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

Mike Heins interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Mon Nov 19 21:31:01 2001


Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke@linuxia.de):
> Jason Ballou <jasonballou1@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> You can check the order amount on the basket and checkout
> page and disallow any orders above a certain limit.

Actually, this is built into 4.8.x:

	Limit  cart_quantity_per_line  50

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