Those were also my thoughts Bill. The person wouldn't have to find the spikes, simply review the ones reported.
I can't say what the transaction volume/min on a given item is... but I can imagine were not talking about something like 50 Pentax K-7's or 10 Nikon D3x's sold per minute. The software could even track inventory data and regularly update a database containing sales volume per item in a time frame, last month, last week, yesterday, last hour, last minute. If at any point, a threshhold is crossed, the software would run the proverbial red flag up the flagpole, temporarily suspend sales of the item, and generate high priority e-mails, pages, or phone calls to the appropriate personnel to alert them. If not excessive, I think most businesses view pricing errors as a cost of doing business and to some degree it's already reflected in the selling price, just like shrinks, returns, damages, etc. Tom C. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:19 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > What you'd need is an item tracker to find spikes and a person who's > responsibility it is to track back to the website to see if the spike is > caused by incorrect pricing. > It would mean having someone with the ability to correct pricing errors > manning a terminal 24/7, but considering that B&H and it's ilk has done a > very effective job of killing B&M stores by not employing people, perhaps it > would only be fair to ask them to hire a few people whose job is to keep > them honest. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
