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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9470987" data-attributes="member: 59816">Yeah, I never understand that sort of thing. I will carry whatever my customers ask for, assuming that I can get them. I might not have it on the shelf, depending on if we prioritized something else, or more often, because the distributor is out of it, but I'm happy to bring anything I can in for a customer who asks for it.Yeah, that's pretty impossible to tell. It might be that they had 5 and sold 2 and now have 3, or it might be that they put out 10, you saw 5, and then they ran out and put out another 10, and you came in and saw 3, and who knows how many 10's in-between. Hard to say without asking them.Not much to tell by that either, other than that they got more than they sold so far. They could have gotten 200 and are down to 50, where I got 70 and am out. I've mentioned before the strange phenomenon that had I ordered less, I'd still have them, because I would have started running out earlier, and I would have placed a reorder (assuming I placed a large enough reorder) while my distributor still had them. Instead, they ran out at exactly the same time I did. They had A LOT and I wasn't worried about them running out, until it was TOO LATE. And that was because many stores underordered it, and needed reorder numbers (according to my distributor) that were larger than their initial orders. This is both them underestimating the demand, but it's also the demand being there. It would be unusual for them to underestimate a demand that is only small, though it's possible. It's much more likely that it's selling very well.</blockquote>

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