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Originally Posted by nomesque
Optional filter: Filter by Availability (<country>)
Not really THAT hard, dammit.
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Not necessarily hard, but implementing any kind of restriction carries the risk of restricting more than you want. For example:
They would need to be
positively certain of who you are. Only showing books at all if you are logged in would be a way of ensuring that. Wouldn't that be annoying you were at a friend's and wanted to look for a book?
Secondly, they would have to define precisely what "country" means and how to find it out. "Country" could be the address of the bank account connected with the credit card. It could be based on the IP address of the computer you use during the checkout process - or the computer you use when you put the book in the cart - or the computer you use when you create a user account at FW (it's not necessarily the same). Or country could be based one the language your browser is set to... Or something else entirely.
In all these cases you risk locking out and annoy customers of you get it wrong - which there's risk of. Personally I dont like seeing books I can't buy - at least not if it's most of those I would like to buy - but it would also be bad for FW if books I could buy that I couldn't see.