[PLUG] eCommerce Special Deals

Tyrell Jentink tyrell at jentink.net
Sun Jul 29 19:36:22 UTC 2018


It's not even true that "nobody who does on line sales would do such a
thing."

OnePlus, a maker of high end specialty Android phones, recently released a
bluetooth in-ear headphone with lots of pre-release blog hype. The device
itself has been released in small batches, always at 10am PST in the US;
There is a different launch time in Europe, and a third in Asia, also 10am
in one of their local timezones... They seem to always sell out in mere
minutes of the link going live, so the gimmick is working for them. They
don't currently have a release scheduled, so I can't give you a link, but
it at least conceptually proves that this is DEFINITELY a "Thing that is
done in ecommerce", for pretty much the same set of reasons you would do it
in regular commerce, not the least of which to drive demand and hype.

So this admin is obviously full of bunk...

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018, 11:47 Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is part of a club management system called Wild Apricot. Working with
> our webmaster is a real challenge. More organizational politics than
> anything I guess.
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 7:10 AM, Michael Rasmussen <michael at jamhome.us>
> wrote:
>
> > On 2018-07-28 20:38, Michael Barnes wrote:
> >
> >> Not really specifically a Linux thing, but you are the best group of
> folks
> >> I have access to.
> >>
> >> Considering an online store, we have an issue of a special sale coming
> up
> >> of a limited number of a product. We expect this item to be in high
> demand
> >> and folks will be waiting in line to purchase. We would like to announce
> >> the sale will start at Noon Pacific Time on the chosen date. We felt
> this
> >> would give the most customers an even chance to purchase as opposed to
> >> starting at some seemingly random time.
> >>
> >> First, does this seem like a logical concept? Our webmaster claims it is
> >> not doable with our current software. He says he can only have the sale
> >> start at midnight, but he is unable to determine what time zone that
> >> particular midnight is, whether it is our Pacific time or whatever time
> >> zone the host server happens to be in (which we do not actually know).
> He
> >> also claims no known ecommerce software allows this and nobody who does
> on
> >> line sales would do such a thing.
> >>
> >> I would guess it is not unlike buying tickets to a movie on line and
> >> waiting until they go on sale to purchase and there only being a small
> >> number available.
> >>
> >
> > Any CMS worth its name allows publication at and after a specific time.
> > I'd press the webmaster.
> > If you share your CMS software/platform someone here may be able to point
> > out how it's done on that platform.
> >
> > --
> >       Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
> >     Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity
> >
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