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[Anthony Ferrara]

Have I not been saying how bad VM is for the past year? :-P


--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Donna Marie Vincent <donnamarievincent at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Donna Marie Vincent <donnamarievincent at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [joomla] Virtuemart -- anyone else having SERIOUS problems with it?!
> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 5:27 PM
> Thanks for the info, Jeff.  
> 
> It's unacceptable to have this type of problem in an
> ecommerce application -- you could lose your business over
> it!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeff Siegel <jeff987654 at yahoo.com>
> To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 5:08:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [joomla] Virtuemart -- anyone else having
> SERIOUS problems with it?!
> 
> Unfortunately Virtuemart DOES have serious issues. For one
> project in particular we ended up spending a ton of hours to
> fix it.
> We've been working with Magento. It's a great
> product IF (noticed that big IF!) you will basically use the
> features as-is and just need to reskin it. 
> If you need to do some reengineering...be prepared for a
> steep learning curve and lots of complexity.
> 
> Jeff Siegel
> Net at Work
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle at gmail.com>
> To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 4:43:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [joomla] Virtuemart -- anyone else having
> SERIOUS problems with it?!
> 
> I'd consider taking this route:
> 
> http://www.magentocommerce.com/
> 
> -- Mitch, wondering what everyone else thinks
> 
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Donna Marie Vincent
> <donnamarievincent at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The "new" Virtuemart (1.1.x) seems to have
> some very SERIOUS problems -- such as I go to checkout, type
> in my bill-to/ship-to info, click "Continue" and
> the next page in the checkout process shows me someone
> else's account info!
> >
> > That's pretty serious.  One person checks out and
> someone else gets the bill/receipt.
> >
> > I'm looking at IXXO Cart which is expensive but I
> would expect that it works.
> >
> > Anyone have any experience or heard anything about
> IXXO Cart or the problems with Virtuemart?
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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