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On 7/18/2021 at 10:11 AM, FreeToSL said:
The OPs complain is about a VERY narrow subset of clothes, namely: Fatpack, that uses tinted colouring instead of baked textures.
And to be honest, I would never buy something like that out of principle, because its basically ONE colour (The ambient occlusion texture), and then it takes all of 30 seconds to tint it.
And as a creator I would not sell my stuff mod, if I want the customer to tint it, I will put a hud with a colour palette, so they can play with the clothes, without risk of breaking them.
I understood the original post. I was adding on to others answers. I felt no need to repeat what was already stated by others. I do understand where the OP's is coming from as well. My statement still stands though.
As a creator myself, I do sell items that are modifiable, it just depends on what it is. As a customer, I don't purchase many mesh clothing if they don't have a texture changing hud. I enjoy those. It's the better option to the old fatpack ways. But yeah, I agree with you on the whole tinting thing. They wanted to be able to add onto the clothing though, like adding a rip and such which means editing it offworld iirc.
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On 6/13/2021 at 5:59 PM, Female Winslet said:
In fairness, many things in SL are rather petty. Parcel bans, for example. I've been given lifetime bans by people I've never even met. Once in a while they post things in their land description to make clear they are mad at me for an opinion I stated on these forums--usually for saying something needs to be done about orb and ban line abuse. Other times I have no clue who the person is or why my name is on their ban list.
I hate to say it, but why should retail transactions be any exception?
SL is a community full of all kinds of people. That's part of what makes it so great. Most people are pretty decent. But unfortunately, some people are petty jerks. That includes merchants too. I just wish we had better means of addressing it when people cross lines beyond being merely petty jerks.
My private residence has a parcel ban when it's on the ground level, otherwise it's a security orb when I'm in the sky (ban lines don't go up higher then around 300 or 500 meters). I use them due to having people just hang out and live in my home many different times on many different regions, which is a shame as I don't like getting in the way of those who are flying or walking around. The flip side of it is that technically you could fly up above the ban lines, over them then down onto the parcel itself. User ban lines, I'm not sure if there is a limit to how high those go to. (I've only banned my stalkers from my parcels) It always amuses me when someone has their building in the sky but they have parcel ban lines up. As for security orbs, I leave it with 3 or 5 minutes (due to ppl having dead LM's) and it just tp's them away from it (I don't use the ban or temp ban options). I also only do that with my private residence, otherwise it doesn't really matter to me unless it's a store that I'm working on and isn't yet open to the public.
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What LL needs to do is fix how merchants block customers. As it stand now, anyone on your ban list is blocked from purchasing from your store. There are those who I've banned (due to them attacking me, threatening me and using racial slurs) but I wouldn't care if they had purchased from me. In the other way, there are people who I want to ban from purchasing from me (they're known for copying items and just changing the color and scripting but everything else is pretty much the same or they are a stalker who I no longer want to see come across my screen). I've had a guy who was blasting my name around the group that I was mainly selling to but they would still purchase items from me. It became a hassle to block them from purchasing from me. Another problem with that is that the only way to block someone from purchasing from you inworld is if you use one of the many vendor systems out there, this is also a double edge sword if the item that you're selling is no copy to you and many don't trust no copy items within a vendor system as they can't see how many are actually it in clearly if the drop box also isn't on the same sim as the vendor (which is also harder as vendors are copy and can be placed at many different locations).
I do understand where you're coming from though. Most customer purchase bans are pretty legit while others are petty.
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I'm not sure if anyone has even mentioned this and I know that this is an old post.
What you're asking for is a double edge sword. Yes someone can break it and yes it may not even look right. But I'm going to assume that you know what you're doing. So when others go to inspect your clothing as they also want to buy it, they'll go to the creators marketplace or inworld store to look for it. They may end up messaging said creator inquiring about the item. Once they see that the item for sale isn't the same as what they had saw on you, they can become upset and lash out at the original creator. This is apart of why some chose to make their items no mod, it's to avoid that headache.
It's a reasonable request, just one that many just chose to avoid.
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Is the item listed? Does it have a green check mark or is that blank? More then likely you haven't activated the listing yet and that's why it's not appearing on your marketplace store.
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1 hour ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
Interesting. As of yet, I haven't seen an email - and I have 8-10 SL accounts with payment info on file, though only 4 are still Premium and thus subject to reoccurring charges. Or did they only send the email to folks that have previously taken money out of SL? Even though all of us will have to still agree to the Tilia TOS on Aug 1.
I just happened to go look at the blog shortly after they posted the info. Sometimes LL has the strangest ways of notifying their customers of stuff.
Out of my 4 accounts only my main had gotten the email as that's the only account that I sell lindens on and pull it out. Normally I see their emails 2-3 times when they're sent out.
1 hour ago, Lizbette Tearfall said:I am not cool with having to provide my SS# to anyone. I don't give it to the store clerk when I buy things with my debit /credit. I am NOT getting credit from Second Life so why do they need my social security number for me to buy lindens ?This just smells all wrong so after 10 yrs I may have to leave if u HAVE to accept this just to play.
You won't have to provide your SS# unless you're pulling cash from the tilia otherwise the only thing you have to do is accept the ToS for the tilia as we use it for MP purchases and linden purchases as well.
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1 hour ago, Chic Aeon said:
The email seems to be saying two different things.
Effective August 1, in order to continue using Second Life you will have to agree to Tilia’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A Tilia Account associated with your Second Life Account will automatically be created for you and you will not need a separate username or password to access your Tilia Account.
This sounds like EVERYONE. However I alerted some content creator friends on my list and they had not received the email. They are no in the US (but some folks here seem to be outside the US also) but THEY DON'T CASH OUT.
So perhaps that "you" in the email, really does MEAN that you only need to have an account if you turn lindens into cash. Unfortunately IF that is the case and you have any tier payments that go to SL (happily I do not) it means that you would not be able to change lindens into US dollars to pay your tier; it would need to come from Paypal or credit card.
Really not unusual that this is so convoluted. Attorneys never could agree on the legality of the August 2013 TOS changes.
And do we have ANY idea what the cash out fees (for those that continue to cash out) will be? Especially since the Tilia TOS says they don't actually need to send us an email of changes?
The tilia we're already are using for this. I just paid my land tier with my tilia balance, I had cashed out lindens to cover it. It'll still happen just fine but to process the fee, it sounds like we'll have to log onto our tilia accounts to move that USD balance over to whatever place we then want it to go.
The cashout fees aren't changing since the last fee increase not too long ago. Another user in the second life commerce group that I am in had found where they had stated the fees. It's still 3.5% on the lindex then another 5% processing fee.
1 hour ago, Malin Sabra said:So really nothing is changing other than if you leave a USD balance on your account you might get charges after 12 months of inactivity and you have to agree to another TOS.
Right and the inactivity charge is if the balance itself hasn't increased or decreased since it was put in there for 12 months since the deposit. I gave the tilia ToS a quick scan through but will be reading it more in detail later.
1 hour ago, Victorian Magic said:So to keep "playing" SL I need to accept Tilia terms and the account they set up for me and I will be charged an inactivity fee--when I've never cashed out but usually have cash from deposits to my account from credit cards.
Of course my account will be inactive I didn't ask for it. How much will THIS feature cost me on top of higher premium?
You shouldn't be charge a fee as you aren't holding a balance on the Tilia.
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2 hours ago, halebore Aeon said:
I do have a cash balance, but I am not an SL content creator. I upload money, that goes towards my premium payments. So does that mean it will affect me too?
The only thing you would have to watch out for is the inactivity but that shouldn't be an issue since your fees will come out every month for premium/land and you'll be adding to it. It's not like the balance is sitting there untouched. You'll won't need to provide anything as you aren't taking the balance from the tilia and moving it to your bank account or paypal. All you're doing with it is using it back within secondlife. Technically we are already using the tilia and they're just pushing out the last few steps. You should be fine and pretty much unaffected by the new change.
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2 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
The LL blog post is missing some info that I think we need.
The Tilia TOS sounds like it might be set up to allow for interaction with multiple online services, not just SL.
As far as SL is concerned, I can't figure out is Tilia is ONLY for process credit out, or if it also gets involved to pull money from your payment method for buying L$ or paying Premium and Tier fees. Also, when you sell L$ and get a USD balance, is that balance now going to be sitting at Tilia?
@Linden Lab- Your blog post is not specific enough.
Not yet sure if anyone has replied to this yet but we have already been using the tilia all over secondlife. Marketplace purchases have been using it since they had redid how our purchases were made and the tilia is already on our accounts for those that have been cashing it. They switched it over when they had moved where we find the link for the process credit on the account overview. They're now just making it official and doing the last few steps of enacting it.
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3072m2 grassland on a quiet sim for sale. It has 1054 prims with an asking price of 4000L$. I can also rent it out upon request.
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16 hours ago, Pamela Galli said:
Indeed you implied it. Why don’t you tell other people they shouldn’t work where they do because there is no guarantee their workplace will be around in five years? What makes people in SL in need of your advice that others are not?
It was never implied. You're taking it that way because you feel attacked. That's your problem not mine. This whole thread is mainly just an opinion piece and really a good bit of it can be taken as personal attacks if you decide to take it that way.
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3 minutes ago, Pamela Galli said:
If SL shuts down, and it shows zero signs of doing so anytime soon, I will continue to be self employed using the skills I have developed. There are many other ways to do that.
SL is not some special risky job that only lunatics would make a career of, even if you can’t imagine doing so.
I never said it was. You're putting words into my mouth that were never there and taking it a bit too personally.
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2 hours ago, Pamela Galli said:
Absurd. No businesses have guarantees. Look at how many solid money makers are now kaput.
I was a teacher, quit to run my business in SL full time ten years ago, and during all that time have made far more than I did teaching.
SL is like any job. When LL does things that are going to injure our income, and not always just by a few percent, we object.
That's good for you and I'm glad that it makes you happy. But in my personal opinion no one should depend on sl as it can be shut down or they can shut down at any given point and what would you do then? You can't really use them as a job reference. You'll have more skills, yes but no reference. It's just my personal opinion, don't take it so personally.
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Well one could always just leave on their tilia what LL takes out for land and account fees and take out the rest for whatever you may need it for irl. That's what I do but I also work as well irl so I don't depend on what I make from sales on here.
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8 hours ago, Jeny Howlett said:
the majority of people will be deterred though, i have seen many complain about mesh head and body prices already, some even complain if you set a gift to 1L instead of 0L
Well mesh body parts already start off around 1,000L$ and above, many aren't in love with it to want to spend that at once plus they'll need a whole new wardrobe. It's a lot to swallow.
8 hours ago, Elvina Ewing said:you are missing the point. There will be no new blood because it's not attractive anymore.
It has absolutely nothing to do with pride. It's just business. People will leave when they can't pay their bills anymore. If they said they would but haven't yet, it only means they have found a way to come by, that time. They might now, still. Some, others already left, a few more will probably leave now. But each time LL do this, there are less and less that are still left, and less new blood is coming by because it's now even less attractive, so if you do the math it will eventually run dry. It already is and it's a fact. But ignorance is bliss, so yeah whatever. I'm done repeating myself
Well the problem here is the fact that Linden Labs doesn't have to offer us the option of cashing anything out. They can also get rid of that option whenever they please or even shut down their service. For those reasons, second life should never be anyone's main source of income as it's not always grantee that it will be around in another 5 or so years. Hell even a very popular and only good mobile app has been pulled from the third party viewers site as well as google's play store as the creator of it has been MIA for awhile and it's not supported.
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10 hours ago, Elvina Ewing said:
are you suggesting that i have to increase the prices on my items to offset the 5% cashout fee? No can do. I can't afford losing even more sales. I see lots of people here on the forum shout "go raise your prices merchants, we the customers understand, we will still support you". The truth is: this is only your own opinion. You can only speak for yourself. To see if the majority of my customers agrees with you i will have to make a poll or just go ahead and try it out, and if you prove to be wrong and most people will not like the raise so much that they go elsewhere to shop then i will lose even more sales and valued customers. In the current dire position i cannot afford to lose customers/sales. So thanks, but no thanks, i decided to absorb the losses. Again.
No one can tell a merchant what to do. What everyone is really doing is stating their opinions. All of this can go about in many different ways and depending on your target market it'll differ on how well any change you do will go with them. Heck you could discontinue a product, release something a bit like the discontinued item but much better and not offer upgrades on it. Some will be upset and others will go ahead and buy the new product as they understand. Everything is pretty much 50/50 on how people take it. That's the way of the world. Every merchant is going to handle this increase differently as well.
9 hours ago, Elvina Ewing said:haha ok, if you think so.
The reason Blueberry and Truth are so huge and famous is because their work is brilliant. If there were others that can match their skills, they would have already been big and famous themselves. There are, too, but not many. If Truth decides to quit tomorrow do you think there will be others to replace her? Magicka and others like it are already there, and the new Truth will not come out of nowhere. Simply because it is not attractive anymore to create for SL for 3D artists with Truth's skills, as i already said up above. So, the result: SL ends up be a poorer place because Truth (and others like her) left, and no one new and equally good have come by.
I disagree a little bit here. SL will be a poorer place due to how little they expand our platform, fix what's already broken and advertise their own system. I don't hear much from Linden Labs on secondlife on the web. I see blogs from other people and all which is great but if they really want to bring in more people then they'll need to advertise, maybe even in the magazines and t.v. commercials. I have to explain what Second Life is to many people when they ask me what I do for fun and after awhile you just end up saying "I play on a virtual world, it's pretty fun". The problem here is that there are a lot of virtual worlds out there with a bit more coverage and those are the ones that they'll think of.
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2 minutes ago, Elvina Ewing said:
i'd like to see what's gonna happen if either McDonalds or Burger King raise their prices by 100%...
People will still eat there. Minimal wage is going up, McDonalds said that they were going to get rid of their cashiers and put in self check-outs which they did. The older customers complained about it, they kept one register for those who pay with cash or would rather go to them to order their food. I pay $2 more for my meal now then what I did last year. We all adjust to it.
I'm was playing around with numbers and cashing out, for me, it's not that much of a difference. For the bigger merchants who file their secondlife income on their taxes, they have already stated that it'll be added in with their taxes. I want to say that the ones who are effected the most by it are those who are living off of their income from their sales, it'll just make things a little bit tougher for them and a bit more work to get things where they need it.
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20 hours ago, Yaruu said:
You can check your spendings at your Account - L$ Transaction History - set your filter to the maximum 28 days (that is the maximum available) and you will get your monthly expenses.
Well as I read the post that Fox wants a source for, she's pretty much is saying that many people on average are spending that much but there really is no data for that and she should source something like that when she's adding in other people and not just herself.
I am a hobby creator and I have some breedables that I do. I cash out when I have enough to cover some unexpected bills irl or I keep it on my account to cover my tier and such. I know that some creators just write off those fees when they do their taxes as some have stated within the secondlife marketplace commerce group. Everything increases over time and I'm looking into processing fees and all that as I'm going to be opening my own bakery. Processing credit cards is not cheap at all and the fees is different for each card type which is why some cards aren't accepted by smaller merchants. There are about 14 groups that I'm in that I don't really need and could drop without an issue which would put me below 35 groups. As a premium member, I don't need 70 groups as I've never been one to be in a ton of groups to start off with. As a small merchant, I don't even bother with a store group, I do a subscriber instead. It saves everyone a space and lets be honest here, I don't send out a lot of notices anyways so my group would be one of the first few to be dropped.
I am happy that the land is getting cheaper, I have always wanted to own a full sim to play around with and that is starting to be closer to my price range. The cash out fee is a pain but it's easy to offset. Most merchants already have their MP items a bit more expensive then what it is inworld due to the fee that the MP takes out per sale. As a consumer, I don't mind when prices are increased as it doesn't change the quality of the work. I already love the store and will drop a good bit during my shopping sprees as those are the places where I'll stop at first. Stores come and go based on how much time that person has to spend on it and how their offline life is becoming. I already know of a few systems inworld who have been slowly raising prices as they grow before all of this and people still shop like crazy there. I haven't heard or seen any complaints about it from them.
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It also depends on how you filter it and how you want the results to be arranged on your page. I sometimes go from lowest to highest within a certain price range that I'm willing to spend during that particular shopping spree. If there's an inworld store, I may also go there to see if they have more products that aren't listed and to see if there are any displays or demos so that I can better see the item. Sometimes the marketplace is just another search for a good bit of consumers so you may get a lot of views but not sales from the MP as they may be buying it from you inworld instead.
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4 minutes ago, Mollymews said:
as my other personal group member. So I can wear vanity tags of my own wording over my head. Vanity tags which are not prim text tags
Tags are mainly just for you. No one really pays attention to them and some people even have that option turned off within their viewer. I for one pay no attention to what tag someone has over their head.
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4 minutes ago, Mollymews said:
the first part then ok I can see how that can work
on the second part tho, that seems to be a bit of a leap as a rationale
Why else would you have an alt. The only thing I would add on to it is a bank alt for storing some of your lindens so that you don't spend it all. From a merchant point of view we have alts to help test our buildings, for the store and things of that sort. Roleplayers have alts for the different areas that they like to RP in. All of those accounts can be in different groups and I agree with what @Fox Wijaya said. Groups weren't meant for how they're used now and groups do send out a lot more notices now then what they did before and many of them are the same notices within a bunch of different groups. As a consumer, I only need 3 or 4 discount groups if I was to join them as a few stores are in more then one of them to begin with. So if you just join the big major ones then the smaller ones are technically also covered as some merchants join all of the ones that are out there. So you'll go to their store for the fifty-five Fridays deal or whatever and will see the other deals as well that they have going on. Even the gotcha and midnight mania groups, would only need 2-4 of those as the same messages get posted in all of the ones that whoever is posting it is also in. So the ones with the most ACTIVE users are the ones that you'll want to join.
Groups should be cleaned up and have the inactive users removed and those with deleted accounts as well. Group members don't load up after they hit x amount of people so if it's a merchant group and you need help from a csr, you wouldn't be able to do it the fast and easy way via the group members list if they aren't listed within their store (which may be full from a sale that they have going on) so you'll end up posting a message within the group and it may or may not get answered as that csr may be busy in their IM's helping others.
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Groups have always been an iffy thing. The settings for them will sometimes act like you didn't select or deselect it. I won't receive notices from groups that I tell it to and I'll be online when they're set or group IMs will open for groups that I've turned that off for. I personally prefer subscribers or I will just pop back into the store from time to time.
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@Mollymews Well a lot of those groups also have subscribers so you can join that instead and get the same information sent out within the group via a notecard. It's a lot less to go through at once and you're less likely to have your offline messages capped from all of the notices sent out.
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Well businesses raise their prices every year. McDonalds does it, Burger King, grocery stores. We all still pay the price as we gotta eat or wear clothing. It is what it is and it's apart of the economy. There will always be a few who decide to not pay it and there will be those who are loyal who will still keep shopping. Either way, nothing will change as those who won't pay it probably wouldn't keep coming back to you anyways. I know that some items have increased at my favorite shops slowly over time and I still shop there. I enjoy their products and I'm willing to pay that price. It doesn't change the quality of the work a single bit and some of it I believe is too cheap personally.
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I have a question. Would mystery boxes be counted for that? I know of a store that puts together such boxes. You pay a set amount and you don't really know what you're going to get within the box until the date comes for the release. It's kinda like a gacha in a way.