How is Amazon doing it ?

I'm not sure. As far as I'm aware Amazon don't offer reserve and collect as they don't have retail premises.

My experience of the reserve and collect process is based off of how major UK retailers such as Argos and PC World are doing it. The item is removed from stock until the end of the next business day without requiring payment.


Jamie, thanks for the information.

I think its hit and miss tbh I would say agree with all comments here I would say its 50/50 as a DOS and functional bug.

So we put it as a DOS and explain to the client why it happend and what we could do.

An intresting question would be if you have a phone that has a lock feature on it and your friend decides to play a game. He enters your pin wrong 3 times this then lock the phone for 1 min. He then does it again 3 more times and lock the phone for 10 min. He then keeps on doing this until the phone is locked for 60min.

Would you say that was a DOS ? as mentioned above you not really using resources up like ram, HDD or the processor. you are just locking him out of his phone and stoping him from using the phone for 1 hour.

So what the difference between locking someone phone and denying someone access to make a purchase? As I think there is no difference or a really small amount of difference that does not matter.

Good points but would the developer not argue that the reserve and collect was implemented and is a function of the site.And in both cases the phone case and the collet and reserve case the features are being abused?

I am just trying to look at this from different points of view as I have said I think its very 50/50 on being a DOS/Logic-function flaw.

I think everyone will have a different view on what they would class it as.

sternone I don’t think we confusing them I just trying point out that it sometimes hard to decide between the two. Even if you look this post some people said it’s a type of DOS some said no way so there is a lot of confusing around it.

Wikipedia says "In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users"

So by purchasing the entire shop when you have no intention to pay for them are you not in a way making resources unavailable to its intended users?

If you stop your friends from having access to his phone by entering the pin so many times wrong are you not denying him access to his machine?
I just trying say that it sometimes hard to identify if an issue is a DOS, Logical or any other type of flaw.

I was only trying get people opinion was not stating facts or saying you’re wrong and I am right I just trying to look at it from different people’s points of view.

Thanks for the links