How Do I Include More than One Item?

[DejahStarr]

I am starting a store on MarketPlace and wish to sell a shape.  I want to include two versions of the shape and a style card.

However, I can only seem to add one shape.  How do I include the other shape and the style card?  I need specific directions written for an idiot.  Sorry.

[Rolig Loon]

Your Merchant Outbox uploads folders.  When you drag an item to the Outbox, you will notice that a folder is created automatically.  Once it is there, you may drag other items (that is, other objects, notecards, LMs, etc.) into that folder or you may drag them into the Outbox separately, inwhich case they end up in their own separate folders.  When you click the SEND button, each folder goes to your Unlisted items file in Marketplace as a new listable entity.  So..... If you want to sell two shapes and a style notecard as a package, upload them in the same folder in the Merchant Outbox.

Incidentally, once you have done that, you can't change just one item in the Marketplace listing.  You have to upload the whole folder again.  I find myself doing that whenever I create an "improved" version of some item.  I need to upload a folder with that item, plus all the other stuff that goes with it,

[DejahStarr]

Thanks. I have a degree in computer science and am pretty computer savvy and fairly savvy in SL with 1.5 years here in SL and on all the time and working with stuff. That I couldn't figure this out on my own does not speak well to the design and information available. I hope LL takes note. The system and this part of it in particular should be more user friendly.  Either that or it is my fault for being stupid and not reading as carefully.

Thanks for the help Rollig.

[Rolig Loon]

I agree. LL has been slow to warm to good marketing design. In their defense, in a mild sort of way, Marketplace has had a number of technical problems that are at least as important to fix as the design of their UI.