[Open thoughts to Linden Lab about the real commodity of Second Life]

I can see you are a master of the red herring.  Well played.  

[Open thoughts to Linden Lab about the real commodity of Second Life]

Actually they did a very very large thing to market the marketplace.  When you go to your dashboard on the SL site you have a menu for shopping that takes you directly to the Linden Lab branded marketplace.  That is massive in and of itself.  

On land while I agree with you on the broad idea of Linden Labs not devaluing land with the marketplace I disagree that estate owners offer no value.  If your estate owner offered you no value perhaps you were with the wrong estate owner.  Not all of them simply offer you a blank parcel in exchange for some lindens and "I will see you when the rent is due again" mentality.  Several estate owners have various levels of co-branding and advertising sharing resources that can benefit merchants.  If you are not utilizing an entire sim (If you are  if you can afford it it is obviously financially more advisable to buy direct from Linden Labs) then you are renting a parcel of a various size which means you will have neighbors.  This is where estate owners and the quality of the estate adds or subtracts value from your enterprise.  Does the estate have policies on how many stores,  how much resources each store can take based on the land they have and so on.  If you and your competitor are selling similar products of similar quality and prices but your competitor's store is on mainland and your customers cannot walk while your store is with an estate that does frequent performance testing and trapping of sources of lag with a 24/7 management staff there to assist you with any issue about your land,  then your customers will see the difference and they will tell their friends.  

So the basic idea here is if you want (or need,  I will never buy a building I cannot walk through first) land for your store then rushing to the absolute lowest price per square meter is not really the best choice,  specifically for a business.  Find out what the estate you will be renting from can do for your business.  I big hint,  if you cannot reach management when you have a question about their land as a prospective renter,  then you will have similar issues reaching them when you are already a customer of theirs.  Find out if they do performance testing.  Find out what they consider tolerable Time Dilation and Sim and Physical FPS levels.  Find out how often they check their sims manually for lag (meaning someone actually teleports to that sim and tests it).  Find out what avenues they have that you can use to leverage your business in the greater Second Life community.  Land is not just land with the only difference being the price.   

[Using iFrame to show marketplace on your site]

Hi everyone.  I am developing a web page for a large market place merchant and they want a section on their site to be able to show their store on the market place.  The biggest problem is in doing this with their site design the marketplace shown in the content area has a horizontal scroll too it making the page look really odd.  This is because LL puts the side bars on the page (the green fading to white).  If anyone knows a way to fit this page to a screen (about 980 px wide) without the horizontal scroll using iFrame or any other method I would greatly appreciate it.  If the method does not exist,  LL perhaps you can setup a system for people to swip their stores viewable on their page more easily.  

 

Thanks