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Totally agree with you Med. What would be helpful is if the moderators could inform us of why threads are deleted. At least then we could avoid making the same "mistakes" or at the very least try and make sense of their moderation. At the moment it is all guesswork.

Medhue Simoni wrote: Well, I just noticed that my Woohoo! thread was removed from the Roundtable. Did we/I do something wrong? Is the merchant roundtable just for business talk? I thought it was a playful thread. None of it was derogatory. I'm still scratching my head.:smileysurprised: I was a bit critical of LL and the new rankings in that thread, and we were posting vid files that weren't really relevant , and Suella went on one of her cheese related tangents :smileyhappy:. I can see why they deleted it based on the recent level of moderation.

Get a free shape, free skin, free clothes, shove a paper bag on your head. Job done.

Maybe it's a male thing. Even in RL I want to get in the shop and get out ASAP. Oblivious to everything around me. Unlike my wife who seems to have a rule that involves her spending at least a minimum of 20 minutes in every shop she enters.

Ok so I guess a more relevant question to ask now is.... As a shopped do you always use the sub category filtering when looking at larger merchants stores? Or like me do you forget or overlook the feature or simply didn't realise it was there? Thanks.

Josh Susanto wrote: the more new items I add, the more demand there is for the old items if your products are good, more products are more presence dividing products between 2 accounts divides your presence and weakens brand recognition I tend to agree Josh. Brand recognition has been key for me over the years as my stuff has a distinctive style and look. I am not keen on splitting my items between 2 accounts. Yanni Hinterland wrote: As a shopper, I hate going to a persons market place store and seeing hundreds of items not related to what I am searching for. If I search for prefab and get a hit on your items I will then want to look at all your prefab listings all together. If when I get there I see I have to wade thru tons of other stuff ....... I just leave and look elsewhere. Of course that is just me. Not sure what most others preferences are. LL either needs to create a way merchants can categorize within their market place stores. that way we could see your items listed by category. but since that is not the case I would recommend you create a separate market place store. Thanks for posting Yanni. So as a shopper did you know that you could view sub-categories within someone's store on the left hand side of the screen? If so, do you use this feature regularly? I have to admit that I hardly ever use the sub-category filters feature. I rarely ever shop, but on the few occasions that I do, I want to get my shopping done ASAP so I can get on with other things. So even though I am aware of the feature I forget about it, and it often gets over-looked by me when shopping. I see a store with hundreds of items, I may look through a page or 2 and if I am not impressed I quickly move on. I will also admit that I had not taken the sub-category filtering into account whilst thinking about changing my SLM store over the last few days. The fact that people can easily filter out my commercial and residential prefabs from my store listings kind of makes up my mind for me, I will keep all my content on one account and will do some selective housekeeping on older and poorly selling items.

Ai Velde: Thank you Ai, It's always great to get feedback from customers, whether it be positive or negative. Allot of my business processes and the store set up in world have been developed and changed a few times over the years purely based on customer surveying and general feedback. I've never really had any feedback about my SLM set-up, basically because I have never bothered to ask, so it's really useful to hear the thoughts from someone who has actually searched through my items on SLM, and also very much appreciated that you took time out to write such a long post. :smileyhappy:

I've looked at some other Lithium based forums on the net and it would seem that we are not the only ones that are apposed to being ranked and rewarded like children. I have to wonder how much research LL actually did before adopting this system as the ranking of users has historically been apposed by other Lithium forum participants.

Pamela Galli wrote: If it's all good stuff that sells, I don't see a problem. I weeded out a lot of stuff before the switch to MP, and I think it helped overall sales but only because the stuff I deactivated was garbage. I have some stuff on there that is up to 4 years old and only sells occasionally. Maybe I just need to do some selective filtering out of crap.

Catwise Yoshikawa wrote: I sell lot of different things cause like to make almost everything in SL, and sometimes I feel customers could be lost in my Marketplace store, but if you have items that are in a specific category I guess they can just go to your store and on the left side click on the category they want and just look for your items on that category. Hmm yes that is true. I rarely shop myself so over look these things :smileyhappy:

Howdy, My bread and butter sales is prefabs. I have about 70 listed on SLM and sell a reasonable amount on there, but only a small percentage compared to what I sell in-world. Obviously allot of people like to tour a prefab in world before purchase. I want to sell more on SLM. I also have another 550 or so 'other items' on SLM, items that are not prefabs, such as landscaping stuff, furniture and wot not. So I am wondering, if having all these non prefab related items on SLM is detrimental to my sale of prefabs. If people click the "visit the store" link and they are looking for prefabs, then they need to wade through all this other stuff to find the prefabs. I don't have enough control over how my items are displayed in my SLM store and this bugs me. So I am considering removing all non prefab items to another SLM account and only selling prefabs via my Porky Av. This is allot of work though. On the other hand, all my non prefab items are designed to go with my prefabs and are generally built in a similar style, so maybe separating them will harm the sales of my non prefab products. I'm completely undecided on what would be the best course of action. Does anyone have any experience or practical feedback that would help me make up my mind? Do you sell different types of content on seperate accounts? If you are a customer looking for prefabs on SLM would you be put off by having to scroll through hundreds of items to find the prefabs? Thanks.

Domitan Redenblack wrote: Was editting stuff on my land, clicked top of waterfall and it disappeared. I did NOT select delete or hit backspace etc. the missing piece is not in Lost & Found nor in Trash. Help! Try re-loging and maybe a clearing of the cache. I've had a few prims disappear on me lately, turns out they were exactly where they should be but i just could not see them for some reason.

Haha. I used to have a great security device. It was K9 out of Doctor Who. He used to zoom around the welcome area keeping an eye out for Daleks, greeeting customers and randomly saying whatever stupid quotes I could think off. Didnt seem to reduce my sales at all. Is that the sort of thing you are on about? :smileywink:

TatianaDokuchic Varriale wrote: How about Pamela & Porky, is this pleasure mixed with business, so to speak? I would not say I get pleasure from it, given a choice I can think of allot more pleasurable activities I could be doing with my spare time. But I do get a sense of satisfaction from my achievements and my income. I do look at my in-world time as work though....it is a part time job and sometimes I have to force myself to log on and put in the hours in order to maintain and advance the business.

Rene Erlanger wrote: Good post Clever Yes, it's very worrrying trend indeed as it's driving base prices down and down. At this rate, within a year or so....you're be able to buy an A1 premium skin for around 100 L, even though it still takes the same 100+ Photoshop hours to create.......likewise with prefabs being sold at around 500 + L or so. The grid will lose out as less and less will want to spend tons of hours in creating quality items ...in order to earn a nickle! I think Mesh will change the playing field in a lot of markets in a very short amount of time. We are going to see a drastic improvement both in quality and prim count, and the best and more creative 3D modelers will be able to start driving prices back up again, simply because there will be less competition. I know allot of people think Mesh is overrated blah blah blah, but they are wrong. People are going to be producing work the likes of which has never been seen in SL before and that will equal big bucks for those with the ability to capatilise. I strongly believe that Mesh will breath new life into SL commerce.

I guess nowadays on average I spend about 20 hours per week on business on SL. Back in 2007 to 2009 when I worked full time here I would generally spend 80 to 100 hours per week working mainly on Custom sims for RL business.

To add to Nika's comments, JIRA's are a great tool for you to use to add your support to the SL community. Alerting LL to issues and bugs and adding comments to existing JIRAS can help improve the platform and the overall experience for everyone. Second Life is a work in progress and JIRAS are key to improving stability and highlighting new and existing issues.

Fornicola Butuzova wrote: Don't get me wrong, things are awesome, sales are booming, SLM is bringing customers in, all is well on that front, BUT... Your beefs are my beef. We are "beef brothers" if you will.; Nice post.

Rene Erlanger wrote: Providing that the TPV's are commissioned to build the Second Life Viewer from scratch and monitored (or work with) the LL Devs. :smileyhappy: V2 Sucks...let's be honest here! Yes, if this ever were to happen (which it won't) then we would have to sacrifice allot to create a more controlled platform. Bringing in the best TPV developers to create an optimal LL viewer would be essential I think to avoid a mass exodus of users. Of course this plan would also put a stop to tools such as Second Inventory and put a serious spanner in the works for all those merchants spreading out to third party grids. It would be complete chaos and there would be massive opposition. But hey, I am an optimist and I find it interesting to envisage a completely secure platform where we have the freedom to create without fear of content theft. Its is but a pipe dream though unfortunately. :smileyhappy:

Maybe try some different browsers, see if the "delete" link turns up. Failing that I cant think of anything else.

I deleted a few items earlier today. They were under the "unlisted" tab in my inventory. Once I deleted them from my MB I had to sync twice in order to get the "delete" button/link in the unlisted tab.

A friend of mine did this recently and was paranoid about offending people. So she decided to tell a little white lie in the event a de-friended person got back in touch. She told people her account had been hacked and that the hacker had cleared her friends list. This way no ones feelings got hurt...just blame it on some else :smileyhappy:

Ohneil wrote: Is it possible? Yes it is, In fact it is possible to bring down content theft by at least 98% I would say if LL did this, but at the same time people could no longer use third party viewers at all period, and SL would become closed source for Second Life. With weekly updates this would keep people who crack it constantly updating, and with people like me informing LL of any and all cracked clients out there through secure Jira, and other users their copybots would become useless really fast. This would be the ideal solution in my opinion, The LibSL dev team caused the copybot problem when they publically published the source code all those years ago. Linden Labs embracement of open source is the root cause of this problem. Lets go closed-source, ban TPV's, continually adapt the code to stop the exploits and aggressively police the grid to put a stop to IP infringement once and for all. Even if this is not 100% effective, it will be a hell of a lot more effective than the half arsed approach LL have thus far adopted.

There was a good thread going on the old forum before it closed. Not specifically related to store layout, but contains lots of good advice. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Commerce-Forums-General/New-to-retail-This-is-what-your-customers-hate/td-p/512637

I started to use it again a couple of weeks ago, still a noob @porkygorky