I’m really sick and tired of websites that list something
they no longer have to sell. It’s the equivalent of walking into a hospital
while bleeding to death and them telling you they used to have an emergency
room. Dick move. It works like this: You search Google for an item and get back
1,000,000 hits, hopeful that the first couple will have the best price. You
click on them, but each one says ‘Sold Out’ at the very bottom of the 18
paragraphs describing what you were already going to buy. I get that some
things are limited edition, but how about not listing them on an ecommerce site
once you’ve sold all of them? What’s really bad is the number of major sites
that actually still do this: Amazon, Staples, Walmart, Sears, pretty much all
of the top selling retailers. Google is just as guilty for enabling them. It’s
called technology and there is no excuse for it, since pretty much every
inventory control application designed in the past 10 years should be able to
remove something from the catalog once it’s out of stock. Rather than correct
this, they’re perfectly content with being the guy who still brags about someone
they slept with in high school, ten years later. Die.
"Sold Out"