[The Haunted Halloween season is just around the corner — how will you celebrate?]

Don't miss The Nightmare Hunt.

From September 30th to October 15th, one of the most scary hunts in second life begins, with 13 high quality stores from Second Life and with Halloween theme, you must find hidden gifts that all has free for you in their stores.

You have to begin in the first store, The Nightmare Store. Find the bloody eye object for 0L$, in contents you can find your gift and the landmark to the next store.

[Gifting Updates Released Today!]

thanx Brooke!! in time for Valentine's Day ^^

[Marketplace User Group: 2/3 9am PST]

Loving Clarity wrote:

 

I would like a progress report on features that have been discussed/promised but not instituted.  (others please feel free to add to the list)

• A RP/Gorean category added to MP as it's a very large community and there are certain items that don't properly fit into other categories like non-weapon accessories (gauntlets, belts, bracelets, armor, leg warmers, etc)  Ones that tend to be very gorean specific in style and thus get tucked away in other categories.
• The ability to cross list items in up to 3 categories.  (those selling holiday items that might work for other things could list these in more than one section.  ie.  a Valentines cake could be listed in the holiday section, decorations, and under food type items as well.
• The ability to "design" our store page (organizing the products into some sort of order so someone can feature certain items because they are recent or relevant to the nearest holiday, etc.
• The ability to have two "stores" for those that carry more than one brand
• The ability to run a search within a merchant's store so if they carry a dress you like in green, you can click on their store and punch in "blue dress" and see what that merchant carries by way of blue dresses, etc.
• bulk uploads of pictures.  It takes me about 2 minutes to upload a picture.  I don't know why MP is so slow for me.  other sites work just fine.  I can upload about 20 pictures to wordpress in the time it takes me to get two onto MP.
• I'd love to see a default picture option for items that are identical except for color.  I tend to post one image of the color and then one of the item from several angles.  So one image is usually the same for all 5-10 colors an item comes in... but I still have to upload that picture for each and every one of them.  Could we not have some kind of "gallery" to store our pictures in so we could just add them from our databank instead of having to upload them over and over?
• Updating an item resets it's "ranking".  Making it drop to the bottom of whatever arbitrary sales bracket LL has placed it into.
• And on a side note, WHY are past sales even part of the algorithm for RELEVANCE searches?  When I search for RELEVANT items, I don't care how many they sell.  It doesn't matter to me if it's the most popular item on MP I don't care what it's rated.  I just want something that pertains to my search.  And is a CLOSE MATCH to what I'm seeking.  If I wanted to know what sold best and had the best rating, I'd search by those two criteria.  Relevance should scan the items title (returning items with the exact match in title first) then search keywords (returning items who's title, keywords have the best match behind the title results) then it should return items with best match is in title, keywords, features.  Then any other results that have some arbitray combination of words that MP finds relevant.  If I search Red House, I don't want to see a pair of red freebie shoes that sells 100 a day just because it has Red in the title and is popular.
• Still waiting for word on if/when the new items defaulting to the very last page will be fixed.  That's just upsurd as most items that are newer are BETTER than our older creations but who's going to see them on the last page?  And I presume this is because they have NO sales history at all as opposed to our older items that have most likely at least sold once.
• And I know some have been patiently awaiting news on the promised "coupons feature" I could care less if search actually worked properly.  But some seem to really fancy the idea.
• Personally, after spending weeks fixing my listings after migration, studying the rankings for about a month trying to figure out why my sales shifted so drastically, and what one would have to do to get their items to a location to be seen (especially considering the horrid search algorithm that still might not return it as relevant if a totally unrelated item sells more than you) I've given up on MP.  I don't add any new product even though only about 1/10 of what I sell is on there.  And this latest nightmare has just discouraged me even more.  Had I added ALL my inventory after sorting  out the migration, I would now have TONS of product to try to fix after this poorly planned filtering system.
• And one last question... why does it seem LL always rolls out these issues right before holidays?  First migration was right before halloween.  Then the stupid enhancements glitch happened right before xmas (and let's not forget the MASSIVE failed deliveries as we neared xmas).  Now its this and right before valentines day.  Especially bad as your filter is probably flagging keywords people used to promote the amorous holiday.
• Oh!  and some sort of temporary fix (be it a warning that multiple items in carts fail more often or disabling carts until the changeover) to aid with delivery issues until the (dreaded) new boxless system is in effect.  I will voice a general plea to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE test, retest, test again, dry run (with a backup and immediately reversible default back to boxes), test again, and test a final time before pushing out a new buggy "feature" (yes I use the term loosely) on us.  And for the love of god PLEASE fix the asset server/disappearing inventory issue before relying on this buggy system to hold our MP wellbeing in its hands.

I won't go this time to this office hour, or whatever is called, cause is 6pm in My country and still working ^^', but wanted to vote for everything she said here

[Marketplace User Group: 2/3 9am PST]

Merchant group in sl chat group better than twiter ;-)

[Maturity Changes in the Marketplace]

wow, news from Brooke Linden about maturity changes, you can read it now here: Listing Guidelines.
thanx for all the info ^^

Guess I still have some questions...so sex beds are now in mature, but not adult. And alcohol is also mature??? really? so all champagne valentine things must be mature??? don't get it ^^'

[Viewer 2.2 Available Today!]

Nice features, maybe I'll give a try to this new viwer 2. But if you want me to use it daily, add temporal uploads for textures and animations ;-)

[Making Strides to Improve our Customer Support Services]

I tried to send survey but can't, I got this error: "Support satisfaction explanation: You can't use more than 255 characters."

I delete every box to explain what happend and realize was 255 for everything? that is 3 lines, and have 3 or 4 boxes to explain different problems...Nice, I did my best anyway