Ideal World Stock Problem SOLUTIONS!

[Adam82]

Ideal world have seem to have very limited buying power. Stock on almost every products seems to go within half hour,. My suggestion is to close the phone lines and lock the website like bidtv did, it's annoying but it would stop ebayers from buying from genuine customers not resellers. That's who is buying the products ebayers and amazon folk. The person(s) who buys products from suppliers are not very good they don't seem to realise that 100,000s of potential customers are watching ideal world. IW need to get proper buyers not clowns that just came from university. Anyone else got ideas on how to sort out the limited stock problems ?

 

[Bennyxp]

Ideal world have seem to have very limited buying power. Stock on almost every products seems to go within half hour,. My suggestion is to close the phone lines and lock the website like bidtv did, it's annoying but it would stop ebayers from buying from genuine customers not resellers. That's who is buying the products ebayers and amazon folk. The person(s) who buys products from suppliers are not very good they don't seem to realise that 100,000s of potential customers are watching ideal world. IW need to get proper buyers not clowns that just came from university. Anyone else got ideas on how to sort out the limited stock problems ?

Just make the presenters use a different method than using time pressure tactics. - if they really did sell out of everything half way through, they are only making 50% of their profit potential and the buyers should be sacked. I can't see any proper wholesaler buying from IW. .

 

[shopperholic]

The thing is in all seriousness, Ideal World is popular and does have many, many viewers who buy regularly. You may have the odd person from eBay buying and selling it on, but believe it or not they do buy big stocks of things and they sell out because customers buy it. There's a popular misconception that IW is the lower of the two shopping channels, but they're not. The service is excellent, the products are good, plenty of flexi-pays and reasonably priced what's not to like..........oh wait, the presenters.

 

[Wirral70]

10% sold, 40%, 70%, it's limited stock, quick quick quick, when it's gone it's gone, it's sold out.

Then it's back 'in stock' the next day (like Shadazzle last week).

They're only talking about the 'stock' allocated' to a particular sale/offer. And 'in stock' is a loose term anyway, they just get it shipped in to their Warehouse/Hub as and when required. They don't hold much 'stock' as such they mostly just deal with customer payments and fulfillment and that's why there's regularly a couple of days delay in an item arriving with Hermes to track. In fact they don't even always have any direct involvement with fulfillment (much like Amazon don't always too).

It's all perfectly acceptable (and indeed sound) business practice, QVC operate on a very similar basis. Lying about a particular price never being repeated isn't acceptable practice though :mysmilie_59:

 

[Price Plunge]

They're only talking about the 'stock' allocated' to a particular sale/offer. And 'in stock' is a loose term anyway, they just get it shipped in to their Warehouse/Hub as and when. They don't hold much 'stock' as such they mostly just deal with customer payments and fulfillment and that's why there's regularly a couple of days delay in an item arriving with Hermes to track. In fact they don't even always have any direct involvement with fulfillment.

It's all perfectly acceptable (and indeed sound) business practice, QVC operate on a very similar basis. Lying about a particular price never being repeated isn't acceptable practice though :mysmilie_59:

One thing QVC does sometimes do when a product sells out and there's no prospect of quick stock replenishment is switch to advanced orders; I'm presuming they have an active patent for this concept since IW could do exactly the same thing.

 

[shopperholic]

I've heard them say in the past, they allocate X amount for each show, if it sells out they'll take stock from another show then reorder if it's a popular item, also some slip back into stock if some peoples payments don't go through that's were the technically sold out comes from.

 

[Wirral70]

One thing QVC does sometimes do when a product sells out and there's no prospect of quick stock replenishment is switch to advanced orders; I'm presuming they have an active patent for this concept since IW could do exactly the same thing.

As far as I can see hardly anything actually ever really 'sells out' on Ideal World though. It's nearly always back 'in stock' quick smart.

It regularly happens on QVC but with all due respect to Ideal World QVC UK are massive compared to them (you only have to look at the size of the QVC forum on here) From what I see it tends to happen with far higher quality or more specialist products that perhaps the manufacturers simply aren't able to supply in the volumes that QVC can shill, or it could be that QVC don't have the capacity at a given time to process such volumes of merchandise at their aircraft hangar of a warehouse in Knowsley!

I can't stand QVC UK, or many of it's presenters or their prices but they're on another planet to Ideal World in scale, in fact in pretty much everything :mysmilie_59: