Thread: Please Show Some Respect for Your Potential Clients!

I'm not going to name any names. And I am not a vendor so I don't understand the code of vendors, but I am getting pretty tired of clicking on items and seeing SOLD OUT following the item number and the price. Please, stop wasting my time. If you have sold something, I rejoice in the increase in your good fortune but have the decency to then place the sold items in their own spot on your website. Many vendors do this. Try a name like SOLD! If I have limited time this allows me to come back when I have more time to see what your inventory used to be, and possibly what I might see in the future. I've done this plenty of times. But if the psychology of padding your pages with items you no longer have and posting prices with them (especially something like a stone which will never be there again), enough. I'm sure there are multiple reasons for this practice but none of them are good. Just be honest.

I agree. I hate to admit how many tines I tried to buy the same razor that has been sold out for a year !

Thats why on my website there are no prices,no buy it now, no paypal,you want something? you have to email me.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Thats why on my website there are no prices,no buy it now, no paypal,you want something? you have to email me.

As I have looked at several websites, I see the same. I think it seems to be a general way to show perspective customers what you can do and have done. I would bet it is common for other collectible things as well.
Just need to email them!
(You really should do Paypal, Pixel! Why are you not a vendor?)

I want to know what you can do now, not what might have happened 2 years ago or more. I'm taking up valuable work time surfing these sites, I need some meat on the bones. I've seen pixelfixed phenomenal work and he could just post a small inventory if he had something on hand, and a gallery of his past work....then PM the guy...hey, can you make a 2 band honey badger..........it makes so much more sense to do it this way instead of leaving sold items with prices and item numbers on sites for months or even years.....if you are in the buying mood this just makes me move down the line.

Originally Posted by WW243

I want to know what you can do now, not what might have happened 2 years ago or more. I'm taking up valuable work time surfing these sites, I need some meat on the bones. .

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I always thought that was a trick to lure customers to buy what they actually do have - a classic bait and switch. There are a few blades I've been looking for for years, Googled them repeatedly and got lots of results, only to find absolutely no one actually has any. I was so pissed that I ignored the few other items they did have that I MIGHT have been willing to buy had it not felt like I'd just been played. Simply the bait and switch routine from what I can see.

Gentlemen, why not just raise the issue concerning you with the vendors in question on their websites.

Originally Posted by lz6

Gentlemen, why not just raise the issue concerning you with the vendors in question on their websites.

Well the first place i thought of was SRD. I clicked through dozens of razors to see what this other guy was complaining about in a post the other day. He wanted to buy a razor, but couldn't find anything but "sold out" after "sold out". He was right. VERY few razors could be purchased (hard to find ONE), very many listed with prices, and you can't tell the stock status until you've made the selection.

I gave up trying to find one (as the OP had), but somebody else eventually posted two or three that were available to that thread.

But small biz is tough, so I didn't fuss about it. (Hope they're selling a lot of product.) I just shop other places, because I waste enough time online, i don't need it COMPOUNDED by clicking through to the very end where you find out the product is out of stock.

I hope for the sake of SRD they figger out a way to fix this issue. I don't know the other guys.

I'm not really interested in any new production razors, but I feel bad for recommending an empty catalog to new/interested shavers.

Strops they got. or had. ?

Originally Posted by WadePatton

Well the first place i thought of was SRD. I clicked through dozens of razors to see what this other guy was complaining about in a post the other day. He wanted to buy a razor, but couldn't find anything but "sold out" after "sold out". He was right. VERY few razors could be purchased (hard to find ONE), very many listed with prices, and you can't tell the stock status until you've made the selection.

I gave up trying to find one (as the OP had), but somebody else eventually posted two or three that were available to that thread.

But small biz is tough, so I didn't fuss about it. (Hope they're selling a lot of product.) I just shop other places, because I waste enough time online, i don't need it COMPOUNDED by clicking through to the very end where you find out the product is out of stock.

I hope for the sake of SRD they figger out a way to fix this issue. I don't know the other guys.

I'm not really interested in any new production razors, but I feel bad for recommending an empty catalog to new/interested shavers.

Strops they got. or had. ?

Oh! Faux pas. Something's wrong in Denmark. I suggest those complaining should realize what goes into intricate razor work, yet maintaining a website and shipping, receiving, communicating, etc before complaining about this. These guys are craftsmen. You gotta get in line. Simple as that. 10 to 1 you could message them about something you want and they would answer promptly. Give it a go and let us know!