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Originally Posted by sosidge
Most free sites are based on the osCommerce architecture which is a completely live stock system (if required), over-ordering is impossible.
In-store purchases are slightly more complex, depending on the layout of your shop and the number of customers you have it is harder to track stock, obviously you don't want to take items out of a customers basket because it had been ordered online the night before! However the instances when this will happen are very rare. Look at a shop like Modelsport or Microtech and they basically run a "trade counter" operation.
As you say, correct stock control as it comes in and goes out is fundamental in any business and I'm sure a shop the size of DMS have a strong system in place for that.
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Yeah, although my last order from Modelsport had an out of stock item missing when it was in stock in the website when I ordered. In fact somewhere about a third of my orders from them have exactly the same, in stock items becoming out of stock!