Why hasn't Microsoft fixed the buydown quantity problem? I notified my Microsoft Partner and put in a product sugestion over a year ago and it is still possible to over sell buydown items. I also just notified Microsoft a month ago that this problem still exist in the new version 2.0. It seems when setting up a buydown item one enters the buydown price and the buydown quantity and it works great till you near the limit of items avaiable at the buydown price. To expalin the problem I will give the following example: you have 5 case of beer left at a buydown price of $15 (normally a $30 priced item) and a customer comes in and buys 3 case on one sale. Now there are two buydown items left and another customer comes in and he also purchases 3 case and the system permits all 3 to be sold at the low price of $15. It seems that as long as there is one item left to be sold at the buydown price the system will permit any number of that item to be sold if it is in one sale. I did find this out the hard way when we lost close to $100 on one sale because of this bug. I am sure we lost much more on previous items that were on buydown before we noticed this problem.
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