Re: What other retailers will get 15c LE? Message #10 Posted by M. Joury on 16 Sept 2011, 11:16 p.m., in response to message #6 by Eric Rechlin
If that is the case why are some out of stock and some just beginning to ship?
I know that this was discussed before but that never got explained to my satisfaction. If they are dropped shipped, as it appears, then is there stock set aside for each retailer? That would of course explain it but it would still allow individual retailers to list "stock on hand" and retain some meaning to the numbers.
What I am getting at is that buy.com knew that they had a certain amount of units to sell and that when they were done they pulled the listing. Other retailers using the same drop shipper started actually "shipping" units after buy.com was apparently all out of stock. If everyone drop ships out of the same stock why isn't it simply first come first served and whoever sells the most wins? Seems to me that retailers have stock reserved for them. If that is the case saying that they have x number of units on hand does provide some idea of how many have been sold. Since I am not in retail this is obviously all guesswork from seeing how things played out from the moment buy.com posted the 15C through when they pulled the listing and said that they were out of stock, followed by other retailers beginning to ship.
At any rate it would appear that serial number are even more meaningless as a guide to how many a retailer had available since they can be pulled off the shelf in any order by the drop shipper.
Cheers,
-Marwan
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