Dima Plessis

Depends which question you are saying yes to. Yes LL will force a monopoly to their vending system, or yes 3rd parties will be allowed?

Do you have any idea how much time it will take for creators to go through all their gachas and change permissions, update ads, test, repackage, update vendors and MP, etc.? Even simple updated can be weeks of work when you have hundreds of items in your store. I am willing to bet a lot of gacha items will simply be pulled from the shelves because it's too time consuming to update thousands of individual items and potentially a few hundred packs of gachas like some stores have. Not to mention the impact on gacha events which have been running for years. The least LL could do is give creators and event organizers more time to make changes to comply with the new policy in time.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give creators more time. This is making a lot of work for gacha creators to update their products to comply with the new policy, not to mention several events that sell gachas will either have to change their events or close entirely. Please give creators more time to adjust.

Yes, but that was ten years ago. Plenty has changed since then. We're talking about a sudden change impacting sellers happening over what... 8 months? It may well be that prices go up, I don't know, but I am guessing customers will not be happy about it. Nor does it give users much confidence if the in game economy starts making drastic shifts that appear to give them less value for their money.

I can see how that might seem appealing, however that also means those $L you buy are worth less. Those who are charging you (for rent, goods, etc.) will potentially have to raise their prices in order to offset the loss of the $L being worth less when cashed out. For example, if I were to do my max allowed cash out of $2,000 USD a month the difference of 10L (from the usual 250 I used to cash out at to what now seems to be settling at about 260L per $1 USD) I loose $77 just from the 10L change in the sell rate that we've seen in the last 6 or so months. Add on top of that the increased cash out (from 2.5% to 5%) and MP fees (from 5% to 10%) and creators are facing a difficult choice. Keep prices the same and keep losing money, or increase prices and upset customers who thought a better exchange rate in their favor meant they could buy more stuff?

Sure, but it's a massive waste of time when a) you don't know if/when your stuff can or will be delisted again when the next person decides to add more words to the filter and b) You may have to do this time consuming process of elimination for tens of listings. Nothing against you for making the suggestion, for those who want to bother trying, but LL needs to fix this. Come on LL, you already raised the MP fees to 10% but rather than get a better MP experience it seems like lately the MP is more work than it's worth. Deslistings for innocuous words, gacha scams leaving sellers out of valuable items AND the money they were paid? No thanks. Honestly I've just removed all my current products and use MP for only my oldest items. To me it's just not worth the time, effort, and fee hike.

I would normally agree, and I tried to switch to using folders in my MP listings but I have had repeated issues with editing MP listings that use a folder. For whatever reason I can't always see all the items in the folder after I've listed it, so if I need to change something included in the listing I can't delete the old items in the folder. I eventually gave up and went back to boxing everything because I can always see it when there is a single item in the folder.

Paypal doesn't charge to transfer your balance to your bank account, so PayPal fees don't come into play for exchanging money out of SL. All the fees are on the LL side. Fees to sell on MP. Fees to exchange you $L to your balance. Fees to transfer that balance to PayPal. Those fees continue to rise, and that means the price of products in world will be pushed upwards. All you folks buying goods from creators are probably going to be paying these fees eventually, through the increased cost of doing business in SL. If you're ok with that, allrighty, just please don't complain when SL goods are expensive.

I am seriously considering removing all current products from MP and using it only for items no longer available in world. I cannot afford to pay 10% commission plus the exchange and cashout fees and I am trying really hard to avoid raising costs for customers.

I'd just like to point out that although some of the questions I asked on the official Q & A thread were answered, every single question related to a possible near future increase in fees, charges, decrease in $L value or further restrictions on cashing out were not answered. They may say the fees and such will stay the same at the time of the switch, but the unsaid caveat seems to be "for now".

Agreed, which is a red flag for me. Why were they not thinking about something this crucial before the announcement?

9. If our transactions have already been going through Tilia for a while with no changes for the users... what's changed now? Why do we now need to accept a new TOS? What exactly is changing to create the need to make this switch come August 1st?

This is in regard to the verification process to use Tilia for cash out, not for individual transactions. Yes, it is a long time which is why I pushed for an answer about how we can start the verification now for minimum down time on being able to cash out. Their official answer is basically "Well we don't have that part figured out yet"

From the new thread: I find it a little frustrating that LL hasn't considered how to answer something as simple as how we start the verification process before announcing we may have to go through a verification process. That seems like it should be squared away before the announcement.

7. Will Tilia be offering additional services or tiers of membership at extra cost? For example, paying a monthly fee or higher percentage for faster processing time, a one time fee to increase cash out limit, etc. 8. Will there be any benefit for the end users? Faster processing on cash out, more security, anything?