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On 05/03/02 02:49 PM, Fenn Bailey wrote:<br>
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On that note,</font></span></div>
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I have been throwing around the idea of having a phone numbers as manditory
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What are people's opinions on this?</font></span></div>
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yeah, maybe.<br>
here are a few points you may want to consider.<br>
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The problem is getting people to behave.<br>
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Contact and communication.<br>
Making people pay puts the onus on the user to contact the owner of the bulk
buy and is a better way to ensure they contact you than giving different
methods that you can contact them. <br>
that way all is ease and comfort. they have to contact you not the other
way around. <br>
If someone is contactable, then it'll all work by whatever method<br>
Email seems to be logical as this is an email forum! do you really want
to be making a couple of hundred phone calls?<br>
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even with the best intentions, people have trouble communicating. payment
at the time of order will atleast reduce the contact points to a (potential)
minimum of 2 - one to order and one to pickup or deliver...<br>
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Now that having been said, that leads to a single point of failure - the
bulk buy owner. but better a single point of failure (that cannot actually
be avoided) than several dozen...<br>
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