Re: how to determine if shopping cart has been abandoned?

Chris, et al -- ..and then Chris W. Parker said... % .. % % Would it be too complicated to say "5 in inventory, 2 of those are in % customer shopping carts"? Or something along those lines? I shouldn't think so; it would be a bit of extra work, but not a big deal. If you did, then I'd have a notice somewhere that an item in an old cart might get sold out from under the buyer (especially if there's any real or implied guarantee of availability). I would imagine that Amazon, from another example, has at least this level or perhaps even doesn't note the stock as "gone". Surely it would kill them if I ordered 432 copies of my buddy's book, waited until they said that they had stock again, and then repeated the process. % % Chris. % % p.s. Does anyone know of any mailing lists that deal with e-commerce and % shopping cart design (code/implementation/logic/etc.)??? I don't, but if you find one I'd be interested. HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!