Chapter 16. Information Bays (i-bays)
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On the day of delivery, Samson’s shipping staff accesses the i-bay over the Internet, prints out TPV’s order from the samfarms
i-bay, and fills it.
16.8. An i-bay Used as Your Customer Download Site
When customers hire The Pagan Vegan to plan events, they need to review a great deal of information - menu options, catalogues
from various vendors for event stationary, table-setting rentals, etc. Often customers want several days to review it all. TPV has only
a limited number of catalogues for loan, so it decided to provide customers with access to this information online. To accomplish
this, TPV created a download i-bay, called "menus", where customers can download the catalogue files themselves and view the
contents on their desktop machines.
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