non-standard description, for items like a custom kit (as Larry and I both sell on BL) or in my case, custom instruction (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) It won't be quite as easy as being able to replenish stock from 0 quantity, but if it's so much trouble to reenter the info, have you considered setting up TXT files with the various bits so you can just cut and paste instead of having to (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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Purple Dave wrote in message ... (...) but (...) TXT (...) to (...) it (...) Been there, done that :-) It's still a a nuisance, and the more of them you have, the more of a nuisance it is. Many of my kits are simply not on BL because I got fed up (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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