item failed with the error: Second Life communications timeout why?

[Kraven Titanium]

 item failed with the error: Second Life communications timeout in the Marketplace why is there so many stores out there that this hapens to it makes the Marketplace not worth going to i have tryed 50 times in 1 day n nuthing why ?

[Holger Gilruth]

That will be answered only from Lindenlab, but here is a user to user forum so nobody can answer you WHY something happen.

The Jira is full of complaints and problems with the new marketplace

[Rolig Loon]

Marketplace itself has been slow recently, but it usually won't time out completely.  You may have a slow Internet connection as well.  If you're on wireless, I suggest getting off of it now.  Then check your Statistics Bar (CTRL - Shift - 1) to see what your value of Ping Sim is.  For smooth operation, it should be less than 150ms --- the lower, the better.  If it's much higher, it's taking your computer too long to get data to SL's servers  Take a look at Nalates's blog here to see what you can do about it >>> http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/

[Lindal Kidd]

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Kraven Titanium wrote:

 ...it makes the Marketplace not worth going to...

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DING DING DING!  We have a WINNER!

The Marketplace is chock full of bugs, both old and new.  If at all possible, use an in world store to make your purchases.

[PeterCanessa Oh]

What Lindal said: shop in-world.

In-world shopping problems:

• Teleport problems if your broadband is weak
• Search doesn't work

Marketplace shopping problems:

• Item availability is unreliable
• Items listings are mixed up
• Slow-loading pages
• Search doesn't work
• Shopping cart doesn't work
• Delivery failures
• Payment failures

In other words - it can be hard to find what you're looking for in-world.  On the market place it's hard for the merchants to list things, it's hard to find anything that is there, you don't know if what you're looking at is what you'll get, if you get anything at all and if you do the merchant might not get paid.  And it's in static 2d, in this interactive 3d world.

I only use the marketplace to 'shop' for free things so I don't care when it all goes wrong.