How can bags be mistaken for cases when negotiating a deal? The price would be different by an order of magnitude.
Why would orders trickle in like this if the product isn't getting shipped from the distributor and sold?
Maybe I'm overly cynical and wary of things on the internet but somethings not adding up here.
These kinds of confusions happen regularly, lol. Back a decade ago when I was working in pubs, colleague ordered what he thought would be one pack of paper towels - in the order form, he chose the wrong column to place the "1" in. Next day a shipping company showed up with a pallet of paper towels. Boss wasn't amused too much, but not because of the money, rather because we lacked the space to store a fucking pallet of paper towels. We ended up selling half of them to patrons at cost and managed to squeeze the rest wherever we could - I would not be surprised if someone today would still find a random roll somewhere and wonder where it came from.
In another job at a supermarket, this happened somewhat weekly. Didn't really matter unless it were really slow-moving or perishable goods, but it rarely happened in the latter case and in the former case stuff could also simply be sent back to the central warehouse.
"Ok, we'll order 6000 at that price"
I'd think the big company would almost demand that or else the coffee roaster could ship 6000 zip lock baggies with 10 coffee beans in each. I know that's an absurd example but a PO and contract protects everyone against that and that's why any reasonable company doesn't proceed without defined terms.
6,000 units @ $30 per unit
Or
36,000 units @ $5 per unit
You can't have:
6,000 units @ $5 per unit with the expectation that you're going to get 6,000 cases
„Can you move 6000 units?”
“Yes we can move 6000 units at 10$ per pound”
“Sounds great, get them going!”
When I saw it yesterday they had more than 1,000 cases of the dark roast left (and none of the light or medium). So 1,000 cases in a day, a big chunk of the 34,000 bags. I wonder how long it will take them to ship, what with their not having the facilities for it.
The sob story for why the shipping is delayed will be in an upcoming blog post.
Stay tuned...