TheGator wrote:
Yes, I'm furious as well. I don't know about anyone else but my MP sales have been completely wiped out since these Linden Lab discounts went live.
I'm a very small seller but I have a couple of L$10 items that sell consistently. One of them is a Xmas tree so obviously that has been selling well in the past month.
Then on 26 Nov my sales stopped dead. I've been selling consistently at a low level. I made two sales on Nov 25 but since then nothing at all. My sales have fallen off a cliff.
At first I didn't realize why. but I'm on my third day now with zero sales. And yesterday I noticed my alt had received an email promoting "sales" on the marketplace from select sellers.
Am I angry with Linden Labs? You bet.
Thanks for this post, you have just taken the words right out of my mouth, this is also exactly what happened to me.
My store is fairly new to boot, i only started selling clothes and a few other bits & bobs for a couple of months now. i don;t make any huge profits or anything like that, just enough to do my next outfit and a bit to get by to do other things i enjoy in sl. It is something new and fun for me, but I agree, it is also still a huge slap in the face by LL, for pushing out any competition in the MP and for small business.
Even, I have found, with paying to advertise you items, you are still really on an unfair playing field. I started paying for advertising at first and i would be scrolling around looking for my items, for pages and pages, even after tweaking the search fields, I would be thinking, why am I even advertising?? So that stopped.
But yes, I will be a happy camper when this show is over as just like you and probably many other smaller outlets, my sales ground to a complete halt on Nov 26th and the email I received promoting this, went straight to my delete box.