Paul Hexem Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 So, recently I started searching for items and filtering prims.One problem I found was that a lot of people put 0 prims on objects that are clearly dozens, if not hundreds of prims.Shouldn't there be a way to flag that as false advertising? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrius Gothly Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Dakota Linden should probably answer this officially but .. isn't there a way to Flag for "Item Not as Advertised"? Do the listings have the "See Description" option checked to indicate the true Prim Counts are detailed there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hexem Posted June 14, 2011 Author Share Posted June 14, 2011 There is a "Not as advertised" option, but the sub menus don't mention prims. And at least two of the items I saw like this mentioned no prim counts at all, but you could tell at a glance that there were at least a dozen in the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwise Yoshikawa Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 The problem here is marketplace have that box with 0 by default. They should keep it blank, cause in xstreet was that way and merchants would not notice the change to go to edit. I just notice this myself ^^' Guess I should spend some time editing all my listings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Dakota Linden Posted June 14, 2011 Moderators Share Posted June 14, 2011 Gadget Portal wrote: So, recently I started searching for items and filtering prims. One problem I found was that a lot of people put 0 prims on objects that are clearly dozens, if not hundreds of prims. Shouldn't there be a way to flag that as false advertising? Greetings! The default when creating a product listing is blank. Meaning that if the seller doesn't enter the prim count, then nothing is reported and the system defaults it to a zero prim count. The optimum behavior would be that when a seller doesn't manually enter the prim count that the listing itself shows "Not Supplied" instead of zero. I have created an internal Jira Ticket for the Dev Team regarding this issue and it will be added to the list of things that need to be addressed. Regards,Dakota Linden-- Linden LabSL Marketplace Customer Supporthttps://marketplace.secondlife.com/http://www.secondlife.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwise Yoshikawa Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Then the blank from xstreet was migrated to marketplace with 0, cause I had lot of items with 0 and I didn't write that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Dakota Linden Posted June 14, 2011 Moderators Share Posted June 14, 2011 Catwise Yoshikawa wrote: Then the blank from xstreet was migrated to marketplace with 0, cause I had lot of items with 0 and I didn't write that LOL I just meant that when you create the listing there is nothing in the field for prim count unless you enter it. Regards,Dakota Linden-- Linden LabSL Marketplace Customer Supporthttps://marketplace.secondlife.com/http://www.secondlife.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrius Gothly Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 It's a "computer thing" Catwise. When the computer formats up the listing page for saving, it sees the blank prim count as a zero and stores that in the database. That field is defined as "Numeric", so it has to store some sort of number there .. thus the zero. If it was a "Text" field (like it was in XStreet) then it would save a blank entry as ... blank. However .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arwen Serpente Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 My old products were migrated over and the prim counts became "0" because in Xstreet I had used the word "various" (text as you indicated Darrius, not a number) in that field (I sell clothing and each piece has a different number of prims - total prim count is rather meaningless since each person wears a different combo of prim pieces). Since the new Marketplace was introduced, I leave that field blank and my listings don't show anything at all for prim count, not even the words "prim count" with a zero or a blank next to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrius Gothly Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 So apparently it's the Migrated listings that show "0" (zero) whereas new listings get away with a blank. I'm guessing they imported as numeric then sometime later changed the field to text. That means listings you see that should be "various" or some other non-numeric value but are instead showing "0" haven't been attended to fully since the migration. Hmmm .. sounds like good candidates to get swept into the "Stale Item Delisting" being discussed on another thread here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arwen Serpente Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Darrius? please don't do that *laughs* (referring to the quote " sounds like good candidates to get swept into the "Stale Item Delisting" being discussed on another thread here.") Those older listings are still many of my best sellers! They aren't "stale" at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwise Yoshikawa Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 that's it, Arwen ^^. I was editing all my listing to change prim count and notice some items used to have "read description" or something like that. Well, now all my listings are ok, cause I spend some time editing, but I didn't notice 'till now ^^' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrius Gothly Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Arwen Serpente wrote: Darrius? please don't do that *laughs* (referring to the quote " sounds like good candidates to get swept into the "Stale Item Delisting" being discussed on another thread here.") Those older listings are still many of my best sellers! They aren't "stale" at all! Awww .. you take away all my fun!! LOL Actually I'd much rather it be listings that haven't been sold or edited in quite some time, so if they are actually selling (and you're not getting AR'd every time for misrepresenting the prim counts LOL) then there'd be no reason to sweep them out. (Other than my innate evil tendencies ... Mwaaahahahahaaaa!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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