Kathlen Onyx

OH please. You knew exactly what you were doing. As usual you post a thread and Luna hijacks the whole darn thing making it all about her. I've taken a nap in between this debacle and it's still going strong.

Seeing as regions are paid for through a bank account of the avatar that owns them, we'll draw our own conclusion.

Not the way forums work. Use the block feature.

I disagree and I bet I could get 2 more people to agree with me.

As a consumer you know you could always pay the creators that you buy your things from what you think they deserve to be paid. Every single one of them you buy from. It would be a cool experiment and prove your point better than just stating it on a forum.

Not once in this thread have you mentioned the consumer perspective in any positive way. (rolls my eyes)

Yeah I can't wait for all the "influencers" that all quit their job to make videos on cuckoo clock to realize that was a pretty stupid idea.

Well if she's your friend perhaps you could donate your revenue from your sales to help her out. At least till we get this issue solved.

Plight of creators? Dramatic.

Yeah see my attitude for paying a better wage for something that could disappear in an instant is nil at best.

OMG I hate that as much as the wagging finger!

Ok but if a creator of a microwave didn't sell their particular model what happens? They reduce the price and have a lightening sale. So the item is not worth more, it's worth LESS.

Now you are bringing RL into the mix and that is a no-no and has no bearing on this thread conversation at all. Mainly because creators are not in the helping profession.

SL word of the day...clickys. Love it!

There are plenty of trees on the marketplace and inworld that look perfectly beautiful a lot longer than 2 years. The rest of this post has nothing to do with your original post. Now you want us to compensate you for possibly theft of goods?

First and foremost. My name is Kathlen. Please use it. Second, people do this in RL all the time. Lots of people leave jobs because they don't feel that the amount of work they do is worth the pay.

I agree with you there. There is some pretty ugly stuff out there. Obviously the creator didn't vet their audience very well if this happens. I'm not paying any amount of money for two strings and a square of material, ever.

No Luna, you aren't getting it. They don't have to be paid beans. You can simply not do it if you don't believe the compensation is enough for your effort.

Well then, you'd better go out and "sell" that tree. You'll need to sell about 2000 of them. Did I mention you are still earning on the original time it took you to make one tree. Imagine if a woodworker made a beautiful table and it just multiplied by magic without having to lift a finger besides making the initial table. I bet they'd be happy.

This may be a stupid question but could you use a deformer on a Maitreya 5.3 to make it look like Lara X?

The problem with the calculations is that we don't actually know how much a creator makes on an item because we don't know what the items total sales are. If you make a dress and price it at $L300 and it takes you 2 hours to do everything from start to finish and you sell two then yes your hourly rate is low. However, if you spend two hours making an item and sell 1000 of them then your hourly rate just went sky high without putting anymore work into it. In fact people keep the same prices on items that are brand new and items from 10 years ago most of the time. On the other hand I'll see things in the MP that say "now only $L199 for the next 24 hours" 3 years later it's the same price. So they really don't care a whole lot what they get for some things because obviously it was too much work to change it and they must be happy with what they are getting or don't care. Edit for additional thought: I might offend a few DJ's with this comment but probably 80% of the DJ's in SL don't even deserve the $L100 tip because they put NO effort into it. Anyone can press a button and play a song and say up next is Michael Jackson's Thriller. A good DJ engages the audience and make the experience fun. Those are the ones I tip.

I need to know how to do this!

There is soon to be a new release of all mesh body hands. It has the ability to be ambidextrous. Even though it's just the hand that is changing, all residents will be require to purchase all new clothes as the old ones will not work on the body, even with alphas. You can get this for the low, low price of 18 easy payments of $59.99.

Oh come on...you aren't seriously upset by this are you? Do you really think they took all your virtual pets and turned them into Godzilla? Your reaction must be an April Fool's joke. If not, lighten up!