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Rya Nitely wrote: They may be doing it from oldest first. I've been watching those, and up until yesterday the first several pages (i stopped paging after a while) were all still using magic boxes. All gone now or changed to DD. From the very old accounts there are people who have once paid an amount and get a life time free premium account for that. So there might be magic boxes on these old premium lands, from people who never or rarely login to SL. I don't think we will see the merchandise from those boxes coming back as DD.

Interesting experiment. Thanks for sharing, Deja.

Since this started I have 2 to 4 items flagged each day. Today my innocent icecubes were flagged. It seems keyword related, I had the word 'whiskey' among them, that was the only thing referring to alcohol. I can imagen some alcoholics anonymous is amusing himself for a few hours flagging alcoholic drinks, but not four days on a row. My guess is that the lab is forcing their policy.... but why now? I'm really curious what is behind this.

It is not said that the delay happens on the side of LL. It can also be Paypal. It can have to do with where you live, and how you are verified at PP.

Amethyst Jetaime wrote: I think they are interchangeable. Creator Tools was the category people put sculpts in when they first came out. A while later MP added Sculpted Prims Creator Tools. I always look at the latter first when I am searching for something since it is divided up in categories, the Creator Tools are not. Yep, that is the history of how those two categories came there. But now Commerce Team has been working on category updates. So there must be a reason that these both categories still exist. On May 1st they begin to force listings in the new category hierarchy, according to the post in "Be Heard - Proposed New Marketplace Categories". So everyone who sells sculpties needs to understand what the difference is between these both categories. And I really have no clue...

Can you please explain the difference between the categories: Building and Object Components -> Creators Tools -> Sculpted Prims and Building and Object Components -> Sculpted Prims Creator Tools

I made a mistake, I forgot to include the adult items. Anyway, at the moment the number is 2305032 (without adult items). so + 400

At the moment we have 2.304.625 items in the marketplace. I'm curious to see if we will have less tomorrow...

Hmmz, last few days I had also several items flagged for being marked as general. In my case it were items like sigarettes and alcolhol drinks. Or someone with too much time on hands is voluntary flagging every single item that has something to do with smoking or drinking. Or someone at the lab has a hard time... going through all marketplace listings.

Also delay for 'flagged item' notifications. I saw a few when I entered my merchant page. I changed the category and listed them again. Notifications of flagging arrived much later, after I had already changed the flagged items.

iCade wrote: who doesn't love freebies? Me. I avoid them nowadays. I used to love them when I was still a young avatar. I could spend days with hunting freebies, fitting them or rezzing them. I learned a lot from playing around with freebies. But after a while it became to much of a hassle to check everything out I picked up, and most of all cleaning up that inventory every time, put things in folders, ohterwise you don't even remember you have them. When I was about one year old I deleted most freebies from my inventory. More then 50% were boxes I had never ever opened. I enjoy it more to create, then to pick up someone elses creations. It is much easier to keep your inventory organised when you buy what you need, and let the rest sit on the grid (or in het marketplace) where it sits.

I always cash out at the first of the month. Days I had to wait last year are: 3 3 5 4 5 4 4 4 4 8 6 5 8 days was the cash out in January this year. Cashing out within 3 days did not happen since April 2012.

I had a nice one as well today for a mesh item. I was a 2 star review, saying that the item looks beautiful, but very disappointing that it doesn't come with a mesh map, thus their is no way to give the mesh your own name as creator. I flagged it, and two hours laters it was gone.

It is different for each merchant, some do great by participating in hunts or MM boards. For others it helps to advertise in magazines and on websites, others mainly concentrate on sending messages to groups they belong too. Even buying listing enhancement on marketplace works for some merchants. I tried about everything when it comes to marketing and advertising. It will cost you a lot of time to reach a broader audience then you would have reached without advertising. After some years of marketing activities I gave up on 99% of them. My conclusion is that the time spend on marketing is better spend on making new products. At least for my brand is a new release on marketplace the best advertisement for my other products I can get.

LL has put the marketplace doors open for cheaters, frauds, charlatans, cheaters, thiefs, tricksters, chiselers, sharks, clips, absconders, con artists, counterfeiters, deceivers, dodgers, grifters, rascals, rooks, scammers, defrauders, sharpers, falsifiers, slickers and crooks. The responsibility to deal with them is reserved for shopping residents.

As merchants we are interested to sell our products. Why are we not approached with the possibility to buy banner ads to advertise in the dashboards and the forums? Or does LL maybe think we cannot produces such ugly banners as their current ones?

The Commerce Team has never dealt with in world sales, and I hope it stays this way. I have an in world vending system that is working, has the features I need and doesn't have any bugs. The marketplace doesn't have the features I need, contains bugs, and makes me sink in ranking everytime Commerce Team updates something in the marketplace. Don't let them break anything that is working fine now.

Since I in 2007 discovered Xstreet and OnRez, the chance that I will become your customer when you had no presence there, or currently on the SL Marketplace is almost nihil. But the chance to have me as a customer is also very small when your shop has no in world presence. I used Xstreet and OnRez mainly to orientate on the available merchandise, but bought in world. I still like to go the in world shop to buy what I have spotted on the marketplace, because I like to see what kind of atmosphere the designer creates in his shop. I might as well buy something else when I come across items that catch me. Also I prefer to give 100% of the items price to the merchant above 95. It helps to pay tier or rent. LL gets enough from me already for land, account and fees.

I like the works of Gaudi. For example this one. I like it for the organic shapes. My favourite architure in SL doesn't exist anymore. It was the Gallery of Reflexive Architecture. The builds were not static, but changed in the presence of an avatar and reacted to avatar movement.

Hi Meshes I do allow transfer to alts. A license is something between you and another human being. With a license you transfer some of your rl rights to another rl person, not to another avatar. An avatar cannot actually buy a license, it is the person behind the avatar that buys the license. A person has only to pay me once for the use of my products in SL. I don't mind if he has one alt or six, as long as it are alts. Business partners is something else, because here we have to do with another rl person. He has to buy his own license to work with our products. That is my view on the matter, but I know there are other creators who do have the same term of use as you: no transfer to alts.

How about a creative action from merchants to make the lab aware of this problem? For example: Take a biggest empty box you can find at your local supermarket home with you. Seal the box without putting anything in it. Write somewhere on the box in big letters: "We don't want empty boxes on our marketplace." Adress it to the receiver: Linden Lab Headquarters 945 Battery Street San Francisco, CA 94111 And bring it to your local postoffice. We are with 50.000 or so. When each of us sends his box on the same day, it will sure have some impact in those headquarters.

WADE1 Jya wrote: The only way I see Linden ever changing their ways is if USA government passes one of the many aggressive new IP legislations in the works. Linden would then be force d to stop making a business off being accessory to theft by collecting their commis sions off all these sketchy transactions. I see another possiblitiy as well. LL not only gains from from IP right theft, it costs them as well. It costs them customers who decide not to participate in the virtual economy any more after being cheated, but nobody at the lab will have a sleepless night because of that. A cost they might be more sensitive to, it that of salaries of copyright agents. The more the marketplace is used, the less selling stolen content in world has become attractive. So people trying to make some quick money by ripping honest creators, are driven to the marketplace as well to make some bucks. But many more eyes are watching there then in some vague sim somewhere hidden on the grid. It's often customers who own items of a creator that recognise stolen content, and are willing to warn the original creator. Developments with picture recognation might also be good to hunt stolen content on the marketplace. Such a tools cannot be used in world, be migth become usefull on the marketplace. Visibility of stolen content on the marketplace will lead to more DMCA reports then stolen content on the grid does, because the catch factor is much higher. So maybe one day, when the legal department of LL claims they need more personal to handle all those DMCA reports, somebody in the position to make decisions starts feeling the need to reduce the abuse.

That seems safe enough. Article 7 in TOS is important in your situation. 7.1 You retain any and all Intellectual Property Rights in Content you submit to the Service. You retain any and all Intellectual Property Rights you already hold under applicable law in Content you upload, publish, and submit to or through the Servers, Websites, and other areas of the Service, subject to the rights, licenses, and other terms of this Agreement, including any underlying rights of other users or Linden Lab in Content that you may use or modify. In connection with Content you upload, publish, or submit to any part of the Service, you affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or have all necessary Intellectual Property Rights, licenses, consents, and permissions to use and authorize Linden Lab and users of Second Life to use the Content in the manner contemplated by the Service and these Terms of Service. You are the IP right owner of your tga files. You can decide what people can an cannot do with your creations. LL has nothing to say about that, it is not their IP right. Your buyers however can only upload to SL with your permission. And they are best of when they can show that permission in case it would be needed. The most simple solution is to a make a user license that states the rights and limitations that come with your tga files, and make this license visible on the site where people can read it before they buy the items. It would be even better when they must push a 'I agree' button before they can actually download the file. Put the file in a zip together with the user license so people have a copy of it.

vickiadams wrote: I don't know if I am going to do this or not. I am really not interested in being a merchant, and don't really have the time. The reason I am thinking about this is that a friend has an existing site and is selling such things as manuals on very specialized writing for scientists, stuff for chemists (her husband is a chemist), and other files for highly specialized professional use. She has offered to sell clothing tga files that I have created. It would require no work on my part other than e-mailing the files to her. I really doubt that I would have any significant sales, All of the files would be things I have created from scratch for fun. Since I don't expect any significant income, there would be no reason for me to try to sell anything I did not create. How well do you know this friend? Is it a rl friend that you know for years or a sl friends that you know for some weeks? To me it seems a very strange combination, professional manuals and writings for chemists and SL clothing templates. Why would someone with a professional website be interested in hosting SL templates? I would be a bit on my guard with such an offer. How sure are you that this friend really means well with you and your creations?

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