Quote from: c13hqPX7dQuote* Quantity: The same function as always, to list the amount available. [...]In my opinion, nobody BUT the vendor him/herself should know the quantities available. I know you can already see the quantity in the shopping cart, but I don't think that's good. It could be valuable information to LE about the size of a vendors operation; the information can also be used by other vendors for strategy marketing which, in my opinion, does not belong on SR.If you, as a vendor, have a different view on this (or if I am completely wrong), please tell me!Makes sense, it should just return a Yes or No depending on how much is "Reserved/Ordered". What I would add to this is restructuring the Product into what I would call "Stockpiles". That basically means any individual Product could have multiple separate Stockpiles either based on for example Type of Packaging or Storage in Various Regions. Each Stockpile could have Rules that are different from those set on the Product itself, for example an order of Product X could allow up to 10 Units from that Stockpile but if Ordered from a Stockpile in India the minimum amount is 100 but the price is also much lower.Quote from: c13hqPX7dQuoteTo explain the Group Concept I mentioned briefly as it would be a stand-alone concept: Vendors would have the ability to move any user into a group of their choosing, for example "Good Customer" or "Horrible Scamming Customer", each time those customers make a purchase the vendor would have a small overview of what groups the buyer has the most votes for and could based on that decide to accept or refuse the customer. This could also be set so let's say the customer has done 10 purchases and he's scammed three of them and has consequently been marked in the "Horrible Scamming Customer" category three times, the vendors could by requirement say a buyer can not have more than 20% of "Horrible Scamming Customer", the buyer would in this example then not be able to make a purchase. With the Group Concept one could limit customers to certain weight ranges depending on what region and group they're based in, for example one might not want a customer to order more than 25 grams in total in any single order as the package is not designed to hold more. One could also set the requirement to "Finalizing Early" instead of outright banning specific buyers in certain groups.It's a very good idea, but I think it's waaay too complex. The problem could be solved simply by allowing vendors to rate their customers as well. Every buyer should also have a page that shows FE-% and AF-% and the rating of the user (nothing more, especially not the amount of transactions and the value, as this could(!) easily be linked to a specific person if LE already has a clue).OR all information is visible, but then only vendors should be able to see a customers page and ONLY if an order is placed, basically like it is handled at the moment (except of course the missing customer rating feature).Stay safe!With a Graphical Interface where each Vendor would have the choice of categorizing each order based on specific attributes, it could be customized so a Vendor could for example only mark if a Buyer is scamming or not and absolutely nothing else as some will have a lot of orders to process. It seems now with the advent of the changes seen from taking the site down for discussion update: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=204014 something very similar to this happened though.----------I've done some research with Oneiros Distribution which culminated in the following two threads:Discount Methods - Explanation and Thoughts: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=203215Drug Market Discount Analysis - Top 10 Regions: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=205615They go into how the current Systems work and how many Listings are currently existing because there's no working alternatives at the moment. I will most likely consider this chapter closed as of now, hopefully Silk Road or some other site will at some point implement changes similar to what has been suggested in this thread. I might set up a proof of Concept a year or two down the line if I'm still here and have enough money to do it at that point. :P