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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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NEOCLASSICAL
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I know I have ranted on this before, but I'm having another rant, as this time they have wasted even more time.
I am sure the previous rant was along the lines of website advertising on their websites as 'In Stock', only to then receive an email after placing an order to be told out of stock.
Now, fair enough some stock system my not manage large order processing, shopping basket allocation etc. and an email shortly after is an inconvenience but no great shakes.
I received an email today, notifying me that an order placed last week is out of stock and wont be back in stock to next week (maybe). Now it wasn't just one item, but a bunch of things......... The have put the order on HOLD pending my instruction (although the have taken my money of the CC)
Now, found another supplier that I have used before showing everything I want as in stock, so placed an order with them and wait to see if get an order despatch before cancelling the other one.
Oh the joys.
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No, we update stock levels daily.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Daily? What is this 1850?
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DaveAuld wrote: The have put the order on HOLD pending my instruction (although the have taken my money of the CC)
They're not supposed to do that. They can pre-authorize the payment, but they're not supposed to actually take the money until the order has been shipped.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Something similar happened to me with the result of me now owning two bass guitars instead of one 
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How many arms have you got? 
Do you come from Norfolk? (Think "Alabama" for our Colonial Friends)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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actually I have 6 guitars and my son has an ukulele.
We also have a piano and 3 harmonica's. 
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V. wrote: my son has an ukulele
That's just cruel and unusual punishment.
Is his nickname Formby? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I play it too and it is actually much fun
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Since when are two Basses a problem? 
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who said it was a problem? 
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A few years back I went through a half dozen or so rounds of:
1) It's in stock
2) Order placed, CC charged
3) A few days to a week later, out of stock order cancelled
courtesy of sunshines running sites apparently based around drop-shipping products direct from the manufacturer instead of holding any inventory who hadn't bothered to update their elephanting site when the item was discontinued. Eventually I did find a vendor who actually had one in stock.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I am creating an online shopping cart but ... well inventory is a tricky subject.
1) I have to account for manufacturing loss, it could have been in stock when you ordered
2) I don't want my inventory stored online so it is a temp DB that is updated routinely
3) A lot of pre-fab carts don't truly support real inventory but a mock inventory with quantity (one of the reasons I dumped Shopify) so it can really take a programmer to implement.
Bottom-line, who knew that doing it right was actually a challenge? From the other side, I wish the tools available worked better, you either go with a full solution that is so bloated it accounts for everything and requires a hex-core Pentium extreme future edition to run or you go hosted which is the "vendors" way or you have to write it yourself. And I thought online commerce was a solved market too!
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THAT'S interesting.
Wiring a front end website to inventory management system can only be as good as the inventory management system, to be sure.
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The bubble burst on my optimism back when I was fiending for the new version of Delphi (in the early 2000s.) I knew it hadn't been released, but someone said they had it in stock.
Aghast, I called them up just to play dumb and harass them. I spent 10 minutes "expressing my concerns that it would be shipped on time" before telling the salesderp that I knew it wasn't out for 2 weeks yet and Whither Yon Pachyderm did they think they were doing.
Now I only deal with a couple vendors for stuff technology. Tiger/Newegg/Amazon. Anyone else can go hang.
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mikepwilson wrote: Whither Yon Pachyderm
Worth an up-vote just for that phrase!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Not gonna lie, I spent WAY too much time on that and have been waiting for an excuse to use it.
#nerd
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I like the yearly April Fools jokes that Chris and the team play but think we should get a bit of our own back next year?
I thought about..
1.) Nobody logging in - Obviously not going to work.
2.) Hitting sugs & bugs with fake bugs - Probably not very social
3.) Speaking in French all day - There must be better ideas
4.) All changing our profile pic to some pre-defined image.
There must be some better ideas out there? (Hopefully they would have forgot by the time it comes around)
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DDoS?
Edit: For those who didn't get my point, it was a joke.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
modified 29-Apr-14 8:43am.
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I only upvoted this because it made me giggle, not because of the serious threat.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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P0mpey Returns wrote: 4.) All changing our profile pic to some pre-defined image.
this[^].
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P0mpey Returns wrote: some better ideas
5. The current incarnation of Pompey never logs-in again. That will leave all of us in stitches.
cheers, Bill
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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