Jimena Poggel

Nothing good will come from having listing fees. It will just make it harder for people to start their shops. Before the marketplace i wouldn't have imagined owning a shop in sl, now i have different shops on 3 alts, my sales are increasing on all of them, and will probably have a shop on every alt (perhaps even on this one), and when i'm done on those and they can sustain themselves, i'll make more alts just to create new shops on them. Because i love building. I dont earn a lot, not by a longshot, but I can pay rent for my shops and magic boxes. I even afforded to give birthday presents this year in SL. I even bought an expensive vendor system, mirror scripts, puppeteer for making my builds, and i can afford to buy an expensive sculpty making tool too. I can even tip at events. Guess what, I never bought a linden dollar in my life, i never input rl money into second life, only my time. I can't even cash out cause i'm in Southamerica. If the marketplace had a listing fee i wouldnt have made it, no way. Pffff between uploading textures and playing freeplay zyngo (entire nights!!) to get lindens i wouldn't have afforded the learning curve it takes to create stuff on SL and sell it. All my initial capital to start building towards a stable inworld platform would have vaporized in marketplace listing fees because stuff doesn't start selling the very moment you list it, those first weeks would have killed me. Sure, my stuff sells now, but not in the beginning. How lucky we are then, that there are no listing fees, that the little guy that can't buy linden dollars can start a shop, make a profit and inject that profit and creativity back into the Linden economy. Besides, if all items on the marketplace are supposed to "pay" for being there, it will kill creativity. Everybody will exclusively make stuff that is guaranteed to sell... so that it can stay on the mp, and thus we will have only baggy pants, muscle guy skins, sexy stripper outfits and goth wedding dresses on the market place... not much else... oh and breedable pets and sex beds. And... not much else.