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Subject:	Re: TRU venting (was Re: Prices of New Star Wars LEGO)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.shopping
Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:39:30 GMT
Reply-To:	rsanders@gate.netNOMORESPAM
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Frank Filz wrote: > > > Moral: even when the computer says 'ZERO STOCK', go and look, just to be sure. > > They may have been returns or exchanges. I could easily see these not > getting back into stock. Which goes directly to my point, the numbers in an online inventory system (for anything smaller than autos or rocket ships) should always be viewed with some expectation of being off a little. All those computer-based inventories for TRUs, KMs, WMs, etc, may be off in small ways. Humor: when a TRU tries to tell me that stock on an item is -1. [hehehe] Ray

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		Re: TRU venting (was Re: Prices of New Star Wars LEGO)
(...) I used to work at a bookstore, and we had that problem all the time. There were times when the inventory said 0, or -1 and we had one sitting on the shelf. There were also plenty of times when the inventory said 1 or 2 and we couldn't find it (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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		Re: TRU venting (was Re: Prices of New Star Wars LEGO)
(...) They may have been returns or exchanges. I could easily see these not getting back into stock. (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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