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Old 11-17-2007, 07:44 AM
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Default Re: Order ID Random Incrementation...

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Originally Posted by drudden
In addition, with sequential order numbers your competitor can easily find out how much volume you are doing if they wanted to.

LOL that is exactly what I did. I figured out that my competitor does on average 280 orders per day based on "secret shopping" from them in 2 week increments over a 2 month period. Now that I seen this thread I have my doubts that their volume is that much. However it actually could be according to thier "About our company" stating the size of their facility and equipment that they have.


Is there a way to see what your actual order number would be had you not of used the random order number?

If I launch my site using the random number generator and after 6 months I have an order number of 1283. Is there a way to see that that is actually order number 398?

I'm more than likely going to install this mod before launch.
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