[SunRescue] Vendor List

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent Rankin [mailto:krankin at usit.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 10:31 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Vendor List
> 
> 
> > I only list vendors on sunhelp.org that are known to have 
> decent prices
> > and not rip people off, BTW.  I wont list just anybody.  
> This way I can
> 
> 	Don't believe a word of it.  He once offered to list me.  *grin*
> 
> 	However, I may just be blowing smoke up my own arse 
> when I say this,
> but a lot of vendors out there don't use web pages to manage 
> inventory. 
> Myself, I constantly go through equipment, and already 
> working 16 hours
> a day, have no time to maintain web pages as I go through things.

I'd have to say that maintaining an online inventory isn't/shouldn't be all
that hard.  Assuming that you can either write something that can query a
database, or can convince somebody to write scripts to query the database
for you (php3, perl, and my favorite, ColdFusion), then it's pretty trivial.
You can create some pages that list what you have in stock, probably with
some semi-negotiable prices, and have people either call or email to get
whatever they want built.  The database design could even be a flat file,
just using fields to mark things in and out or whatever.  If I every acquire
enough stuff to make this worthwhile, maybe I'll write something myself.
	Greg.