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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: LPL on July 11, 2013, 05:12 pm
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Hi,
What I mean by the title is that there should be some way for vendors to limit the number of times a listing can be bought, in order to prevent more orders being made when there is no stock..
I've got an order now, made yesterday, and I've just had a message that it won't be sent until Monday. The only reason I can think of for this is a lack of stock. The item is still listed.
Let's say someone has 5 ounces of uber dank and he lists it as 8ths. there should be a way for him to limit the listing to 40 orders, to prevent people ordering and having to wait/cancel/take something else. In my mind, as soon as the 40th order gets made, the listing would automatically be removed/hidden, until the vendor gets more in and resets his listing.
Now, I'm not really moaning about it, as people do run out of things, and the vendor is going to give me some extra, but that doesn't change the fact that my plans for the weekend are now kaput.
I'm sure an option like this, wouldn't be hard for the team to integrate into the SR system.
If someone with 50 posts could copy this to the requests thread, that would be great.
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I'm not a vendor but maybe this feature already exists? If you put an item in your cart sometimes it will have a max: value near the quantity. I don't know if that's just the max for your particular order, or the max that the vendor will allow to be sold of that item.
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I'm not a vendor but maybe this feature already exists? If you put an item in your cart sometimes it will have a max: value near the quantity. I don't know if that's just the max for your particular order, or the max that the vendor will allow to be sold of that item.
I think that is a limit on the number of the item permitted in an individual purchase. so lets say someone has some really rare hash, and he wants it to go around instead of all being snapped up by one rich person, so he lists it in grams, and limits it to 2 grams per purchase.
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I am pretty sure that the number in the cart, is the number of listings the vendor have available. On numerous occasions i have seen that number slowly decline day, by day, and when it hits 0, the listing disappear until the vendor have had a chance to restock.
However i think that this number will often be an approximate, because the vendors have listings for different amounts, and these are probably not pegged to each other (if you buy a 5 G listing the number on the 1 G listing will obviously not be declining).
I am not a vendor so I am not 100% sure this is the way it works, but from what i have observed, it seems likely.
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I am pretty sure that the number in the cart, is the number of listings the vendor have available. On numerous occasions i have seen that number slowly decline day, by day, and when it hits 0, the listing disappear until the vendor have had a chance to restock.
However i think that this number will often be an approximate, because the vendors have listings for different amounts, and these are probably not pegged to each other (if you buy a 5 G listing the number on the 1 G listing will obviously not be declining).
I am not a vendor so I am not 100% sure this is the way it works, but from what i have observed, it seems likely.
Perhaps you are right then.
What annoys me, is that all the listings, in all weights are still up, so if he does have stock, and other orders went out, why didn't mine, and why do I have to wait until monday for it even to be sent.
There must be a way for a vendor to enter the total amount available, and for the SR system to automatically adjust the number available across the vendors different weight listings for the same product.