Cagey
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There seems to be glitch in the pricing routine section of the Neck Builder. Or, maybe I'm doing something wrong?
Once you pick a neck and fretboard wood, it generates a price, puts it in the "Price" box and also in the "Subtotal" box to the right of the builder's main body. That makes sense.
But, if your fretboard wood has "Unique Choice" possibilities, you can start rowing through those to see if anything turns you on. Where the glitch shows up is as soon as you look at the first choice, it doesn't add the upcharge to the "Price" box, but it does add it to "Subtotal" box. In other words, simply looking at your choices adds an upcharge. Once it does that, the upcharge never goes away. Even if you go in and select "Optional" again, so as to indicate you don't want a "Unique Choice", the upcharge stays on the subtotal.
It seems as though the "Price" box and "Subtotal" box should both increment in tandem, just for starters. But, if you don't actually choose anything, the upcharge should go away.
So, my first suggestion is that it be fixed. Unless, there's nothing wrong and I'm just not understanding how that all works. But, if it is me, it's probably others as well, because it's certainly not clear that there's any other way to do all that.
My second suggestion, which I think would be much better, would be to open a pop-up window that shows what unique choices are available, and let you enlarge choices by clicking on them. Once you find one that you can't live without, there should be a checkbox or a radio button next to it that allows you to select it, with the default being "no selection". Only then should the "Price" and "Subtotal" boxes be updated.
As it is now, you have to row though all the choices one-by-one and try to remember what you looked at last or which one you already saw that you might like better, etc. It's cumbersome.
Once you pick a neck and fretboard wood, it generates a price, puts it in the "Price" box and also in the "Subtotal" box to the right of the builder's main body. That makes sense.
But, if your fretboard wood has "Unique Choice" possibilities, you can start rowing through those to see if anything turns you on. Where the glitch shows up is as soon as you look at the first choice, it doesn't add the upcharge to the "Price" box, but it does add it to "Subtotal" box. In other words, simply looking at your choices adds an upcharge. Once it does that, the upcharge never goes away. Even if you go in and select "Optional" again, so as to indicate you don't want a "Unique Choice", the upcharge stays on the subtotal.
It seems as though the "Price" box and "Subtotal" box should both increment in tandem, just for starters. But, if you don't actually choose anything, the upcharge should go away.
So, my first suggestion is that it be fixed. Unless, there's nothing wrong and I'm just not understanding how that all works. But, if it is me, it's probably others as well, because it's certainly not clear that there's any other way to do all that.
My second suggestion, which I think would be much better, would be to open a pop-up window that shows what unique choices are available, and let you enlarge choices by clicking on them. Once you find one that you can't live without, there should be a checkbox or a radio button next to it that allows you to select it, with the default being "no selection". Only then should the "Price" and "Subtotal" boxes be updated.
As it is now, you have to row though all the choices one-by-one and try to remember what you looked at last or which one you already saw that you might like better, etc. It's cumbersome.
