Petition Againts Bergman's Bargains

Over the PREVIOUS (lmfao) weeks there has been a series of events happening. One of thoose events is a hazzard for all scripters and developers. Jamie Bergman has been selling other people's work and freebies. She has tried hard to scam us but she has failed, many people have stepped up.

This is a petition to make Bergman's Bargains close down and stop the selling of freebies.

All you have to do is post in a reply the word signed

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Wow, you can see into the future! Sad to hear that bad things will be happening in the next few weeks.

Can I put potentiol in my gas tank?

Ummm.... if you're going to accuse someone of something, you may want to ... um... offer proof?

EDIT: Back story added to original post. TYVM!

How's this?

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Really do approve of this. Never really looked @ freeb selling with the "door to door" technique, but people starting a store with it and asking rediculous prizes clearly opened my eyes that there's something just wrong for this to happen. with the system in which the freebies are distributed aswell as some people's minds scamming other fellow residents for really insane ammounts.

as for bergmans store.. this just set a big example of how things can go from bad to worse.

for proof check sle for the bergmans freeb box that Entrophy Creations put together. All freebies that show up in her store just like that or with scripts out of other freebies/leaked items.

Kind regards,
Kyran Nyak
Scripter, builder and shared CEO of Spacemonkeys

missed that post. I'll respond there.

Also, she spread rumorus about my company on her blog saying I tried to destory her buisness when I was telling the public about her freebie selling.

Have a look on sleconomy.blogspot.com (its her blog) and check the virtua tech bit.

Whole heartedly agree

Jamie - Remove all "for sale" goods that are not yours to sell OR
Close down OR
Be closed down

The public oppinion is against your brand of capitalism

Not capitalism. Parasitism.

lol...Yeh

Yeah, i saw the blog from the other post.

I was considering staying out of this issue, until I read Jamie calling freebie makers "communists". As a person actively supporting my freebie vending kits, I say not only have I lost respect for Jamie, but also that Jamie is wrong -

- I'm not communist. I sneak ads into the freebie kits, thereby promoting my non-free items that I sell.

EDIT: I also saw these ASIAN HOTTIES in Jamie's blog. I'm hoping that there are no hard feelings between these ASIAN HOTTIES and myself, and that I can provide my contact info via private message.

(okay, so I'm kidding ... okay, half kidding... okay, I'm not kidding... nono, I'm kidding. Gah, they are hotties, aren't they?)

LMAO...Don't worry..They're are plenty of asian hotties.

I am outraged by this thread!!!! Besmirching the name of a capitalist!

signed

Yeah, I know... but there's a difference between knowing that, and seeing ... and ...

this is where I should shut up and quit while I'm ahead! hahahaahahh

Mulch your name and location cracks me up lmao.

/signed

I bought some stuff there before and I eventually found out that stuff was freebies other people had made =(

Happy to see some community action is taking place.

I went there once a couple weeks ago, looked at things, thought "wow, this all looks very familiar" and walked away, since I had, *gasp* been looking for products containing inovation.

No wonder I didn't feel the innovative spirit coming from there

That's it, I'm making a pair of signs, a bright green one "Impeach blue signs!" and a nice, pastel one "Will retexture freebies for money"

Wait, nevermind, I'll just make the first, why should I waste my money on Jamie?

signed

Im sorry, but I do have to say I find it funny at least one person "signing" this petition, does/did it themself. ;p All I gotta say, the person knows who they are ;p

I love ironic things

This is a constant issue that's been brought up since the beginning of SL. People seem to like doing it, no matter how many people object, and has a very negative impact on content creator's freebie donations.

Many people end up tagging their freebies as no-transfer or no-copy, just because they can't stand the idea of someone else getting rich off their freebies.

An 'always free' permission setting has been suggested in the past. While that wouldn't be a perfect solution, I think it might reduce the occurences of freebie reselling.

Echoing this previously suggested suggestion.

But Francis is right to label it not perfect, since MOD means you can pretty much copy / exploit the item at reckless abandon.

My only additional suggestion is to include a Copyright notecard in a freebie labeled "FREEBIE COPYRIGHT" or something of the sort. In the notecard clearly state that the product is not to be sold, and this notecard not to be removed or altered. At least then you have some meat for LL to bite into later on if it's a clear exploitation.

/signed

I had once flew over to Jamie's store and was rather disappointed someone was selling items for L$1000 that I could get for free. In fact, I had actually found out about her store from a newbie, and felt really sorry for that newb, because she pretty much got ripped off.

Good work Simmy.

Another name for her form of Capitalism is called STEALING!

Thieves really get my goat! And I want em to bring it back!

These allegations are slanderous and untrue. This post is also a violation of the forum TOS.

I'm suprised the thread is still open. This thread is clearly a violation of the TOS. If people are truly upset over this issue, a more productive way to help the newbies is to make avaliable those freebies all over SL. Buy little plots of land and set up freebie shops. Sell them for $L1 to cover the tier and purchase price of the land. It may not break even, but it's a way to protest in a positive way. Complaining on the forums won't inform many newbies.

I more or less suggested that, except without the "store" or the "$L1" parts.

Hmm. I wonder if you couldn't, instead of buying bunches of land, just release a bunch of drones programmed to wander around the grid, seeking out new bies and new civilizations, boldly informing them of the problem (wth specific examples of what is being sold), and offer to direct them to a location where they can get these items for free. Since such objects can wind up dying due to land permissions and such, have some method of replenishing the supply (either have the drones signal a central factory, or give the drones a specific time to live, and make them at a steady rate)

Bonus points if you give them "anti-flocking behavior" where drones try to avoid being too close together (both for lag reasons, and for coverage).

Is there some rule against that which hasn't occurred to me? (Aside from, obviously, "don't let them get out of hand and crash the grid".)