For the love of God someone build a Sportlots competitor.

System glitch (or a typo on my end) made it appear I had six of a certain Jason Bay card on Sportlots. Buyer purchases them all - but turns out I only have one.

I normally charge 70 cents for 1 card, $.75 for 2-4 cards, and $2.00 for 5 -XX (due to it going in a bubble mailer and being a "thick" package). I inform the buyer of the error, make the inventory adjustment and instead of Sportlots correcting the postage to 70 cents, it corrects it to 33 cents ($2.00 postage/6 cards). I email Sportlots about this error and surprising I am told this is how it works. Their system glitches (I do not think I indicated 6 cards as the keys on my laptop are not close to one another) and I get punished.

I know it just "cents", but it's sort of the principal of the issue to me.

I think the site owner has certain "rules" due to his lack of programming skills.

While there are plenty of good reasons for the creation of a Sportlots competitor, probable "user error" is not one of them.

Sportlots looks exactly like it performs...slow, steady and dated. But it functions.

Max does seem to have a lot of technical limitations, and there are some major ones that hold back the site...and therefore money in his pocket.

But for me to believe a server glitch turned a singular random '1' into a '6' is something I'm not buying.

200lbhockeyplayer said:

While there are plenty of good reasons for the creation of a Sportlots competitor, probable "user error" is not one of them.

Sportlots looks exactly like it performs...slow, steady and dated. But it functions.

Max does seem to have a lot of technical limitations, and there are some major ones that hold back the site...and therefore money in his pocket.

But for me to believe a server glitch turned a singular random '1' into a '6' is something I'm not buying.

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Couldn't agree more with Mike, I just didn't want to be the one to type it. I have many input errors or items that have been sold elsewhere and never taken off inventory only for someone to buy and then I have to adjust the order. Chalk it up to the cost of doing business

eCrater is amazing...but it's been slow to catch on.

prospectorgems is working on a site

200lbhockeyplayer said:

While there are plenty of good reasons for the creation of a Sportlots competitor, probable "user error" is not one of them.

Sportlots looks exactly like it performs...slow, steady and dated. But it functions.

Max does seem to have a lot of technical limitations, and there are some major ones that hold back the site...and therefore money in his pocket.

But for me to believe a server glitch turned a singular random '1' into a '6' is something I'm not buying.

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I wouldn't believe that a site could take an inventory and multiply the quantities by 3, but it did. (That was a fun mess to clean up).

It is possible that I inputed a "6", but with the distance between the two keys and errors I have seen on SL, I think a glitch is a definite possiblity.

mjbuchanan80 said:

200lbhockeyplayer said:

While there are plenty of good reasons for the creation of a Sportlots competitor, probable "user error" is not one of them.

Sportlots looks exactly like it performs...slow, steady and dated. But it functions.

Max does seem to have a lot of technical limitations, and there are some major ones that hold back the site...and therefore money in his pocket.

But for me to believe a server glitch turned a singular random '1' into a '6' is something I'm not buying.

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I wouldn't believe that a site could take an inventory and multiply the quantities by 3, but it did. (That was a fun mess to clean up).

It is possible that I inputed a "6", but with the distance between the two keys and errors I have seen on SL, I think a glitch is a definite possiblity.

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Well, if your entire inventory had the quantities multiplied by three, then clearly it was a server side data issue, however the initial post implied it was a singular occurrence and that is almost impossible to be a server/software glitch.

200lbhockeyplayer said:

mjbuchanan80 said:

200lbhockeyplayer said:

While there are plenty of good reasons for the creation of a Sportlots competitor, probable "user error" is not one of them.

Sportlots looks exactly like it performs...slow, steady and dated. But it functions.

Max does seem to have a lot of technical limitations, and there are some major ones that hold back the site...and therefore money in his pocket.

But for me to believe a server glitch turned a singular random '1' into a '6' is something I'm not buying.

Click to expand...

I wouldn't believe that a site could take an inventory and multiply the quantities by 3, but it did. (That was a fun mess to clean up).

It is possible that I inputed a "6", but with the distance between the two keys and errors I have seen on SL, I think a glitch is a definite possiblity.

Click to expand...

Well, if your entire inventory had the quantities multiplied by three, then clearly it was a server side data issue, however the initial post implied it was a singular occurrence and that is almost impossible to be a server/software glitch.

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Absolutely. Totally possible it was my error. Still think it's unfair that it cost me money because the site lacks the capabilities to properly calculate adjustments. Live and learn.

Working on it. Should be deployed soon.

justcommons.com is the way to go.

I'll just go ahead and get the petmeds.com reference out of the way now.