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Posted by Jeff Rife on 04/16/06 15:15
Evelyn C. Leeper (eleeper@optonline.net) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> > The only thing they admitted is to having finite inventory.
> >
> "These effects will not occur unless we are faced with limited inventory
> at your local distribution center or when the number of shipments to be
> processed by that distribution center on that day is exceeded. In
> determining priority for shipping and inventory allocation, we may
> utilize many different factors such as the number and type of DVDs you
> rent through our service, the subscription plan you select, and other
> uses of our service by you. For example, if all other factors are the
> same, we give priority to those members who receive the fewest DVDs
> through our service."
>
> In other words, they also have a limited number of shipments from each
> warehouse.
I think you are reading in to that too much. The number of shipments
isn't fixed at some abitrary number for each warehouse.
They don't suddenly hit 100 shipments (for example) from a warehouse and
say "that's all, guys...close down for today". What they were trying to
express is that they have a finite number of employees and limited working
hours, and processing a shipment takes a non-zero amount of time. At
some point, people go home for the day and there is nobody left to ship
from that center.
So, in order to deal with finite resources, they sort the requests by a
method where the final sort item is the number DVDs received this month.
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