I probably know less on this subject in many of you people that are chiming in with their viewpoints and examples
But I personally consider myself to be if nothing else a curious person. And not really focusing any real attention or concern on various sites, not giving accurate inventory status, seemingly in an effort to inspire people to feel the urgency of getting one or going home and Crying yourself to sleep.
Over the last few years, I guess I don’t have to tell most of you guys I purchase yo-yos on a regular basis. The majority of yo-yos I get I buy from YoYoExpert if they have them?
If it’s something, I really wanna add to my collection and Andre doesn’t have it and he tells me more than likely a particular yo-yo or two he won’t be adding to his site, I will order from another source.
I won’t specifically identify the sources of my purchases, mainly because you’re not supposed to talk about other sites to sell yo-yos. But I’m hoping at least a few of you that are also curious you have done the same thing as what I’m gonna tell you I did it ended up shaking your head And saying boy…… Is that some funny business or what?
So here is what I observed. And I observed this several times. But mentioning every instance would get kind of redundant because the pattern was the same.
So here’s one example… I go to a site of a maker that sells the yo-yo‘s directly. The yo-yo I was interested in, I clicked on the color way I wanted to get. The page said one left. The page was set up so that you could Add the same Yo-yo to the cart. It said quantity with a click up arrow if you wanted to get another one.
So being a curious, kind of guy, I clicked on the option to put two in my cart. It seemed to take more than a few seconds to process my request. And when the page refreshed a little box came up and it said ‘You have exceeded the available quantity’. So I went back to quantity ‘1’ and completed the purchase.
About an hour later, I went back to the site page and clicked on the same colorway. The page said ‘1 available’. So…. Again , tried to add 2 to the cart. And again,the window popped up stating that my request exceeded quantity in stock.
So, I gave a heads up to a yo-yo throwing friend and told him what’s up with that?
He told me he loved that color and didn’t have ‘that yo-yo model yet’. About an hour later, he told me he went to the site and purchased the same exact model/colorway.
The very next day, nosey Mo returned to the site and clicked on THE SAME MODEL/COLORWAY.
It said Quantity ‘1 available’.< and yet again I did the increase purchase quantity to 2.
And once again the page said request exceeds quantity available.
Being somewhat slow between the ears now and then, all of a sudden, I had ‘a thought’
I thought, ‘Wow, what a seriously sneaky way to generate feelings of urgency to buy or suck eggs’.
Pretty slick……
