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Re: WB store sale
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Wed, 26 Jan 2000 02:42:42 GMT
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cjc@=stopspammers=newsguy.com
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:13:02 GMT, Tony Priestman
<Tony@you-rang.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Mike Stanley writes:
> > What else are they supposed to do
> > - produce them out of thin air?
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> Hey! Here's a neat idea!
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> Why don't they *just sell the stuff they own*
Well, come on. Really. Do you think every single place you order
from is located in a giant warehouse with acres of merchandise sitting
there, just ready to go out?
The reality is places start clearing stuff out, and maybe through a
glitch, or heck, maybe through something like a distributor error or
miscalculation or whatever, find out that unlike most of the rest of
the time, when they submit orders that such and such be shipped from
some distributor warehouse to you, the distributor can't fulfill it,
either in a timely manner or at all. It happens, and the more you buy
online, the more you'll have to deal with it.
Doesn't make it pleasant to deal with, but something that _works_ 99%
of the time is still not working that 1%. And nothing works 100% of
the time.
> If I offered to sell 10 8855s, took the orders, and then said, "Oh,
> sorry, I haven't got ten.' I would get flamed to a crisp.
Right. But you're not selling to potentially tens of thousands or
more people - you're pulling something out of your closet.
--
The parts you want and nothing else?
http://jaba.dtrh.com/ - Just Another Brick Auction
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| Yes, but... Companies that hide behind "we goofed up" are within their rights. They're just not as well regarded as those that stand behind their offers. Ali V. told me of a tale... seems he had found a store that sold 4558s in Japan somewhere. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| Ah, but a point you are missing is that when someone in here was on the phone with WB right around the same time as many of us were ordering, and they said they were out of the clearance stuff on the website, but had them in their CATALOG sales at (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Ok, I confess, I'm a dangerous idealist. But for a company which sells things, two of its most valuable assets are its inventory and its customers' goodwill. WB don't seem to be good at managing either. Again, I have no axe to grind here, just (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: WB store sale
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| (...) Hey! Here's a neat idea! Why don't they *just sell the stuff they own* If I offered to sell 10 8855s, took the orders, and then said, "Oh, sorry, I haven't got ten.' I would get flamed to a crisp. What annoys me is the incompetence of the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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