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Re: Yet another reason to use DBI placeholders

by zentara (Archbishop)
on Dec 12, 2008 at 20:55 UTC ( [id://730044]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Yet another reason to use DBI placeholders

I doubt you want your customers ........allowed to buy an $80,000 widget for $5.

Just curious, with all the legalities on the net now, does that ever really happen, unless there is a complete failure of management? Are online stores obliged to fulfill a purchase, If there was some sort of hacking or other subtrefuge/clerical error involved? It's like those banks who send out million dollar checks in error....they always seem to recover the money. I can see a 20 or 30 dollar price error having to be honored, because the purchaser may very well believe that is a deal......but when it's $79,995 off,.....both parties must know something is wrong.


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Re^2: Yet another reason to use DBI placeholders
by TGI (Parson) on Dec 12, 2008 at 22:10 UTC

    It all depends how automated your order fulfillment system is. And what information the people involved have.

    If all the person in charge of completing a work order to fulfill the customer order only knows that Customer X needs to have Product Y shipped for delivery on Tuesday, then no one would know about the billing error for a while.

    If the error is smaller, say a $20 item for $5, the error might not be caught unless there is a sudden surge in orders.

    This kind of thing could get ugly.


    TGI says moo

Re^2: Yet another reason to use DBI placeholders
by DStaal (Chaplain) on Dec 12, 2008 at 20:57 UTC

    Management would probably figure out a way to cancel the error.

    And fire the programmer who let it in.

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