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we have the shopping cart set to time out at 15 minutes.
here is what it says:
"Basket Timeout (Minutes)
Defines the time a shopper's basket can be left without any action (additions, removals, changes of quantity) before it expires. The default is 60 minutes. You can set any limit up to 1440 minutes (24 hours).
Just like in a brick–and–mortar store items that are in shopping baskets are removed from your inventory. Sometimes customers will change their minds or something comes up and they leave their baskets without checking out. If enough products accumulate in abandoned baskets it can appear that your store has run out of them.
When the basket expires at the time limit you set, the items in the basket are returned to inventory.
To determine the right time limit for your store consider the impact on your inventory levels of having items left in abandoned baskets and the potential for your customers to be interrupted (by a phone call, for instance). You want to avoid appearing to be out of items that are simply tied up in forgotten baskets and avoid frustrating shoppers by dumping their baskets while they are still browsing in your store.
Expired baskets should be deleted regularly, to clear the order numbers from the database."
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the reason a couple hundred knives disappear so fast is because most people buy more than one. we have some people who have always bought 5 of them (i haven't seen any of these up for resale yet) we also have some trolls who just add a couple of hundred to f@ck with the legitimate buyers.
i used to get pretty pissed off about this but have now decided to just post the inventory as we receive it and at a time thats fair from coast to coast.
more knives you say? i know jerry has 3 shifts running full time, and is out looking for extra machinery as i type this. he has also built a new building at his compound every year since I've been collecting busse's.
and that's pretty good for a guy who buys a bottle of Johnny walker blue twice a day!!
here is what it says:
"Basket Timeout (Minutes)
Defines the time a shopper's basket can be left without any action (additions, removals, changes of quantity) before it expires. The default is 60 minutes. You can set any limit up to 1440 minutes (24 hours).
Just like in a brick–and–mortar store items that are in shopping baskets are removed from your inventory. Sometimes customers will change their minds or something comes up and they leave their baskets without checking out. If enough products accumulate in abandoned baskets it can appear that your store has run out of them.
When the basket expires at the time limit you set, the items in the basket are returned to inventory.
To determine the right time limit for your store consider the impact on your inventory levels of having items left in abandoned baskets and the potential for your customers to be interrupted (by a phone call, for instance). You want to avoid appearing to be out of items that are simply tied up in forgotten baskets and avoid frustrating shoppers by dumping their baskets while they are still browsing in your store.
Expired baskets should be deleted regularly, to clear the order numbers from the database."
.
.
.
.
the reason a couple hundred knives disappear so fast is because most people buy more than one. we have some people who have always bought 5 of them (i haven't seen any of these up for resale yet) we also have some trolls who just add a couple of hundred to f@ck with the legitimate buyers.
i used to get pretty pissed off about this but have now decided to just post the inventory as we receive it and at a time thats fair from coast to coast.
more knives you say? i know jerry has 3 shifts running full time, and is out looking for extra machinery as i type this. he has also built a new building at his compound every year since I've been collecting busse's.
and that's pretty good for a guy who buys a bottle of Johnny walker blue twice a day!!
