combs
Member Since: January 8, 2013
Country: United States
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Things like displays and tubes come at a great price from stock of larger companies who no longer need the parts. This is usually a great route for providing cost-efficient designs. What concerns me as a larger purveyor of products is the limited stock of said parts. I don’t think I have to explain that low-cost electronics sell extremely well. So what happens when the stock of your low-cost parts run out?
cough cough qdsp-6064
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10 segment, or 8?
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Maybe you could reserve them in the cart for a short period of time, and then release them. Or reserve them during the checkout process for up to 15 minutes. Many ticket sales web sites seem to do this.
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Or maybe it’s randomly offered when you are checking out with another order. “Random surprise! Would you also like to add a Dumpster Dive box to your order for $20?”
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It’d be cool if we could just backorder them at any time, to be fulfilled whenever you assemble more of the boxes progressively through the year. Rather than the annual gold rush. This could reward our community for building a longer-term relationship with SparkFun.
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So I got a “Backorder Confirmation” e-mail. What’s that mean?
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Yeah, your servers melted.
No public wish lists :(