Blueberryxx

I was mentioning the exact same thing actually.

It is fair when the other platform is a direct competitor of SL think other 3D chat platforms where people sell their creations, the answer is right there.

Oh, I have literally no objections that MP needs massive, massive improvements and that SL needs a way to bring in new life and that's LL's responsibility. For sure. No arguments there at all. I had no idea about what happened to scripters thank you for the insight.

stop this lolllllll I am dead

All joke aside though, us acknowledging the general fees doesn't give them the power to raise as they like. They already know what their competitors are charging. They probably talk about it every meeting. It never resulted in a massive crazy change and it shouldn't. What I don't like is acting like it is the end of the world that they did raise the fees to 2.5% to cash out. If they did ever do something crazy, we have literally nowhere to go. We gotta know when to be fair and when to really speak against so it counts.

lol!! zipping it immediately

I feel that the fee we are paying is definitely way lower than the industry standard. Including the most close competitors of SL. I don't believe Linden Lab are trying to be malicious they are trying to find a new balance without lowering the company's value, which would be awful for everyone doing business in SL. At the end of the day if someone is cashing out 10,000 and feels 250 usd is too much of a fee to pay to the platform is going to face a very harsh reality stepping outside of SL. Think about it this way, we don't have an office overhead most of the time unless you are a professional team with multiple employees, we hardly have any marketing budget bloggers advertise for free. What is left from essential overheads? 5% marketplace fee, 2.5% cash out fee, the land you are on. Sounds more than reasonable to me. I don't see the greed. If Linden Lab came about and said ok guys we are going to do 25% then yes, that's awful as people have bills they have budgeted their life according to their monthly income. That would be cruel. But again from just looking at the history you can see that, that is not the way Linden Lab operates. At all. I understand we all have to be realistic and can not be all hopes of dreams, but we can not also be cynical and project that onto our views and call it just being real.

I don't have any insider info, I haven't spoken to any Linden. Disclaimers first. I read the forum and saw some numbers thrown around like 25%-30%. I am going to elaborate before it catches wildfire. I highly doubt you will ever see Linden Lab come out and say okay now you go from 5% to 25% because we said so. Linden Lab has always been very restrained in how they do their changes. Notice how they just reduced the land fees without increasing the fees with it at the same time? It's because (I am assuming) they want to see what exactly needs to change and from what I am seeing they would rather slowly decrease on land to find a middle point where creators won't pay too much but neither will the customers. So from what I have seen so far I expect there to be a raise of 2.5% and they might add another 2.5% if that didn't cover. But from what we have seen over the years, I do not foresee anything in the lines of a sudden crazy change. Linden Lab may have been slow at times, but they are far far smarter than everybody is giving them credit for. I believe @Grumpity Linden when they say they see as partners. We are partners. We are the most significant part of SL economy when utilized properly. Again, these are my personal expectations, predictions. No claim has been made by any Lindens to me.

Responding to 3 - I am personally more than happy to pay to contribute to a healthy stable platform where my income is based. You guys have my 100% support. I am incredibly happy to see changes in an amazing direction.

I would like to also tag @Xiola Linden our amazing Community Manager. Hear us please.

There needs to be a store manager option who can edit or create listings, because we want to be able to delegate but we don't want to break TOS or put our account in any danger.

I desperately need everything Charlotte listed. I would be willing to pay monthly packages for premium features for merchants on marketplace, gladly.

This needs to be implemented