And lo On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:10:34 -0000, Eero Ahonen  
<aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> did spake thusly:

> Chambers wrote:
>>
>> But they CAN print "Bought 20, sold 20."  When they see something like
>> that, they usually try to buy more.
>
> Possibly depending on the time the last ones were sold. If the breads
> come in bunch of 5 or 10, would it be reasonable to buy 25 or 30 to sell
> 21 of them. Would that one happy customer profit those 4 or 9 breads out.
>
> And even after all the thinking estimating the future is not easy. One
> could see that normal day sells 17 breads and order 20, but some days
> mr. Visible comes and buys 6 of them, making total to 23.

The paradox is when you ask for something and they tell you there's no  
demand for it.

The annoyance is when you ask for something they've obviously sold out of  
and are told that they've been asked that several times already.

The super annoyance is having the previous annoyance repeated week after  
week.

-- 
Phil Cook

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