So, I've seen the order numbers rising and rising over the past several years (my first purchase was Order #117495 on Mar 3, 2004), and I have a couple of questions:
What was the first Order Number?
When was the first order made?
Do the numbers go up consecutively?
Is there a "P1M Bug"?
Is there a "Congratulations! You're the 999,999th Customer! This is not a joke! Please Click Here!" extravaganza planned?
Just curious.
Chief Technical Officer
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So, I've seen the order numbers rising and rising over the past several years (my first purchase was Order #117495 on Mar 3, 2004), and I have a couple of questions:
What was the first Order Number?
When was the first order made?
Do the numbers go up consecutively?
Is there a "P1M Bug"?
Is there a "Congratulations! You're the 999,999th Customer! This is not a joke! Please Click Here!" extravaganza planned?Just curious.
The first customer order number was "19" (1-18 were used up in testing). On June 6, 2003, our first sale was a subscription to Undefeated Magazine. At the time, Dragon and Dungeon subs were handled by a third party service, and that was actually the only thing you could buy.
However, "actual" order numbers aren't consecutive, because shopping carts are really just incomplete orders, so as soon as somebody puts something in their cart, they use an order number even if they never submit it. We've never looked to see how many actual orders we've processed.
Is there a "Congratulations! You're the 999,999th Customer! This is not a joke! Please Click Here!" extravaganza planned?
Well, I for one refuse to be bribed!
However, "actual" order numbers aren't consecutive, because shopping carts are really just incomplete orders, so as soon as somebody puts something in their cart, they use an order number even if they never submit it. We've never looked to see how many actual orders we've processed.
Is this every time the cart is changed?
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Chief Technical Officer
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However, "actual" order numbers aren't consecutive, because shopping carts are really just incomplete orders, so as soon as somebody puts something in their cart, they use an order number even if they never submit it. We've never looked to see how many actual orders we've processed.Is this every time the cart is changed?
No, although we used to create new carts for a lot of stupid reasons. (And there are other ways that order numbers get used up, such as orders getting merged or split.)
Oh. That's interesting. I was wondering how the numbers were made when in one month there seemed to be over 50,000 orders when on other months it was closer to 10,000.
Still, I think it'd be cool to have that 999,999 or 1,000,000 in my Order History.
Hmm. It just occured to me that NOBODY might get that 999,999 or 1,000,000. If they create an order and just delete it, it'd be gone!