Manda Braveheart

The last post I can see here was in July, but it is November and I am STILL having this problem, even more now than ever. Several items I have ordered through the Marketplace over the last month have been delayed for more than an hour and some were even reported as delivered when I had not received them. We shop on Marketplace for CONVENIENCE, but lately it is becoming much more convenient to go to the in-world location and shop there. Lag is faster than Marketplace delivery delays. In fact, if I order a RL pizza and buy something on Marketplace at the same time, chances are very good that I will get the pizza first and probably have time eat it, too, before my Marketplace order arrives... if it arrives at all. It's time consuming and frustrating to sit around waiting for delivery, writing notecard requests to the merchants asking them to solve the problem, and waiting for them to answer sometimes days later. Furthermore, AS A MERCHANT myself, I have to watch for notecards and check email for missed (capped) IMs to make sure customers aren't trying to contact me about deliveries. The current state of Marketplace is more of a hassle than it ever was useful.