Permanent Cart - How does this work?

[DrByte]

I am glad to hear that items remain in stock until actually purchased. However, I'd like to know if there is a way to actually disable the permanent cart function. All my items are one of a kind as I am selling off a collection. I don't want customers to think they can save the item in their cart for weeks and come back disgruntled that someone else has bought it.

Do you know of a way to disable it?

You can do that in v2.0.0:

Handling Stored Shopping Cart on Login
When a customer logs in and has a previously stored shopping cart, do you want to Restore the cart contents, or Erase it?

restore = retrieve previous abandoned shopping cart
erase = delete any prior shopping history