Lys1990

There is. Just look at the quality of the stuff sold there for 1 L$. It's mostly some cheap shows, know one ever head off, selling hardly creative stuff since it's, like said above, just resell of full-perm items with some cheesy texture. No quality or popular shop offer demos for 1 (or 10) L$, they all offer it free. Demos for the reputable (and successful) SL shops put the demos for free on the Marketplace. Only cheesy vendors have either no demos at all (which in 99.9% means, their product is crap, badly rigged, not supporting the major mesh bodies or just *****ty textures or it looks like made out of paper) or they charge for demo, which is almost always the same too. Such lame excuses as that its for redelivery or anything else is just lame. No one wants to gift demos, who ever wants to try it itself just grabs it from MP or inworld. It's just these vendors who cry and complain, that the SL Market is declining, but the reality its just that they never cared to create quality products and now get the bill for it

That's just an lame excuse, they are just greedy. As greedy as these vendors are who sell demos for L$. They know their ***** sucks and no one would purchase it, once they try out the demo, so why not grab the 1 L$ for the demo then anyways. If they find 10000 Idiots getting this demo, they already made good amount of L$, since most of the crap there is already purchased as full-perm for 250 L$ or so and put on some cheap crap looking texture on it.

Gatcha should be banned, but not from Martketplace. It should be banned from in-world too. Gatcha is just a form of gambling and illegal in most countries in the world. But unlike SL Casinos, its oddly allowed which is strange and Linden Labs by allowing it to continue and even actively supporting it (like on these Shop & Hop Event) where minors and children can access this gambling machines, they are violating not only US but also international laws. Gatcha should, if ever, only be allowed to people over 21, who have a verified their age via a SSN (Social security number), Tax-number or identification card/passport) and who live in countries which allow gambling. And item created for gatcha would need to be flagged specifically so they can only be trade between other people who live in countries which allow gambling and are age verified (see above). It's morally reprehensible to allow such things to exist in SL. I for my part will make sure to notify the EU and my countries local authorities about this illegal gambling activities in SL so they can take legal steps against Linden Labs