[ic] Competitors placing fake orders; need help...

Curt Hauge interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Mon Nov 19 19:01:01 2001


Quoting Jason Ballou:

> My exceedingly unscrupulous competitors are placing
> fake orders where they order several thousand of a few
> items at a time, depleting my inventory numbers for
> that item and preventing my customers from ordering it
> until I re-inventory the items.
>
> I am running version 4.8.1.  What is the easiest way
> that I can set a maximum quantity per item, keeping in
> mind that I know almost nothing about programming?

Perhaps you have some form of payment other than credit card which the
"seedy characters" are using to avoid inputting a valid card number.

I found this in my private archive and then resourced the mail archives at
RedHat. Maybe this will help.
http://interchange.redhat.com/archive/interchange-users/2000/msg09957.html

Good luck!

Curt Hauge