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 don't know much about it, but I'm thinking this is just a software or web design thing. I'm pretty sure no one's trying to "trick" anyone or deliberately frustrate you, they are simply working within the limitations of the web design they purchased.

If it helps, think of it like this. You want an old fashioned shave with an old fashioned razor? Well, develop some old fashioned patience like they did in the old days when it took 6 months by slow boat for your Sheffield blade order to get to the colonies!

James