Shout Out: I've Never Made a L$ in SL and I Don't Care Thread

Who cares about making money... virtual or real?

My story: I operate a little secondhand store in SL, enjoy tinkering around with it, and scouring the world for bargains.

I've yet to make a profit and I don't give a rats a**

Who is with me?! Who plays for FUN?

I'm with you

Yay! I spend $86 a month on SL, plus quite few trips to GOM and have never even come close to breaking even, or even staying afloat financially, unless I don't shop at all.

I bet I make my mother proud!

$18 a month, a few trips to IGE (but only when I see something I can't possibly do without). and I'm happy. Go figure.

I'm with ya!!!!!!!!!!

I'm all over the fun.

I'm not interested in making money on SL. I have a rl job...I don't need the headaches that I see some people have when having a business on SL. Sure I would like to learn how to make clothes and other things...but my goal has never been to open up a store and sell things to make money. I prefer to shop hehe.

Its fun to see people obsessed with money spazz when GOM falls

*wicked*

I learned how to design clothes because I didn't see a lot out there that fit my style. After making a few things I decided to open up a little shop and maybe cover my subscription and land fees, but the goal was never to have it be lucrative.

Once I started making clothes to sell, it was taking up a fair amount of offline time to make clothes (time I could be spending in game) to keep up a stream of new products. I realized that it would take a lot of effort to make enough L$ to pay my costs. So now I am happy selling a few things so I don't have to make as many trips to GOM when shopping. Plus I have found I just like it when people wear my stuff, the money is just a bonus.

Word! Second Life is a great place to noodle around.

I spent easily six months wandering around, buying goodies, and building stuff on my lovely hillside in Kaili. My prized possession was a re-textured Juro Kothari tubular house in a box, which I'd acquired (several times) at GNU Architects for L$1. I placed that sucker upside down, 650m in the sky, and made numerous abortive attempts to get a serviceable elevator running to that height.

I made friends, bumped into interesting people, and helped newbies. Finding neat gadgets was great, and I spend countless thousands on fun toys and attachments.

Then one day I started noodling around with a robot that, now that I'd been given Reitsuki Kojima's transform animation, I could actually use.

I built it, wore it around, and my life continued unchanged. But quite suddenly, people kept pestering me. They wanted a robot, too. I thought about this. If I were going to sell it, I would want it to be *excellent*.

So I worked at adding features, so it would do stuff, and be easy to use. I paid people to help me with scripting. Before I realized it, I was putting my business classes to use, one by one. Finally, I rebuilt the robot and started selling it.

Since then I haven't looked back. I guess now I'm one of "those people" who I'd always looked at with curiosity and respect, because they made cool products I could buy.

I never expected to make money here. But both sides of the coin have been very enjoyable to me. Product development is challenging, but it's also a blast, and invaluable training for real world situations. I'm still having lots of fun.

Yep...

I have a good paying RL job - that pays for my SL fun.

Making friends and building karma is a lot more important to me than making Lindens. Nothing against those that do make cash off SL - I just have different priorities.

Trav

my Rl Job pays for mty SL fun, and I like it that way. No Sl headaches for this boy!

Same here - I wanted to create gardens so Toy taught me how to create plants and now I have a little nursery & greenhouse. I don't make a lot, not even enough to cover tier fees but I really enjoy seeing gardens and wild life areas with my plants in them.

Also, I take photos of really cool plants I see here in Florida and bring them into SL and that's sort of relaxing for me - like knitting or something.

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I think Enebran's story might actually be shared by a lot of people successful at sharing their wares. They didn't necessarily set out to do that, but they made something they loved, and voila, so did other people!

As for me, put me among the I never made a dollar (not a Linden) in Second Life and I don't care group. As others have said, I have enough work to do irl, lol.

Instead, I go about learning how to make those things that appeal to me, precisely in the hopes that eventually I will get it right, and make something others like as well. And I don't really care how long that takes. Getting there is half the fun.

And if somebody ever did want to hand me what amounts to real life bucks (more than my small sales so far, I mean) for what I like to do in the game anyway for my own pleasure, well hey! I'm not gonna stop em!

Meanwhile, my schitck is to not SPEND any money on the game. I made the mistake of telling my husband one night, "I even spent thirty dollars to upload pictures of myself for thatcontest," and he reared up out of his chair - "WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!???" No, no, not REAL money, I said, making a mental note never to use the term "dollars" around him again.

Consequently I am always somewhat obsessed with earning Lindens, since I enjoy my home in Azure very much, and need the Lindens to keep paying "tier" (rent by any other name) on it, as well as to upload textures, and a very few other things, like rating somebody. It's not good to not have the Lindens when something unexpected comes up you really want to do.

That's different, though, from talking about real life money. I doubt I will ever care much about that, as long as I have a nice place to live in like I do now. But like I said, if it happened, I wouldn't protest.

coco

I got a beta lifer account, and didn't start paying any tier until last August. Lindens are play money to me. Before someone asks, the answer is no.

I haven't made a single $L yet and probably never will. Anything I created that people were interested in - I gave away for free. I have a good paying and very stressful job and don't play to stress out on SL too.

I pay $195 a month Land tier,$30 a month Streaming fees and run Lestats Dark Erotica and have never made anything in SL beyond hoards of happy people who come to the club

Got a job already - dont need another thanks

Made the "hoards of happy and horny people" ehehhehehehheeh