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I really dislike receiving items in souless folders rather than nicely packed into a box. I like the boxes because 1 Some of them are very clever and nicely designed artifacts and show keen sense of design and marketing style 2. If the item contains information of an important nature then the pop out notecards and textures are really useful. 3 It's easier for storage and saves me the time of having to rezz a new box in order to place the things that came in a lazy Marketplace folder, so that my inventory doesn't get more overloaded than it is already. Long Live Prepacked Boxes :-) That's my tuppence worth! ^L^

Every west coast tech company takes the same stance - there are never any problems until they have been fixed. Once sorted, they will acknowledge that there were some minor difficulties. As LL have a woeful record of mending MP problems my guess is that it will be freezing day in hell before anyone from Battery Street actually confirms there is / was a problem. ^L^

Every now and then the incurable optimist residing in my head decides to give it another go. So today I let the gear wheel turn for six hours and still no show :-( Shame! - Important little things like that worked fine on xstreet. ^L^

OOPS - I just noticed Pamela's thread on this self same topic - so that answers my question - I'm not in the club of 1 with this problem. Seems to be across the board. ^L^

Over the last week or so I thought that my sales had taken one of their regular dips. But they hadn't. Instead I noticed that I would get notification of sales in now irregular clusters throughout the day. Fair enough, storing messages to be sent out in bursts is quite understandable but then I dug a little bit deeper. My Marketplace Order and transaction histories report that sales have been made which do not show up on my Main SL transaction history for about an hour or so but I guess that is a bit better than the 5 hours + it is taking for email notifications of the same sales to be sent to me. It wasn't always this slow in fact I used to get notices flashing in my inbox within a few minutes of each sale. Has this become the new standard for others as well or is it just a quirk related to my account? If I was to try and pinpoint when this trouble started I'd say it was around the time all the extra email reporting facilities were introduced. I'm not expecting a fix anytime soon if ever - afterall I have never been able to get a Marketplace 'top searched' report since day 2 of the launch way back. ^L^

Probably eats more time snitching on people and brands and raises your blood pressure to unhealthy levels, as well as upsetting I don't know how many innocents, than just drilling in or moving on. Personally I don't really have a problem finding anything I am looking for in the market place. Although I do hate the heirachical listing method that the Lab adopted but the tools are there to dig in if you are patient. We have become such an instant gratification society that we seem to have forgotten that search anywhere is far from perfect. If I search for a an open category like 'Skulls' I expect that there will be a bundle of other material that I consider non-related others legitimately feel is relevant. I also expect when I do a search that there will be a degree of what some people call keyword spamming and others refer to as 'Marketing'. It's pretty easy to spot from the listing picture if the item is relevant or not and if not then I just move on. I don't believe that snitching make the slightest difference or leads to improving the borked system. It only encourages LL to maintain their silly and flawed indexing system and upholds their love of turning resident against resident. ^L^

I agree. Notecards are the single most troublesome inefficient method of communication. I go out of my way to advise customer NOT to send me notecards but for some ingrained reason they mostly think that they are the guaranteed way to grab attention. Worse still (for me) is the dumb stupid 'My Second Life' web based communication channel which I flatly refuse to use or read. I tell my customers upfront NOT to use that channel but still a few attempt it (almost 100% newbies) ^L^

Are you 100% certain the funds came from Josh and not from a Disney clad Madman obsessed Linden box burning revenge bear determined to undermine and neutralise all virtual world conspiracy theorists at a stroke? ^L^

100% in favour of your proposition. Rodvik's acknowledgement of the importance of the merchant community is waaaay over due and I would like to see a series of 'brown bag' type meetings with full transcripts made available for ongoing community discussion. The current commerce team have proven themselves to be a secretive cabal with their behind the scenes meetings with favoured merchants, completely uncommunicative with the greater volume of merchants, incompetent when implementing upgrades and changes and it would seem totally incapable of adding any merchants reporting tools that are even half way as useful as we had with good old old xstreet and onrez NOR can they fix the pathetic broken facilities they forced on us at launch 2 years back. One of the first rules of marketing is to find out what your customers want and then give it to them. However the LL commerce team seem to have their heads stuck up their collective coding backsides and have forgotten to actually find out what their customers really need and have chosen to give us what they want instead whether it is of practical use or not. In short they seem to have forgotten who ultimately pays their wages. Come on Rod - lets talk! ^L^

It's a plot to to support their mentors, mainly the Chinese and Russian regimes. Would a free speech protest from from a group called 'Kitty Riot' in Moscow have gathered such attention I wonder. LL have a track record in community relations that could shame the worst of the worlds regimes and their overly prudish governed by lawyers strategy is a masterclass in corporate stupidity. ^L^

Their server was probably getting swamped with futile replies having dumped the 'no-reply' from the subject line. Next attempt from CT 'service-no-reply' perhaps ! If nothing else they have created another months worth of work for themselves that doesn't actually involve fixing something important or adding a useful feature. ^L^

"but why make this change when there are so many other much higher priority fixes that need attention?" Possibly a little bit of system integration work before moving full "Steam" ahead! ^L^

Yes I noticed a few minutes ago and came in here to check if anyone else had picked up on it. What alerted me was no sales were showing up in my inbox BUT my spam count was bigger than it normally is. Which is exactly where my notification were being placed. Thanks LL and commerce team for yet another helpful piece of communication - NOT! After all it's just a game to you isn't it! ^L^

LOL - the nutters are taking over the nut house. I was recently busted for having a listing called 'Empty Box' I created it for evaluating and testing search. It was just a single prim listed as such and stated on the description that it was a search test only. Not knowing what category was best suited I chose to put it in building components after all it is a prim and they are always used for building. Well not according to the marketplace police who removed it because it was in the wrong category. Off course they didn't sugest which category my single prim empty box should be placed in - that would involve thinking and we can't have too much of that can we? ^L^

I doubt if anyone at LL considered it a reasonable 'flag' as it is apparent that, (if not a bot) responding to the flags it might as well be, as the employee / moderator or whatever their titles are, take no care whatsoever to investigate and review the flags and just press the remove button like an automaton. If they did check they would at least be able to give a resonable explanation as to the take down. And not lead us on a not so merry dance of filing tickets and wasting time and valuable resources. Also it has been known for items to be removed arbitrarily from the market place for so called copyright infringement without the merchant being given or sent a DMCA email or note or explanation by the administration. ^L^

Read The Trial by Franz Kafka. It won't help you get your 5 items listed but it will give you some insight into the Linden Labs mindset. ^L^

Best advice is to flag the nasty reviews - sadly there is not a facility to explain the flag in detail but the Commerce team advice is to make a reply relating to the nasty review. When they go in and check the flag they will then remove both the nasty review and your reply if they feel the flag is justified. You could also drop Dakota Linden a line as she is the flag finder general for the marketplace, It's a silly topsy turvey way to have to go about things and just another good reason why the whole dumb review system should be dropped until they can introduce a system that actually works and is less prone to gaming and abuse. ^L^

Hi Toy I had a surge after converting to DD and even sold some lines that I had forgotten about. Then sometime in late May the relevant / best selling sorting started throwing up some really odd and ancient results. Roughly around the same time you refer to, my sales also took a dip. A bit further than the usual summer season slump. I'm pretty certain that the search wallahs have been doing some of their imprudent tinkering again in an effort to make sure that we can never predict the method behind their madness. I also had problem with my email sales alert that suddenly decided they should embed themselves in the spam folder without my permission, but I clocked onto that pretty quickly. Yesterday sales surged again which was a pleasant surprise because Friday has always been a very bad business day for me, and my store front still continues to display everything that is not or ever has been a relevant or a best seller, apart from the single freebie which has been there since year dot. Fingers crossed it's just a summer glitch and your sales take off again soon. ^L^

Your problem was the word 'slave' it has been deemed by the SL Legal Stasi that it is a purely adult term. Any description that includes the word slave will automatically be filtered as adult. ^L^

All of a sudden I didn't have any sales notifications in my email box. So I checked my order status and there were a bundle of sales that I had not be informed about. Back to email inbox and did a double check and found all my Sales notifications have suddenly started going into my spam folder. How odd! ^L^

There is nothing that saps my Second Life will to live more than in world shopping. It's a rare day when I allow my partner to bully and drag me in to visiting an in world store. Where we spend at least 10 minutes waiting for everything to rezz and then another ten minutes to try and work out what item the other is actually looking at and from what angle. Only to find that she or I wanders off to or flys to another end of the sim sized store or is camming into the store or room next door. And then there are the stores where the owner builder feels like reinventing the rules of retail display and make it well nigh impossible to find what you want because their futuristic concept of store design is in their eyes - cool. *shudders at memories of a particular giant minimalist dance animation store* Besides, I view all stores simply as 3d server space. A sim or a parcel to me is a slightly more elaborate web site with some added interaction advantages and a good few disadvantages. So for the most part I prefer to buy from the Marketplace where the product board always rezzes in a timely manner and the price is clearly displayed. Then I can quickly buy and head in world to play. The only exception is when I am looking to buy some landscaping materials or a house but even then my first port of call is the Marketplace and the better the pictures provided the more chance I will head on in to inspect. I gave up on in world search a year ago - I flatly refuse to use it because it is so distorted and borked. So in spite of all it's many faults the Marketplace is understandably the best way to find and buy SL goods ^L^

Would love to read that jira but Stasi Linden locked me out of the jira process a while back without any warning or explanation. Did any member of the commerce team make a comment on it or has it just been parked like other 99% ? ^L^

Has anyone from the commerce team ever explained why sorting a merchants store by Relevance produces eaxctly the same results as Best Selling. It's been that way right from the start but did I miss the customer communication that explained the reason or rational behind it? ^L^

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A few years back there was a report into SL resident nationalities. Can't recall where I saw it. At that time Europeans across the board (Including UK) accounted for the majority of residents almost 60% at that time. The largest single resident nationality was of course US . I doubt of the percentages have changed very much and if so there is sure to be a down turn on European spend. RL for the last few years I have been trading world-wide through online auctions. Europe was a steady market up to a year ago since then I have made about half a sale to Europe (from UK) but my US sales have held up and even grown. If RL trends are mirrored in SL then for sure there has been and will continue to be a significant slump. It's a complex picture though and some folks may actually trade off their night at the movies or the pub in favour of cheaper virtual world entertainment. ^L^