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Marc Jacobs

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This is incorrect right?....

"we are out on eggs" shouldn't it be "we are out of eggs"??

I am trying to tell my client who is knitpicking at all the employee's emails today that she is wrong.  The actual email is says "...we are temporarily out of stock of part #...." she is asking for us to replace "of" with "on".

Who is correct and why?  I dont want to seem rude to her when I'm correcting her.

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I think you are correct.

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I think you're right too. Actually, you could probably say it either way, but saying you're out of eggs is much more common.

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I have never heard of "out on" anything. I'd use of.

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I think I get why she wants to change it. She doesn't like that we're using the word "of" so frequently, "out OF stock OF", so I think I'm just going to reword the email so they do not repeat so soon after each other.

Thanks!

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halleybird


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atlgirl wrote:

I have never heard of "out on" anything. I'd use of.


ditto. I guess your client is using "on" as a substitute for "regarding," but it is terrible sentence structure either way. I guess you could say, "Regarding product x, we are out," but as I said, it's awkward. 



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halleybird wrote:

 

atlgirl wrote:

I have never heard of "out on" anything. I'd use of.


ditto. I guess your client is using "on" as a substitute for "regarding," but it is terrible sentence structure either way. I guess you could say, "Regarding product x, we are out," but as I said, it's awkward.

 



 I agree. It's just awkward. Perhaps "Part X is temporarily out of stock..." would be better.



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I agree with the others; you are correct.

Lots of options to make it less awkward, though:

Part x is temporarily out of stock.
We are temporarily out of Part x.
We currently do not have any stock of Part x.


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It is "of" - you run out OF something, you don't run out ON something (unless it is your spouse I suppose?)!! smile

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