Chris, et al --

...and then Chris W. Parker said...
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% Would it be too complicated to say "5 in inventory, 2 of those are in
% customer shopping carts"? Or something along those lines?

I shouldn't think so; it would be a bit of extra work, but not a big
deal.  If you did, then I'd have a notice somewhere that an item in an
old cart might get sold out from under the buyer (especially if there's
any real or implied guarantee of availability).

I would imagine that Amazon, from another example, has at least this
level or perhaps even doesn't note the stock as "gone".  Surely it would
kill them if I ordered 432 copies of my buddy's book, waited until they
said that they had stock again, and then repeated the process.


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% Chris.
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% p.s. Does anyone know of any mailing lists that deal with e-commerce and
% shopping cart design (code/implementation/logic/etc.)???

I don't, but if you find one I'd be interested.


HTH & HAND

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