Monthly "Buy Stuff" Day! :o) a Request

I am proposing a request for a monthly "buy stuff" day.

I suggest that once a month is the day that everyone goes out and buys stuff. There are many SLers that don't buy anything... however, I think it is important to get money flowing. Many people make great products that are rarely bought simply because it isn't a necessity. If we all collectively go out and buy stuff once a month, not for the product, but to give support to the creators, I think that would be cool.

I propose:

The 15th of every month, everyone go out and spend $1000L (or whatever you can afford).
Spend it on things that you may not need, but more as a support for the creator of a product you think is cool.

I know not everyone will be a part of this... but I am going to start. And anyone that thinks this is a good idea, please join me.

You are welcome the 15th.. OK you are welcome today to)

/Tina - Lets EXAKT shop...

I'd go for a different one:

On the monthly day go out and buy stuff from people you have never bought from before

But...but...I buy stuff almost everyday.

Should I cut back to once a month now? O.o

Or, uh, you know, just buy things as you normally do.

Come on! How many sets of gentials does a person actually need?

Well...in RL, one set has done me just fine to date. In SL...I have managed to go two years now and not own or buy a single prim genital of any variety...so I would answer...none.

However...in my experience, a new hair style and outfit each day is a very necessary thing. =P

Get The Money Flowing My Way.

The world talks about the J girls in a bad way for their "vanity"

well, the people that do buy stuff, you're doin great.

For the people that don't buy stuff... lets go spending on the 15th.

I like the idea of buying something from somewhere you've never bought from before.

I am simply under the impression that once people start spending money on products, they will also see an overall return to their wellbeing and karma.

It's not about trying to get people to buy your stuff... it's about spending to support.


So June 15th... anyone wanna meet up and goto a mall or somethin?

free cinnabuns on me

Are you Torley's alt?

I've already got that kinda day, only it happens every week.

I call it, "stipend day"

no... i dont know torley

I wish there was a "Lock Lindens day"
where LL will lock your SL wallet for a day and nobody could purchase anything in that day of the month!

now that will be cool!

Maybe people who don't buy stuff don't buy stuff because they're not being given good reasons to act any other way.

And that'd be the fault of people who make... stuff.

If people don't have a good reason to spend their money, why should I expect them to spend it? I'd feel really bad if someone was spending money on my stuff even though they didn't feel like it was actually worth the money. Folks, buy my stuff because it's awesome and you crave awesome, not because you want some touchy-feely, namby-pamby karmic recompense at some point down the road.

It's right at this point I'd expect someone who I'll call Slivianne Paper to show up and say something nasty about content creators and how they don't need any more help than they have. And while her reactionary tone would be totally uncalled for, she'd be essentially right. Everything in SL is pure luxury. In the meritocracy of this free market, everyone who deserves to be making money right now is.

What a strange thread.

Anyway, I already have enough days built up from previous shopping trips to last several lifetimes of monthly "buy stuff" days, and I doubt I'm going to slow down regardless of what anyone else does.

oh please i spend so much money every month.. there are designers in second life that have made their fortunes from my bank acct...

i could stop shopping then and....oh no... stop shopping...must shop... must shop.....

afraid the addiction is too strong to only do it on the 15th

100% agree

No way! I do not need anything at this time

This is a surreal thread. It should be noted that I didn't previously spell "well-being" without a hyphen, I may have to now--because of what Doubledown said.

That being said, I am a YUGE fan of The Donald and wonder what it'd be like if he met Buddha. "All ur dollahs 4 enlightenment!"

I'm also an avid consumer.

To the topic, I don't have a predefined day where I spend my L$, but sometimes I am compelled to do things in theme. One thing leads to another: I get a new hairstyle and decide I'll need accessories (modifiable, of course) for it. And then shoes to match, etc. I feel severely fortunate that it's not so hard for me to find watermelon-flavored items anymore.

Ok, please reread my post and then go out and buy stuff on the 15th please....


jeeze why does everyone on the forums always have such negativity..
I am posting a positive post... I dont want a list of reasons from everyone as to why this sucks.


You cheap people... I am saying this to all the people that have a tight wallet... go out and friggin buy something!!! who cares what it is... buy something, because you want to help out another SLer. you want to make them feel good for a day.

Well they don't need any more help. I'm sorry but I just kind of feel that helping the content creators is kind of like giving tax breaks for yachts. People who are cashing in 1mil plus lindens per month don't need help.

Furthermore that's certainly a personal attack and definitely a naming of names. But given the amount of times I've jumped on the resmods and the amount of favoritism I see going on -- I don't really expect anything to be done about it.

That reactionary enough for you or should I call you a name or two?

The fact of the matter is that I'm an avid consumer in SL and spend about 5k a month on stuff and often more. I build, I wear, I give gifts... I dump a buttload of cash into this economy. For my trouble I get people like Tenabran Stemplar (see I can play this game too) attacking me because I think that people who are not buying lindens and making tons of money by selling lindens don't need help to make more. Furthermore if I want the item badly enough, I'll buy it. I've paid 2500L for a dress. Spending money in SL does not scare me. However, pricing items at what you need to make a buck obviously does scare other people. That's kind of not my problem y'know? Its not LL's problem either.

Uh, no, I'll buy things when I'm given good reason to do so. I expect the same of my customers.



My customers aren't there to make me feel good. They're there to trade me something that is valuable in exchange for something else that's valuable. That trade should make us both feel good because we both get what we want. If it doesn't make them feel good, inducing them to do it anyway so I'll have a special day would make me into a slimeball.

I'm good, thanks.

edit: Further, let's say that people did indeed go out and waste money on the 15th to "give people a good day." What happens when the 16th rolls around and no one is around to give them a good day? the 25th? This would especially suck for someone just starting out, who'd end up with an artificially inflated sense of his work's value and then spend weeks wondering why no more "good days" were forthcoming.

Indeed, I'm happy to allow the natural meritocracy we have constructed here to continue delivering good days to those who work hardest to capture them.

I don't feel like anyone needs any special handouts in Second Life. I won't make the obvious point that there are exeedingly few people who are actually cashing out L$1 million.



Check this out:





Congratulations.



Actually, I think any negative reputation you're getting on this subject is due to incessant whining about the exact same things. Just a hunch -- can't speak for the person you're talking about though.



Again, congratulations.

I think the point would be to encourage people to shop around - for a long while I thought that I didn't really need to buy another more in SL, until some friends showed me some new stuff that I also throught was great and I bought it. There is just too much content, changing too quickly, in SL for anyone to really ever be absolutely sure that they have all they want that's available, so a "buy stuff" day would encourage folks to look around.

I know that the heavy-duty capitalists like to say it's people's own fault if they can't attract customers, as part of the standard trick of heavy-duty capitalists of defining "enough work" by results (ignoring customers' free will in the process ) so that "if you do enough work then you succeed" becomes a truism. But the truth is that with the L$-based Classifieds placement and the new display policies on places like SLEx, publicity has gotten harder recently.