Sally Audebarn Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Haave you noticed a decline in your sales since yesterday (August 8, 2011) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nya Alchemi Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 No, but it may be because I send out notice of new item on Fridays. So maybe the early week sales is a bumped a bit from repeat customers on the group coming in for fresh items^^ . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medhue Simoni Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Well, something happened. Could have something to do with the craziness of the stock market and people's fears, but most likely, LL changed something. This is my biggest beef with LL. They don't tell us anything. Heck, they release viewers without release notes. What if I just released new products with no instructions, and did them whenever I felt like it? This is what LL does. In my opinion, LL should explain, in detail, any change they make to the system that could, in anyway, impact any merchants. No matter what that is. If they change even 1 tiny thing in the search, they should document this publically to us, not hide it away in wikis or whatever, where we will have no chance at all of finding it. They are definitely way too relaxed about changes they make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ry0ta Exonar Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Hmm, Thuesday's sales is most often less than Monday's and Monday's sales is definitely less than Sunday's. It's nothing new to me. :matte-motes-not-even: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicholasKulp Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 How could you already be noticing it this early in the day :matte-motes-shocked: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claireschen Hesten Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 it's only been 1 day!!! not long enough to determine if there has been a decline in sales my sales are really varied so one day i could have several paid sales another day i might have none Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Audebarn Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Most people are unable to log into the marketplace and it is because of this why I came to this conclusion. Give it a try and see if you can log in and then share your experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickey Vandeverre Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 You might take a glance at inworld search. Use both viewers. This would go back about a week...I could only glance briefly...wondering what the heck happened to all the inworld traffic...cringed, then turned it off. Not really in the mood for a drastic adjustment again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Brynner Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 I have seen a slight decrease since March or so but it's normal for the season. Now during European summer vacation i only have seen sales go up, specially those items supported by mesh regions such as mega primmed objects and such. In your case i recommend to do the same since you sell high quality living. Do mind that you need to keep your search criteria up-to-date frequently also. Specially since we have had many changes in search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arwen Serpente Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Lol, stupid me, I was logged into the Marketplace, so I thought "no problem here" - so I logged out to test if I could log back in and now I can't Yes, my sales were quite light yesterday, and it would appear that will continue today until people can actually get into the Market to shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toysoldier Thor Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 I have a very stable weekly Sale Volume for a long history - over a year. On a weekly basis my sales almost never deviates more than 10% - 15% (usually 5% or less). So when I see a week where my weekly sales volume drops 50%+ , something is wrong. Well for the past 1.5 weeks, this has been the case. It does occassionally happen for me. 3 weeks prior to Christmas and thru New years day my sales usually plumet. This is an understandable and explainable BAD period for my product line as Landscape Sim builders seem to take a rest or get distracted SL or RL. But when it happens outside it this slow period, then something is wrong. Specially when the drop is sudden. Something has happened in SLM / SL that is affecting my SLM/Inworld sales dramatically for the past week and a half. I hope this is not because of LL experimenting with DD deployments or some other secret SLM changes that are technically stopping my customers from getting to my store. BUT the fact that others are also noticing a dramatic noticable drop this past week tells me that the LL Commerce Team must be at play and impacting us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicholasKulp Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 You're right... I can't log in either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toysoldier Thor Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 seems this Grid Server upgrade is not an "Average Joe" low risk to rezzed assets or service type of upgrade. The fact that LL is mentioning in their GRID STATUS upgrade to save all builds is very scary ! I am sooooo royally ticked off that LL is executing a serious potentially sim disrupting / damaging upgrade and they only made a grid-wide warning to all residents a few hours before they start. Do they not think that some of us have RL jobs and there is no way we can get to the grid in time to save our builds??? Come on LL!!! Atleast give us 24 hours GRID-STATUS warning for changes of this magnitude. Wow - what a half baked immature company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea Malibu Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 We all do in the summer aka, the Summer Slump however, my sales dropped to near 0 over the weekend which is very unusual since weekends are good for me as people decorate their homes on the weekends generally. People are outside and doing other things and as such, Internet Sales across the board are down in the summer which is normal but yes, there has been a sudden drop to near 0. My sales have been better then other summers but I think in large part that's due to some aggressive marketing and a new full sim store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alisha Matova Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 The grid status message means save builds you are currently working on. Not rezzed out builds. As there is small chance all your changes won't be saved in the last sim state before your sim is rolled. At least that is what I think it means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefertiti Nefarious Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Sally Audebarn wrote: Haave you noticed a decline in your sales since yesterday (August 8, 2011) ? Nope. My sales tripled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeliefste Oh Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 My sales were average. In general I sell about 80% on the Marketplace and 20% in world. Yesterday it was about 60% on Marketplace and 40% in world. But those days happens now and then. Sometimes there are big shoppers that buy about half of the available merchandise in the store, those customers have influence on the percentage of sales coming from the main store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Susanto Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 "Summer Slump" should correlate in some way to places where Summer is warm. I don't know what proportion of sales are from other places, but the SLM fee structure probably discourages US buyers from purchasing my items in the first place, so it sort of makes some sense that declines in sales due to warm weather wouldn't affect me as much, and, indeed, they seem not to. I'm also not sure how many SL users are Chinese, or whether they would be as supersitious as other Chinese, but Lunar August is not a good month for them to make big decisions or begin or end processes, and I know that this has some affects on people doing business with Chinese, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonGklugelstein Alter Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Nefertiti Nefarious wrote: Nope. My sales tripled. You sold 30L worth of product instead of 10L worth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medhue Simoni Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Well, it seems to me that inworld search changed again. All of a sudden, I'm some 50 places back from where I was. Top this with all the marketplace problems, and this explains my sudden drop in sales. This is really getting to the point of insanity. I think I'll just stop banging my head against LL's brick wall, lol. Not much any1 can do. LL will just keep screwing around until they wipe us all out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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