how to manage stock?

[fidbek]

hi all

joomla 2.5.8 and VM 2.0.18a
i am about to launch my shop today and i have a question regarding stock managing and seo:
i set the "Action when a Product is Out of Stock" to "Displays 'Notify Me' instead of 'Add To Cart' button".
but what will happen if a product is no longer produced and i will never sell it again?
if I'll delete it - the link to the product will be "broken"
if I'll leave it as is - in a year or so I'll have a lot of products with "out of stock" (i am selling small qty of each product)

so? to delete it? to leave it for good? other suggestions?

thanks!

[AH]

It depends if there is another prooduct that is still active that the customer may wish to pruchase in place of the non stocked item

I would do a 301 re-direct from the old URL to the new product URL if the items are very similar and then unpublish the item you will no longer stock