[Things to Help Commerce]

Sounds a lot like the direct-message feature mentioned in this article...

Direct Messaging comes to my.secondlife.com

[Looking for a Pre-fab store]

For what it's worth, I purchased my store from MVC and have been satisfied with it. 

MVC

[Scriptmemory and Inventory list update]

For #2, you may want to use llGetInventoryType to check for the existence of an item which will simply return a -1 instead of showing an error. Instead of llSleep you might want to perhaps put this within a timer, or within a change() event that checks for the CHANGED_INVENTORY flag.

llGetInventoryType

change()

[Attention All Shopper, how do YOU search?Marketplace, search,shopping]

I mostly use the in-world Search tab on the rare occasion that I go shopping for something, the only time I really use Marketplace is if I want to find/purchase something while my avatar is attending a class or seminar where it's not practical to teleport to the in-world store. It may sound odd but as far as search terms used, I tend to think like a shop owner (i.e. "if I were selling bubble textures what keywords would I be targetting?") and then search on a variant of whatever comes to mind.  I guess the reason is because I run a shop of my own selling business marketing gadgets. :matte-motes-grin:

[Top SLM searched/viewed/sold numbers]

Is this Excel something.iqy thing you found on a wiki somewhere? If not, it should be! :smileyhappy:

[Top SLM searched/viewed/sold numbers]

Mine includes a price range outside of yours, so 0 (0) L$ or in other words... free.

Product	Searches	Views	Sales	Price	Category
1	46	4	1	0	Gadgets
2	17	7	1	0	Business
3	48	3	1	1	Gadgets
4	1	47	1	8	Business
5	2	23	1	2	Business

 

 

[Took Advise on Merchant's ROUND ROOM STORE DESIGN]

I like the idea of a round room store design, but am curious about having several floors for visitors to explore. Historically when I've observed avatar traffic (using gadgets that I also sell, shameless plug) I've found that a very limited number will go up/down ramps or teleport to other floors. Perhaps it's a signage issue where they need incentive to check out the other areas.

[Building Practice Areas]

Little Blue and Fermi are good, as is the Dreams sim too. All three are regularly moderated both for general Q&A and to deal with griefers.

[So... how do I list the threads with recent replies first?]

While browsing each forum individually, at the top there is a "Board Options" of which you can choose to "Sort by Last Post Date" which looks like it also takes the timestamp into account so it's reverse chronological based on the reply date/time.