Custom / One of a kind Products help

Hey all. I need some help setting up some products on my site. I have several one of a kind, custom manufactured products. There is only one or two of each item. I want to be able to have customers see and purchase only the amount available. When the item is sold out, I do not want it to be back ordered. There are only a few of these products on my site. Everything else needs to be able to be back ordered. Basically, what I'm looking for is to change the product status when out of stock only for certain products or categories..... any suggestions?

i have the same issue and solved it thist way...

For products that run out and wont be back in stock i used the actuall amount in stock and for products that will be in stock again i just used 100 or even 1000 in stock... and do not show the amount in stock to the customers...

so. the "one-of-a-kind" products are sold out when they reach zero and the other products wont show backorders... they are always "in stock"

that's a great way of doing it. Unfortunately, I do need to be able to accurately report the amount of stock I have. For example, if I only have 10 of a certain Item in stock, and a customer orders 15, I need to be able to tell them that the last 5 will be back-ordered. I really appreciate your input.

If i could start a whole category with this type of product, that would work as well. Any Ideas? Please?:cry:

I have this problem also, I posted in the commercial help wanted section for someone to customize it for me, but no grabbers!

Me 3 I need to know the answer and I didn't even know my items were on backorder.