Vending systems for new small merchant to use

[Space Zehetbauer]

Hi, I am considering selling a few fashion items at my gallery and was wondering what types of vending systems are the most popular, most reliable and suitable for a small merchant to use.

Ease of use would get high scores from me.

And if I am selling multiple colours of the same item, would you sell each colour individually or in a fatpack?

As a consumer I am usually tilted towards just buying the 2 or 3 colours that I fancy rather than a fatpack of 10, but not everyone is the same otherwise fatpacks wouldnt exist.

All thoughts welcome...

Space

[Alwin Alcott]

I think the most obvious choices for machines are visible inworld, not that hard to see the two main brands used.

Your marketing question is so personal that it's hard to answer in general.
I'd rather see a fair price splitting on seperate colors instead of a 20% rebate or semi greed method with "only in fatpack colors" and not use half of it.

[Chic Aeon]

You CAN also just use the old time built in method of putting your goods inside a prim (in the case of cloths these usually have a texture with the color or print example on them) and sell the CONTENTS on touch or box up the items like you would for a vendor system and sell the box or unpacker box with a touch.   I have had many stores over my 17 years or so and never used a vendor system  Personally I prefer being able to see (inside a box) just what I am buying.  I have been caught a few times with vendors over the years.   I have also only had maybe a dozen items that needed to be redelivered. 

 

So you might want to start simply and see how your sales go.  I am of course (and not unexpectedly) NOT the norm here LOL.

And yes, selling both singly and in a fatpack is the way to go with wearables. 

[Flea Yatsenko]

3 hours ago, Chic Aeon said:

You CAN also just use the old time built in method of putting your goods inside a prim (in the case of cloths these usually have a texture with the color or print example on them) and sell the CONTENTS on touch or box up the items like you would for a vendor system and sell the box or unpacker box with a touch.   I have had many stores over my 17 years or so and never used a vendor system  Personally I prefer being able to see (inside a box) just what I am buying.  I have been caught a few times with vendors over the years.   I have also only had maybe a dozen items that needed to be redelivered. 

 

So you might want to start simply and see how your sales go.  I am of course (and not unexpectedly) NOT the norm here LOL.

And yes, selling both singly and in a fatpack is the way to go with wearables. 

This is the best answer, starting out you want to make as many products as possible and see what is going to earn the most L$ so you can focus on those areas. Don't waste time setting up vendor scripts and stuff until you get your store running well.

[InnerCity Elf]

On 9/26/2024 at 10:55 AM, Space Zehetbauer said:

Hi, I am considering selling a few fashion items at my gallery and was wondering what types of vending systems are the most popular, most reliable and suitable for a small merchant to use.

Ease of use would get high scores from me.

And if I am selling multiple colours of the same item, would you sell each colour individually or in a fatpack?

As a consumer I am usually tilted towards just buying the 2 or 3 colours that I fancy rather than a fatpack of 10, but not everyone is the same otherwise fatpacks wouldnt exist.

All thoughts welcome...

Space

As a consumer, I used to buy fatpacks a lot in the past, as I often was happy enough to find something that really fit well, didn't move oddly, when I moved, and such. That's become far less of an issue, though, and I rarely buy fatpacks now. However - sometimes, there are several fatpacks, e.g., for hair, or even clothes, like a pastel colour fatpack and a primary colours one, and I'd like one or two of each, so, "mix and match fatpacks" would be a nice thing. Not sure if that's possible technically, other than perhaps through a voucher system, which probably many sellers will consider too much work.

[Love Zhaoying]

@Space Zehetbauer, are you a "small merchant" as in, limited number of locations / items, or "small" like a Dinky or Tiny?

I don't know if most vendor kiosks can be sized, but a lot of vendor systems should let you put their scripts in any object.

I got used to the standard vendors with multiple items per kiosk with next/previous etc. But, I'm finding that vendors "for each item" make stores seem more immersive. (With one object for each fatpack option, sign with the info sometimes with "get demo", etc.)

Edited October 1 by Love Zhaoying

[Space Zehetbauer]

36 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

are you a "small merchant" as in, limited number of locations / items, or "small" like a Dinky or Tiny?

Definitely small merchant as in small number of items at one location.

What does that mean? Maybe selling 20 different garments, with a number of colour options for each garment.

What vendors are you familiar with?

 

[Love Zhaoying]

5 minutes ago, Space Zehetbauer said:

What does that mean? Maybe selling 20 different garments, with a number of colour options for each garment.

What vendors are you familiar with?

I am only familiar as a USER, although at one point years ago I think that I bought Hippovend (now defunct) or Caspervend.

Example vendor like I am talking about; in some, there are multiple products shown at once on a "3-fold display" and the "central" image may be the one the user is focused on.  Some also temp-rez a copy of the item to "see"..

My point earlier is that now I consider these styles "old fashioned".

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/s/Vendor-Machines-Full-Package/21682621

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/s/Vendor-Machine-12-Panels/21682620

[Space Zehetbauer]

9 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Example vendor like I am talking about; in some, there are multiple products shown at once on a "3-fold display" and the "central" image may be the one the user is focused on.  Some also temp-rez a copy of the item to "see"..

Ah yes, I know the ones you mean, you see them at places selling large objects like homes.

I think when it comes to clothes I see a lot of them with one option for each colour and then the big button for the fatpack.