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    How Do I cancel a purchase or Order

    in Merchants

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    Midice Holfe wrote:

    Ok thanks  for  the  replies, 

    Innula, thats exactly what I will do  I think.... 

    it not a cost thing,  just I not wish to pay for twice, just being over cautious I guess- ( i still carry scares from being charged land fees, when had Nil land holding for a couple months, and not understand where me US $ were going)...

     

    Thanks again for  the swift responces.  and I will add coment on that  Jira

    enjoy your SL everyone *waves*

     

    Ah the old you forgot to tier down gotcha;)

    Mesh: Love, Hate, or Don't Care?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Pussycat Catnap wrote:

    Argus Collingwood wrote:

    Do not like venues and stores that have products buried within MESH displays..
    o.O
    I am not ready to use FS 24/7 and there are now places and stores I will not visit until I go FS all the way. [not to mention the clothes where the person wearing them does not use the alphas and I see boobies ]

    Welcome to modern SL. Use mesh or its no longer comprehensible.

    Time to upgrade past 2009. I can sympathize with the cost of upgrading hardware - but in viewers, we've had 3 years to move on, and its really time.

     

     

    Oh no my hardware works fine on V3 Fs etc etc I only wish that the silver screen [GOM'ed from On-Rez] version was on the V3 by LL. I would be using it now. It;s a vision/eyes/headache thing.

    Re: Marketing Opportunity

    in Merchants

    Posted

    Polenth Yue wrote:

    Looking at what's already tagged, very little has a 60s vibe. Though given that the Linden description of the 60s doesn't mention things people usually associate with 60s design (like minidresses and psychedelic colours), maybe the tagged stuff is what they wanted. Who knows.

    I've just tagged anything rainbow coloured.

    Rainbows and Paisley here;)

    LL Removing listings due to their own bug induced error

    in Merchants

    Posted

    Kampu Oyen wrote:

    Speaking of Catch 22, didn't the old guy say "No - It's better to live on your feet than to die on your knees!"?

    My preliminary efforts seem to suggest that the more pointedly you confront abuses by the LIndens, the less they'll actually try to mess with you.

    Or I could be wrong.

    We'll see.

     

    Or it could be the Quacking duck gets shot;)

    The SL9B Fail

    in Upcoming Events and Activities

    Posted

    Re-posting:

     

    This is sad. All the Birthday sims with awesome builds, live music and special events not happening? This is more than sad, this is LR/LL cloistering themselves in a Sterile Corporate Tower and further undermining any feeling of shared Community Spirit. It is becoming "Your World, Your Imagination,: Our Billing, Our Platform." sigh

    SL9B

    in General Discussion Forum

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    :( This is sad. All the Birthday sims with awesome builds, live music and special events not happening? This is more than sad, this is LR/LL cloistering themselves in a Sterile Corporate Tower and further undermining any feeling of shared Community Spirit. It is becoming "Your World, Your Imagination,: Our Billing, Our Platform." sigh

    Account hacking - why third party viewers are the problem

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Beowulf Silverfall wrote:

    @ TammyTgurl Umaga
    Not really get the anger myself to be honest. I just point out the one thing that I had noticed was different on tow accounts I have. The one that was hacked used to be my main account. It is of course not anymore.As to why they hacked me, I used to be clubowner an had my paypal as payment on there, maybe that was the reason they hacked me, considering they made off with nearly 700 US $, real money the first time.  As to the reason why they don't go for people with millions of lindens, well, since SL tracks randomly transactions over 100 US $, that would be difficult, cause it would be flagged. This is what someo

    @ all the other people assuming they know whats going on without the facts :
    I did not click on any phising link, I never even accept objects or notecards from people I do not know. I change my pasword about every month and make sure it's at least 10 digits ,numbers and letters. I've never given my password to anybody either, before some smartasses ask.

    Also for those that do wonder if it is my system and on what I work, well sorry to dissapoint, I'm using a mac, with the the Lion OS Version 10.7.3, updated and all nice. I have virus protection, firewall on the machine itself and another firewall on the router I use. I have no freeware except the SL viewer, all the software is nicely payed and licenced. I even use the build-in port scanner into mac just to make sure nothing fishy is going on. Cookies get deleted every time i close my internet browser and I don't accept third party cookies neither. My system is not set up to remember passwords either, before anyone claims so. I can nearly guarantee that there is no hack on my system, nor a keylogger, nor a trojan, nor a virus

    Also, some people shouldn't assume that others don't know what they're doing, or assume they go porn surfing, don't take your own habits for those of others.

    The only thing I can see that could be the cause of being hacked, are the client bridges, if this upsets people, well so be it, but the facts point that way. Ignore it if you want, but don't come crying later.

     

    Might want to check out this article about the recent Mac hacks. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17700824

     

    ETA http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5242

    LL Removing listings due to their own bug induced error

    in Merchants

    Posted

    Sassy Romano wrote:

    Unimpressed that LL are chosing to uphold product flagging where the listing is listed as "wrong image" caused by WEB-4587.

    LL this is YOUR induced error, it shouldn't come as a surprised but you're both responsible and accountable for this and the onus should be very firmly in your lap to fix it and not to remove the listing and shift the burden of fixing your screw ups onto the merchant!

     

    o.O sigh.

    No payment when customers buy multiple items across stores

    in Merchants

    Posted

    Darrius Gothly wrote:

    Argus Collingwood wrote:

    Altheria Bakerly wrote:

    If the items haven't been delivered why are they missing? These are fairy eggs in that particluar order I mentioned. Two of them and when I click on the listings they both show as not available. In the listing edit it shows as 0 quantity. Yep, I'm confused.

    Because this is a shopping cart system, things in carts that have not fully checked out are still in the cart and assigned to that order. I know it can be an inventory nightmare but that is the way it works until "abandoned carts" routines are run as part of a maintanence that empties them and prolly re-indexes the data. [just guessing because that is how I once ran an e-commerce stite.]

    The really annoying part of this "issue" is that the standard distribution of Spree (the base system they built the Marketplace on top of) comes with a standard Stale Carts sweeper enabled. They had to go disable it (or it might be a system config option but...).

    I still fail to see WHY they would turn it off .. and leave it off. Like others on here, I've had purchases show up with dates several months old. It makes sense in some small way to leave items for a day or two but really ... months? It totally administers the coup de grace to anyone that would like to run limited time specials or promotions of any sort where the price is reduced for a short period of time.

    Deadlines create motivation to purchase now. It's a very old and well used marketing technique. (Just ask Vince with his "... cuz you know we can't do this all day" spiel.) It's another example of a tool that a merchant might find useful or beneficial being systematically removed or never supplied.

    As crazy as some of his theories sound sometimes, there are other times when Josh makes a lot of sense. If I could come up with a sensible reason why choices like this are made ... it sure would ease my mind.

     

    /me nods at Darrius ... atm lots of folks trying to activate their items to go DD are not even aware that "one of /no copy" items are not supported by DD. All the Breedable folks will need lots of land to open their "farms" [a nod at Josh] until SLM supports their products.

     

    ETA: From Spree http://guides.spreecommerce.com/inventory.html stock levels will of course change over time, and there is no locking of requested inventory to orders until the very last stage of checkout. If stock checking is enabled and insufficient stock is available at checkout, the shortfall is reported to the user (there is no compulsory back-ordering).

    No payment when customers buy multiple items across stores

    in Merchants

    Posted

    Altheria Bakerly wrote:

    If the items haven't been delivered why are they missing? These are fairy eggs in that particluar order I mentioned. Two of them and when I click on the listings they both show as not available. In the listing edit it shows as 0 quantity. Yep, I'm confused.

    Because this is a shopping cart system, things in carts that have not fully checked out are still in the cart and assigned to that order. I know it can be an inventory nightmare but that is the way it works until "abandoned carts" routines are run as part of a maintanence that empties them and prolly re-indexes the data. [just guessing because that is how I once ran an e-commerce site.]

    copybot reviews removed...

    in Merchants

    Posted

    Chrissy Ambrose wrote:

    The Items are copies of my own products, and on buying them they had the creator as the seller not myself. There is no question the objects are mine, each prim has the same names as I used on the origonal. All textures are mine, I created them too. I dont give out copies of my textures , let alone give any item full perms.

    Same goes for several other creators who have been targetted by this seller, the products are all copies of their creations but now bearing the name of the copybot as the maker, the same name as the seller.

    We have collaborated to alert other creators to items of their design, and they have bought copies to compare and photograph with the origonals to file DMCA Claims.

     

     

    Shoes or Jewels? [curious here] and the names on the items are the same?

    Discontinued.

    in Merchants

    Posted

    Sassy Romano wrote:

    I would expect we all have.  One item I bought more recently was just several shades of tone off and very over exposed compared with the delivered product.

    The response I got was that it depended on my windlight settings.  Except that my windlight settings are the default and viewing it at default windlight/midday  was where it revealed that the picture was either exceedingly photoshopped or *their* windlight settings were so soft and light that it was a complete distortion.

    No apology, no offer of any compensation, nothing.  There's no way it could have been made to look like the picture.

    As a merchant, I take my pictures using default windlight and midday.  It might not be the most flattering but i'm making product shots, not artwork in that sense and i'm going to work with defaults, not some dreamy setting that nobody else uses.

    As a customer, the merchant I illustrate here has no more business of mine, that's the only option really, such is the amount of dysfunctional selling that goes on here.

    I am even more pedestrian and shoot at mid-day without any windlight.;) I do shoot high rez against a plain background I remove and the paste into a template I have that shows sides and the rear of the item. Most bad reviews I have are for non-delivery and I re-deliver in-world with an im asking if they got the item.[of course the majority of them never respond and do not know even how to change a review] The reviews of others items that I read that bug me most are for great items that have super pictures and the skirts are sculpts and of course will not flow/flex and the customers did not read the description and complain about it. Oh if only merchants got notified of reviews a lot of good merchant/customer relationships might be built. ;)

    Enhancements Gone Berserk

    in Merchants

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    Darien Caldwell wrote:

    Luna Bliss wrote:

    Dakota announced this in the Commerce group today.

    It would be nice if these kinds of changes were announced in advance so we wouldn't all scramble around and worry.

    So what is this group and why as a SLM merchant am I not in it?

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    EXISTING MARKETPLACE JIRAS ISSUE LOG

    in Merchants

    Posted

    Arwen Serpente wrote:

     
    Argus Collingwood wrote:

    Arwen Serpente wrote:

    Argus, the point is they are receiving the items, but the Merchants aren't getting paid.

    Actually no they never got the item, never paid, never contacted us about this type of fail.  No MB email, no Xaction, nothing.. In all my Cart order history I have only had 3 total Queued orders. but I am going to eat chocolate anyway;)

     

    Then our situations are different, Argus. In my case and many other Merchants, the product is delivered and paid for, but no funds come to the Merchant.

    Take a look at

    It's happening to a lot of people.

    I am only citing "Queued" in my post and yes I totally understand about "Being Delivered" and the payment boggles. It's a mess and needs to be fixed asap. [voted on that JIRA already:)]

     

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