[mv] Pricing based on customer status (with a few twists)

[junglepost <junglejj@swbell.net>]

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Hello List,

I am a medium skill level Minivend developer.  I have done several
sites, and they all have this or that specific challenge.  One of my
latest ones is racking my poor tired brain.  If someone out there
could help me I will buy you a beer.  Or mail you one, or something...
;)

My client wants to make his database available to both the public, and
to dealers.  Dealers would usually pay 1/2 retail *but not always*.
There is a discount structure on some items that I will use common
adjust for (if I can under the circumstances).  The discounts would
apply to both retail and dealer pricing schemes. This combination of
needs is making my set up process a little more difficult than usual.

I have looked at several options on how to implement this.

1.  Locale seems to be one option, but it is not obvious to me at the time
how to use it.

2. I could set a variable via a password page and try to do some sort
of [if variable...][perl config]
{config}{PriceField}='dealerprice';[/perl] [/if] type of thing
(dangerous??)

3.  I could set up some sort of convoluted [discount] tags (this would
end up being messy and complex)

Have any of you experience in this area?  I searched the maillist
database and found a couple similar things, but nothing really
illuminating.

Thanks for your help!
James Johnson
flam@bigfoot.com (even though majordomo don't like bigfoot ;)


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