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"EXTRA EXTRA GAMEADAY PRIZE"

This one closes on April 1st, but it's not an April fool.

Over the coming weeks we are upgrading our search engine. It's having a triple destructurisation operation and invisible lurking terms enhancements.

The prize will go to the person who finds the MOST VALID PROBLEMS across our WHOLE PRODUCT RANGE in the SEARCH FACILITY.

If you think you should be able to search on "Horror Movies", but nothing comes up, then add it to your list.

If you think people will mis-spell gran turismo, then add that too - but test it first.

Use short lists if possible but multiple posts will count together. i.e. all your posts on this subject will add up and count towards the prize.

Closes 9 am on April 1st, 2001.

I recommend you read the details of our searching process which you can click to from a link at Site Map. Basically we use the start of a word, so a search on "thunder" will find "thunderball". If several words are combined it must find all.

a) The game is down because it had a particularly bad week at work and the kids were playing up again

b) It fell of the shelf when they were being counted.

c) It's gone down in price.

Hey Tony, when a game has the word "Down" next to it, what does it mean?

The stock subject is a little tricky to explain here, but basically a "live" stock system could well be less accurate than our current system, which is updated once per day (after some serious cross checking has taken place).

This does mean that occassionally the days sales will take us into a oversold position for an "IN STOCK" item, but by this time replacement stock will have already been ordered, so it should be on its way to us. So the delay should be short.

Likewise, the goods we receive each day are added to the stock at the end of the day, so it is possible that an item showing out of stock is actually in stock.

There's no cure other than to say "LOW" for low stock items, but even this is still likely to be more misleading (useless) than a YES/NO answer.

BUT, that's not the subject of this topic - any more failed sarches?

I dunno... if an item is going to take a couple of weeks before its delivered.... or wether it'll be comming in the next stock run does make a difference to my buying choices...

I thought there was?

In Stock/Out of Stock.

Good enough for me. :)

SNIPER wrote:
> Should there be a way to check the stock level of the games you
> have? YES doesn't mean the next buyer will get it with a high demand
> game.

Do you mean like at Buy.com where they have the '2-3 weeks', 'out of stock', 'In stock' options?

Should there be a way to check the stock level of the games you have? YES doesn't mean the next buyer will get it with a high demand game.

just a couple more...

'Educational' returns only a couple of results...

&

'Memory' returns console expansions and Digital cameras... but no PC Memory

Speaking of which...

'Special Offers' & 'Offers' all return unsual results (offers returns a list of DIMMS)

'News' returns a seemingly random list?

Although since there are links to both just above the search engine, this may be a moot point?

Grix Thraves wrote:
> Arrrrruuuuukkkkeeeeeennnn?


Well yes I am! I am the Ken that Tony mentioned. I have been reading all the comments so far. Hmmm very interesting. Good suggestions. Remember Tony's words "MOST VALID PROBLEMS across our WHOLE PRODUCT RANGE" will win the prize!