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What are you talking about? Ticketmaster (or any other ticket seller) and airlines already use a system that handles this exact problem. When you need to sell a high-demand, limited stock item you set a time limit on the cart. Simple...done.Walmart and all online retailers have to worry about people who place items in their cart and then do not check out. It's unfair to allow someone to hold an item in their cart for an extended period of time. Because of this, online retailers will show items in stock until the last one has been checked out and the payment method has been approved.
Show Out of Stock when the last one is added to a cart:
This allows me to add one to my cart and hold it until I can get the price I want for it. I can hold it for minutes, hours, or even days. Meanwhile hundreds, if not thousands, of people come to the site only to see the item is sold out. Meanwhile, bidding my my EBay auction has driven the price up to several thousand dollars. When the bidding ends, I find that the winning bidder has no intention of actually paying for the item. So for a week now, this item has been sitting in limbo in my cart while hundreds or thousands of people have passed by their site because they were (out of stock). Of course, not being able or willing to pay for it myself, now I have to delete it from my cart.
Show Out of Stock when the last one is Payment Confirmed:
This allows multiple people to add the item to their carts, but if there are only 10 in stock, only the first ten to have their payment information confirmed we have their check out confirmed. All others will get an an Out of Stock message when they try to check out. While this method does not help with scalpers using bots, it does confirm the item is truly out of stock
There is no solution to this conundrum, aside from providing a unit for every person on the planet. The second method has been deemed by various (most?) online retailers as the most fair. People can yell, scream, and complain all they want, but a better action would be patience. Quit worrying about getting one on release day and wait until there is sufficient stock to get one without it suddenly going out of stock while it's in your shopping cart.
-Wolf sends
I was trying to wait all fricken day to get the ps5 on the PlayStation website and now it’s under maintenance it’s bull. I wait all day to get this wow!!Having a hard time down a new PS5? We can help you find which stores have the console in stock.
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