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Re: Bulk Orders Online DB: useful?
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:44:52 GMT
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Troy Cefaratti <mnementh@nacsSAYNOTOSPAM.net>
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Randy,
How would you ensure that one person, or a small group of people, didn't
skew the result in their favor by requesting the parts they want a million
times or something like that?
Troy
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Randy Anchikoski <ranch@writeme.com> wrote in message
news:Ft847u.os@lugnet.com...
> With the ability to purchase many of a single element directly from TLG in
> the not-to-distant future, I had the idea of developing an on-line • database
> to track demand for an individual element.
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> My initial idea was to simply take online requests based on the • colour-type
> combination, or element # ideally. The results of the requests would be
> publicly available in HTML format, or Excel/Access/CSV--whatever.
> Individuals would have the ability to add, subtract, & modify their • entries.
> The site would not be 'secure' in that I don't have SSL, and everything is
> in plain text. However, there is no intention of handling any money or
> transactions, just supply data to the web community. There are many
> inherent faults in this concept, but would it be useful? To TLG? To the
> community?
>
> Randy
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> Randy Anchikoski
> bigguy@teradesigns.tzo.com
>
>
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| (...) It sounds like he's envisioning something that would "track" the things you wanted - so you would say something like, "I want 20 1x5x6 grey castle walls", and it'd show up: Troy Cefaretti, 20 grey castle walls. If I wanted them too, I'd put in (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| With the ability to purchase many of a single element directly from TLG in the not-to-distant future, I had the idea of developing an on-line database to track demand for an individual element. My initial idea was to simply take online requests (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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