Forum: MarketPlace Customers


Subject: I guess I don't understand how sales work

Klebnor opened this issue on Feb 05, 2010 · 28 posts


Klebnor posted Fri, 05 February 2010 at 9:05 AM

Quote - i always thought that sales ended at midnight of that date set ... like for example 5th february midnight (going into the 6th feb - if this makes sense)

Yes ... you suffered under the same delusion as I.  As demonstrated by the recent FRAD sale and the thread linked by Acadia above, this is a common misconception.  Vendors can set the sale to end this way, and I suspect most do, which is why users tend to assume all sales run to the end of the stated day.  They can also end it at any time during the final day - which is where the problems arise.

I think Rendo should standardize this for the sake of simplicity and to eliminate confusion.

Klebnor

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