Thanks, Ron.  I'll double-check the bargains page, and appreciate the sale
in any case.
bmc  :)
"Faith will move mountains, but you'd better bring a shovel...."

> From: The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
> Reply-To: The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:46:24 -0500
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: **TRIPLE** Listmember Discount - TOMORROW ONLY
>
>> I may be seeing things wrong, but I find lots of the items on the normal
>> pages are also on the bargains pages.  Are you saying that the ones on the
>> normal pages aren't on the bargains pages as well?  I'm just wanting to be
>> clear about what's on sale and what's not
>
>
> Oh, now I understand the confusion.  And yes, it can be confusing. The
> Bargain Page items DO also show up on the regular pages (i.e. brakes,
> clutch, etc.). This is because they are keyed into the website with two
> codes - one that identifies the item as a sale item (hence the listing on
> the bargains page) and one that identifies it as, say, a brake drum (hence
> the listing on the brakes page).
>
> You were assuming that if you found the item on a regular page, you could
> tell if it was a sale item because it would list a price in the "retail"
> price column.  A very logical assumption.  But not the case.  Frankly we
> haven't been making good use of that column. It was supposed to list the
> manufacturer's retail price on every item on the site. But too many items
> come in without the retail price listed on the invoice, and we are just too
> busy to manually look each of them up, so that column ends up empty a lot of
> the time. In fact, I plan to remove the column completely, as I can't see
> ever having enough time to keep it up.
>
> As it stands, there is no definitive way to identify sale items when viewing
> them on a regular page. Some of them are identified as sale items in the
> description (i.e. "40% off" or something like that) but not all are.  Which,
> now that you bring it up, is something I definately want to fix.  (But not
> by tomorrow. :-)
>
> The best bet, once you pick what you want, is to go to the bargains page
> before you check out, and just scan it to see if anything you've picked is
> listed on that page.  If it is, then that item will only qualify for 5% off
> instead of 15%. If you don't want it you can always remove it from your
> shopping cart then. But then again, those items are often marked down 20-40%
> already, so even with only a 5% additional discount you are still ahead of
> the game.
>
> - Ron Salmon
> The Bus Depot, Inc.
> (215) 234-VWVW
> www.busdepot.com
>