RFC Decent way of handling unpredictably high demand product for "real singular people"

smartr thought this was worth mentioning said Wed, Jan 14th 2015 at 12:37pm ET

By "real singular people", I mean VMP's. By unpredictably high demand, I mean products where about 25% of the total inventory was sold at a rate in which all the remaining product would be purchased during a short interval, or about first hour of a sale that should be lasting 24 hours. For half of the remaining time, all "real singular people" may submit a ticket to commit on purchasing said unpredictably high demand product if it is available. At the end of said time frame, all committed "real singular people" are sorted randomly, with the products being sold to everyone there is available inventory for, with the remaining participants not getting a product. If for some strange reason there is more inventory, sales may resume as though it is no longer an unpredictably high demand product.

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carl669 said Wed, Jan 14th 2015 at 12:45pm ET:

KFC = Kentucky Fried Chicken
RFC = ??? Fried Chicken

i like fried chicken

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- @carl669 Re-Fried Chicken, extra crispy
  
  medz said Wed, Jan 14th 2015 at 3:56pm ET
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- @carl669 Request For Comments.
  
  michabailey said Wed, Jan 14th 2015 at 4:03pm ET
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smartr said Wed, Jan 14th 2015 at 3:21pm ET:

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- @smartr for the longest time i thought i was just hearing that line wrong and i tried so hard to listen real good and figure out what he was really saying.
  
  katylava said Wed, Jan 14th 2015 at 4:04pm ET
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phatmass said Wed, Jan 14th 2015 at 4:47pm ET:

I have an idea. How about the last 10% of inventory be VMP exclusive.

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- @phatmass I suppose my thought is not to exclude non-VMP's, but non-"real singular people". That is to say, there should be a strong mechanism to discourage a person acting as 10 people.
  
  smartr said Wed, Jan 14th 2015 at 4:50pm ET
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- @smartr What do you have against people with Dissociative identity disorder?
  
  kuoh said Wed, Jan 14th 2015 at 4:53pm ET
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The_Baron said Wed, Jan 14th 2015 at 6:33pm ET:

Pay attention

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editorkid said Fri, Jan 16th 2015 at 9:43pm ET:

This sounds harder than setting up a site and putting something out for sale and hoping it sells out.

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Michaelforman said Fri, Jan 16th 2015 at 10:31pm ET:

Irk video passively mocking your idea in 3, 2, 1 ...

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