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    Marketplace Ideas and Suggestions

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    i would like to see the MP team do something about the scammer stores that are again popping up every Friday and stay online til lindens get back to work on Monday...repeated AR's about it are doing nothing, no one is monitoring this on weekends at all...they were being removed quite fast for about a month now its like they ignore the Ar's about them again ....this weekend alone this one store has posted over 400 fake items using other creators images...the items inside are not what is showing in the image...people are not trusting to shop on the MP because of these twits...whatever light slap on the wrist ya all doing is not working, please come up with a solution to get these off MP fast as flagging and abuse reports are failing miserably ...the fraud is just sickening anymore on there

     

    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

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    1 minute ago, Frankie Antonioni said:

    If that is the case, then LL should lower premium, or have minor premium. A lot of people can't pay for premium. I know a guy that lives in Venezuela, and is basic. No payment on file. He is a scriptor. He is not on much, and he can't afford premium. I don't think he has a store.

    if he had a business in rl he would be paying for his overhead.... if not his store would be shut down...its how a business works

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    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

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    On 5/30/2019 at 8:03 PM, Selene Gregoire said:

    What makes you say basics don't cover the costs of doing business in SL? Got anything to back that statement up with? 

    I've owned and operated businesses in RL so I do know what it takes to run one and keep the doors open. I've also had a business in SL before and no one begrudged me being basic. I have to pay the same fees to LL for MP as premiums do, the same fees if I were to cash out, etc. And, unlike others, I do plan to have an inworld store again so I would be paying for the land even if it's indirectly. In the end LL still gets their cuts.

    So what it boils down to for you is if someone is of low or fixed income they shouldn't be allowed to have an SL. That may not be what you are thinking but that is the end result. You know what that is called? Discrimination. Which is illegal in the US.

    in rl u pay rent lights insurance business license fees ect ect...all overhead premium should be looked at the same way in again MY opinion...no one begrudges u anything im sure.....the world wants to many handouts these days ....again my opinion

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    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

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    On 5/30/2019 at 8:27 PM, River Abonwood said:

    @Sweet Valentine I disagree!  I co-own a club, and I can assure you that I spend a ton of money buying things to improve and keep my place going.  Not to mention, paying the tier for the sim that we are on (because half of it is residential)!  To say that "free folk" don't add anything to SL is just crazy talk.  And guess what - we don't even make money.  We break even.  That's all we have ever asked of our place.

    again...IF you make a profit and cash out of SL then you should pay premium ..you can disagree but  this is my opinion... yours doesnt change mine

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    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

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    On 5/30/2019 at 9:22 PM, ILIKEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPIEPI said:

     I have a Business and see no need for a prem account its a waste of money for land I will never use, 1200 Linden a month it's pointless to me when I upload 50k a month or more and I prefer the free membership because I don't get useless stuff that clog my inventory when I have my own sim

    if u cash out money  or make enough to buy a sim ...spend tons on stuff in SL then its my opinion  that  you be premium...that simple

     

    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

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    22 hours ago, Adam Spark said:

    @Sweet ValentineWhat about those who buy linden dollars on a regular basis and work their tails off doing jobs in Second Life (providing a service that contributes to the community is as valuable as money if not more so) for the lindens that they in turn spend and give to those who do business?

    Yes, there are freeloaders in Second Life. Not all basic account users are among them.

    Without basic accounts, business owners wouldn't have an audience worth talking about. I'm tired of the notion that we don't have the right to as much of the basic experience as premium members. We pay for the service too, with our time, our talents, and yes our hard earned money.

    again i said anyone making a profit ...anyone cashing out of sl should be paying a premium fee ...that is all the rest is fine

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    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

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    44 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    Yes I know I've asked this before but I'm going to keep asking until I get an answer. What have I (or any basic account) ever done to anyone that I deserve to be punished and ostracized? Is everyone afraid I'm going to be that competitive? I'm not. All I want is to be able to pull in enough to cover my expenses. I'm not even looking to make any kind of profit. Just to be able to stay in SL and be able to pay for a place to live and work. Is that really too much to ask?

    if you are making money to buy things, pay rent shop for fun things then yes i think anyone making a profit in Sl should be premium its not fair that free folks to make money and do nothing to cover the costs of having a business there...and im not taking about shopping for clothes or home decorating things that is my opinion...its how a real life business works also

    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

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    2 hours ago, Sasy Scarborough said:

    I think that the idea of an added premium is a good one, with a twist that will either have me beaten in the square or somewhat agreed with...

    Premium lite  3.00 usd monthly

    50 groups nothing else added

    Here is the killer part

    You must have a premium account to sell on marketplace - lite or higher

    This would decrease theft, overloading of gacha reselling that is illegal copies of content, stop fake full perms accounts selling empty boxes claiming to be well known products. It would also clean out old content with no active sellers. Giving a few months notice for people to get on board. No longer would creators have to watch people getting cash grabs off of their work unable to flag or dmca. It would mean they have to sign up with rl info like the rest of us.

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    As mentioned earlier land groups to add people to just get access if able to add by notecard to land settings, could also be an option with always allowed, just easier to add, then a new land option of can always rez, again removing the ability of a group for designers in an event.

    Removing people from groups is slow and tedious, but if a pay group you are actually opening yourself up to abuse if you do, so some are loathe to try, thus meaning free to join groups are the groups that will get dropped, costing those businesses in the long run, and their reaction may be to start charging to compete, thus more group hogging. 

     

     

    i absolutely agree anyone who has a business and makes money in SL should have to be premium

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    1 minute ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    I honestly am not sure if you wouldn't get the 50Ls again. Just as I am not sure if I ever did get what was my premium back if I would get the 500Ls I used to get on it. I think I remember reading somewhere that you do but I'm probably wrong. Not really up to chasing that down today.

    you get 300L a week now if you cancel and then redo premium its at the new rate not old

    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

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    23 minutes ago, Grumpity Linden said:

    We are working on the Events feature (https://events.secondlife.com/), not actually making changes to resident-run shopping or other events inworld :) - Although hopefully the improvements to the feature will improve the running and publicizing of said events. 

    how about fixing this one https://gyazo.com/3688c8c315c68e97f8fdb8e81a58ca47...i have only been asking you to fix it about 6 or 8 months now ...there is much more events posted than 25 in the next 24 hours...

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    4 hours ago, Phoebe Avro said:

    Well I am basic and I have rented a full region for about 8 years not to mention the seasonal regions I rent from September to January, there should be a mechanism where renters of full regions get all the perks I have paid $10,000's in rental over the years, my store funds the region and our 11 year old club.

    Why did LL give extra groups to basic account only to now take them away? I know why I am sure you can work it out.

     

    then your not who i was talking about your renting and putting money into the SL economy again please reread

    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

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    4 hours ago, Marie Sims said:

    Free? I pay my premium per year, private region fee each month and LindeX fee, Cachout fee, Marketplace fee, events fee…  And what do I have for it? Just a platform ? 

    then u were not the person i was referring to.... please reread....im talking non premiums who just sell and do nothing to support the economy of SL(there are many who do this) if you make money in SL its should be part of your overhead to pay premium as with any business its part of your overhead people want it all for free ...this is my opinion ...and land fees are going down it balances out ...they are not done yet restructuring and this was not thrown on us it was discussed at some town halls and office hour meetings a few times in the past year or so

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    1 minute ago, sourapplepie said:

    Although I in theory disagree with you... if this was the case there should then be a specific "creators premium" at a lower price as many creators use SL primarily for business and have no want or need for the extra things that come with such a high price.

    in any real life business you have overhead costs.,rent, business licenses, insurance, advertising fees, ect ect..its not rocket science LL is a business but everyone wants it for free...that's how our world is these days give it all to me and i dont wanna pay attitudes

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    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

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    maybe stop the automatic connecting people to chat when a message in a group is sent ..only the chat portion...some groups that has to open up 5000 or more messages to folks logged in ,in a single group ...make chat in groups something u have to open not auto connect it...huge save on servers right there...please think outside the box Lindens...i don't like that your taking things away from the non premiums.. make it that only new members get lower groups not the ones that already have them, grandfather it cus ur pissin alotta folks off right now with this and many will leave..you want to retain what u have not lose them...other grids have unlimited groups...im fine on the price increases cus well i haven't seen a premium increase in the 15 years i been a user and i rather see land tiers fall than increase....my pet peeve has always been the folks that make money in SL and DO not have premium.. that should be a requirement.. if you are a business and profit at all in SL  you should have to be premium...SUPPORT this opportunity LL gives us

    The new Marketplace Features coming - Merchant Survey Requirement

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    3 hours ago, Elvina Ewing said:

    no it's not. Even not looking outside of SL at all, just within SL's own environment, - if LL kept steadily increasing MP commissions with 1% each year starting many years ago, we'd just call it inflation and nobody would say a word of complaint. When they increase commissions from 5% to 30% (or even 25%) overnight, you should expect major shock waves. What happens when RL economy inflation is 30%, is that considered healthy?

    but they gonna lower land prices to balance out so it all works out...we haven't had any increases in sales commissions in the 12 years i been selling..i consider that being dang lucky when everywhere else has increased...also the cash out fees were 1 dollar for 10 plus years, lindens took a loss on every cashout on that fee... covering it from other avenues so we paid only 1 buck...its time things increased/change to keep SL thriving ...it will just make us work a bit harder...no one is saying the increase will be 30% i highly doubt that would ever happen especially overnight...i haven't seen any price placed on it ...if so please show me so i can read where it says they will have 30%...speculating on anything LL does is a waste of energy....everyone thought sansar would kill SL also but alas we are still here alive and well 5% is small beans ...try etsy see what they charge to list or sell on ebay or turbosquid<much higher commissions than SL) and then we know what we can be grateful for ...we are all lucky that they even allow us to monetize what we do here, in my opinion

     

    my list i would like..... 1..fix the broken bulk editing  category doesn't stay when using quick fill

                                            2..fix my broken blank folders when uploading to the website

                                           3.. better tools to flag and remove scam stores...i don't mean copybot i mean scam stores selling everyone else's full perm items against license and empty box scams the ones that change the names of an empty prim to make it spoof the original creators items ....

                                          4.. NO more demos in search

                                           5..additional store fronts

                                          6.. ability to block customers or other stores i want to filter out by use of keyword or creators name so i dont see there stuff and have it savable

                                          7..a better category  organization...for example all textures need to be in building creator tools/texture category not spread out some in clothes some in holidays ect

                                           8.... more categories for like GACHA

                                          

                                     

     

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    The new Marketplace Features coming - Merchant Survey Requirement

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    3 minutes ago, Blueberryxx said:

    I don't have any insider info, I haven't spoken to any Linden. Disclaimers first. 

    I read the forum and saw some numbers thrown around like 25%-30%. I am going to elaborate before it catches wildfire. 

    I highly doubt you will ever see Linden Lab come out and say okay now you go from 5% to 25% because we said so. Linden Lab has always been very restrained in how they do their changes. Notice how they just reduced the land fees without increasing the fees with it at the same time? It's because (I am assuming) they want to see what exactly needs to change and from what I am seeing they would rather slowly decrease on land to find a middle point where creators won't pay too much but neither will the customers. 

    So from what I have seen so far I expect there to be a raise of 2.5% and they might add another 2.5% if that didn't cover. But from what we have seen over the years, I do not foresee anything in the lines of a sudden crazy change. Linden Lab may have been slow at times, but they are far far smarter than everybody is giving them credit for. I believe @Grumpity Linden when they say they see as partners. We are partners. We are the most significant part of SL economy when utilized properly.

    Again, these are my personal expectations, predictions. No claim has been made by any Lindens to me. 

    i agree.... this is why they hesitate to discuss things even at the meetings cus it gets taken away as gospel that that is whats gonna happen...when in reality it was a discussion only not set in stone ...throwing ideas around at what might work....they definitely have no desire to rock the boat to much ....but change has to come they know it and we all have to understand it needs to happen to keep SL relevant and thriving in the future

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    The new Marketplace Features coming - Merchant Survey Requirement

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    think alotta folks are not understanding there is going to be and its already starting a trade off from a land based cost to a merchant based cost ....u will be paying less for land and paying more for selling stuff...right now its cheap to sell and cost a ton to much to live on land...lowering land costs is a positive to bring folks into sl that will buy land settle down and become ur new customers. and stay awhile...increasing fees somewhat its not a bad thing.... i believe it will balance out...unless you an MP only person ...that u will just have to expect as in any RL business you have overheads to pay and those costs will increase always ....we have been very lucky in SL to have the opportunity to even be able to make money...im looking forward to the positive changes coming our way

    PETITION - LINDEN LAB - MAKE LAND TIER CHEAPER

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    I support this 100% as well...would love to see more price points in the tier scale as well...allow anyone non premiums to purchase land would be a good option also giving premium members a discounted price on land....I gave up my sim a few years back because of falling sales and search issues and just overall crappy customer service from Lindens.....I would rather support fellow residents by renting from them and supporting the community that way...i still rent but i also have just recently selected a low level tier to buy a bit of land again...I will never even consider paying 300 a month for a sim ever again....if they did lower it or gave a discount for premium I may consider it......this tier question was asked at the recent interview with Pete and Oz linden and they states no plans to lower the Sl tier prices...they are using the money made to fund the New SL 2.0 and other linden lab projects...it is there cash cow...But its always worth a try and Ebbe seems to really listen ....so there is hope:matte-motes-grin:

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