Comments on: Pink Linden Wants YOU… in her mall.

By: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Second Life « Second Life Shrink

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Second Life « Second Life Shrink — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:53:54 +0000

[...] canvassing their opinion on various hypothetical developments, including setting up an official Linden-sponsored shopping mall. Again the pricing and commission structure would favour large, established businesses over their [...]

By: Turnip

Turnip — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:16:06 +0000

iPhone Apps. It all makes sense now.

By: Vasgez McMillan

Vasgez McMillan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:36:33 +0000

Waves , funny just got the survey, too.

lol LL is a lille bit late i think, the system i sell is able to do most of what they think ( want ) to do.

LL “Usage of the vending machine will allow the merchant to receive premium support for merchant activities, enable automatic listing on XStreet SL, and ensure that all items are deliveredâ€¦. guaranteed.”

LooK-BooK System allready out: Vending machine out delivers 100percent including Redeliver Funktion, Statistics – automatic listing on a own merchant website /beta) includig Crosseling with other system users;:)

The use is free of charge (1time small payment, req. basic or premium LB. Book System)

LL”Cross-promote your items ”

L.B.System: Cross promote working , Crosseling between spec. L.B.System users allready possible open release Dec.

LL”The program would provide exclusive use of branding systems, customized store systems (such as a custom URL/SLURL and web storefront), and automatic consideration for large scale promotions. Also included is a data dashboard to enable you to track purchases in real-time”

L.B. System – allready has a branding system store front – items listed in the system LooK-BooK gets shown optional on the vendors and optional on the website for each merchant own url own adress. Stats live sale tracking.

LL”Linden Lab has developed an Island in Second Life that enables merchants to create their own stores”

L.B. System: currently building a special sim including a running ! reward system.

so bottom line for me – funny to see so many similar conceps from LL and i have 90 percent running allready of that what they have only in concepts –

will see whats happen next.

Gretz V.McMillan
LooK-BooK Virtual Home Shopping System
LooK BooK LooK BooK Reward System

By: Ann Otoole

Ann Otoole — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:43:18 +0000

Considering LL owns the data pathways and the data storage and every single aspect of the service it is rather amusing to see they are so comfortable in their ways as to begin suggesting people need to pay them to guarantee delivery of products. I say we should allow them to put this protection scheme into place. It could be handily leveraged in the future to make some much needed changes.

By: Pink Linden Wants YOUâ€¦ in her mall. | Shopping Cart Disco | Portal site of Second Life and metaverse"MetaLog-meta log"

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:01:55 +0000

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By: Whispers Magic

Whispers Magic — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:31:45 +0000

I have yet in my 5 years of playing 2L to see anything LL dips their hands in…to be an improvement. This sounds like they just want a chance at competing agains the business end of 2L. So much for it being “Our” world that residents created!

By: Monolock

Monolock — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:37:51 +0000

“30% surcharge in their mall”
That’s just rediculous, for this money i could rent a whole sim. So these malls will end up as reseller/crap malls for people who try to make a random buck with dropping their buisness-in-a-box there.
All the prices for their services are just too damned high. And there is nothing mentioned about quality-control or content theft. Actually as they get more involved into inworld buisness they will look away even more to not hurt their revenues.

By: Shiryu Musashi

Shiryu Musashi — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:13:55 +0000

As most of what comes from the mind of some very unaware (to be nice) lindens, most of this is utter rubbish. Now linden labs wants to try and directly compete against residents?
Moreover it’s unfair competition, given that LL has access to plenty back-end tools that the residents don’t have.

Now it’s mall owners (concept 4) and scripters that sell vendor systems (concept 1).
Shall we expect Linden Labs to start selling clothes, or skins, or accessories, using 2048X2048 textures or complex 3D models (that residents cannot use)? Because the concept is exactly the same.

The other concepts are just absolutely stupid, and follow the trend of all the stupid ideas i’ve seen in 5 years. Designers and content creators that can afford spending more than the average in marketing and advertisement ALREADY have plenty ways to gain an edge whether from the system or from resident-run marketing outlets. Initiatives like concept 2 and 3 just increase the divide between veteran content creators and new ones, that would find it even more difficult to show their products while choked by the spam of others that can afford throwing more money into the system.

LL is behaving like the typical elephant in a china shop. In 5 years i’ve seen em break more than what they fixed, and i’m really starting to be disappointed.

By: Isadora Fiddlesticks

Isadora Fiddlesticks — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:40:00 +0000

I knew it! Somehow they will make a racket out of all the craziness.

By: Annyka Bekkers

Annyka Bekkers — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:39:28 +0000

I don’t mind something like concept 3. I’ve been hoping they’d introduce customized storefronts for xstreet since they bought it. Not too crazy about the other options. (and just how big is this infinite mall island gonna be anyway?)

It all looks a bit like overkill to me though. I just want them to improve the way Xstreet works. Make it easier to list, add Amazon type features to make it easier to find items, customized storefronts, sublistings, etc. No need to totally reinvent commerce in SL to make it better.