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[Donna Marie Vincent]

Yes, but you say that about almost every 3rd party extension! :-)  And then don't give us any of the juicy details about who's doing what in the dev community.

What's with all the high ratings and great reviews for VM on the extensions directory?  I can't be the only one having problems with it.




----- Original Message ----
From: Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell at yahoo.com>
To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 7:37:20 PM
Subject: Re: [joomla] Virtuemart -- anyone else having SERIOUS problems with it?!

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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