Let's Have Instant Access To For-Sale-ees

A great portion of Second Life's spiffyness comes from the many skilled members who produce delightful contrivances and offer them for sale at a broad range of prices! Time, technical problems, and other impediments prevent many a deal from closing that would have brought mutual benefit to the transactants if only the dealmaking had come to fruition.

If potential customers find shopping too undesirable they are denied the pleasure of content they value more highly than their linden dollars , and the sellers are denied the profit that might have resulted had the deals been closed.

So this is the scheme.

Linden Lab makes a For Sale folder in our inventory, similar to the folders that currently exist.

If you have a fantastic product like an Enabran bot or a Cubey Airplane that you'd like to sell as easily as possible you'd do the following:

1. Put the item, with a good description, in the For-Sale-ees folder.

Here's some benefits.

- Currently, items for sale in-world compete against free items already in the Library folder and additional free items distributed at Help Island and many other user owned sites both inworld and on the web. Making for sale items available for maximally easy purchase helps to reduce some of this inequity, and allows new producers with no land to compete on an equal basis with landed sellers.

- Having each item made readily findable to all will encourage both price competition and the creation of distinct items that stand out from the crowd.

- Free from the need to spend time and effort marketing, content producers can find more time to make content!

- If purchasers don't have the funds in their Linden accounts needed to make a purchase they can automatically be directed to Lindex for high speed acquisition of inworld currency, thus helping to strike while the iron is hot.

Does this idea have merit? Or have I lost my mind again?

Receives the Lecktor Hannibal® /sarcasm stamp of approval.

Careful, people could take this idea seriously, and run with it!

I don't support anything sold second hand.

Eg: If an upgrade busts something and you didn't buy it from me, you are SOL.

Other than that, it's a great idea, unfortunately not so much for LL.

What I'd like to get is XML access to the classifieds.

I am not sure why this would be considered second hand.

If blaze wants to selll something through the ForSale folder, blaze puts it in.

When people buy the item offered by blaze in the ForSale folder, the money goes straight to blaze.

It's like having a universal vendor right in your purse.

I hadn't thought of it at the time, but each For Sale item's entry should have a link to the seller's blog/website, in blaze's case that would be Spinnaker.secondlife.com/blaze or something like that.

The blog link would mean people could post product questions in the forum portion of blaze's blog.

blaze's blog link would also be included in any classifieds blaze created, either in the forums here or in the inworld classifieds.

The blogs I mean are the ones that Second Life should make available to to all Second Life users, which I have a post about in the Feature Suggestions.

blaze, you used to mention that SL should provide us with blogs in your sig, didn't you?

Ijust have to say... you're nuckin' futs

Why? The idea, or something similar, is perfectly feasible.

Particularly after the Mozilla code gets into use, the crude inventory display we currently have could be replaced with a full featured browser style display built right into the client user interace.

If they can put HTML on a prim they can put it into the user interface. Then maybe we could get pictures of the for sale items in our For Sale folders, and videos as well.

So if they used the Mozilla code to display the inworld Classifieds listings they could make the inworld classifieds look just like a normal web page instead of the crude look they have now. Like they could have multiple pictures.

Sounds like something the people paying for classifieds ought to be be asking for.

Nice for customers too.

Sounds good to me.

The For Sale folder, and the rest of the inventory as well, would be rendered much more usable by having a full Boolean search system.

Easier access to products means more money for product makers and more happy customers.

I was bein' sarcastic... hence this smilie:

after all, you did ask if you'd lost your mind