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Items left in the stockroom occasionally disappear after a time, but not all. Is this a bug or by design?

Using a stockroom as "extra storage" is touted as a solution by some and derided as an "exploit" or "cheat" by others.

I have found NO official statement from Devs on the intended/unintended use of stockrooms. Likewise, I could find no warnings (other than those posted from other players) regarding leaving items in the stockroom for an extended period of time.

Please - if there is some LIMIT, just tell us?

I've cited a couple of definitions below. Perhaps if they [the developers] did NOT INTEND for them to be used as storage, they should have given them a different name?

I have a couple of suggested names, but they would make the title tab much wider than it is now:

• "temporary place for items but do not store them here"


• "place for customer's purchases to become stuck"


• "location where you can inadvertenly lose your inventory"


• "anything BUT a stockroom"

stock·room (also stock room) n

A room in which a store of goods or materials is kept.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

stockroom

n : room for storing goods and supplies used in a business

WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

Right now, the stockroom is the only thing that justifies the existance of about 90% of the vendors that exist in the game. They need to do something that makes vendors viable before they nerf the stockroom. And all the localized advertising ideas that they seem to have cooked up will be complete failures. I mean, they can give people glow in the dark paint to cover their houses with and it wont do any good. Cause the people looking for the products on the vendor are in other regions, other cities, or on other planets.

In Tech Support forum, CSR-Chad responds to my question with:

Hello Ewach

Thank you for posting, items left in the stockroom for an extended period of time may disappear since stockrooms are not meant to be used for infinite storage of items.

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I do appreciate receiving the response.

But am I the only one that would like something more definitive than "may disappear" and "extended period of time"?

How long is "extended"? What determines if they disappear?

How can I, or any of you, manage our inventory within the vendors if we do not know what the limitations are?

That there are left and right limits I will have to accept - however, at least tell me what they are.