What do vendors want?
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Alias Jensen
Monkey with keyboard
Join date: 17 Jun 2004
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10-23-2004 13:34
I'm working on creating items for vendors to help them provide better services for their clients. So I'd like to hear what kind of easy to use things would be useful to you the salesmen & women of second life?
Currently I've made a secureTag system which lets vendors be able to provide trial use versions of items (by simply dropping a tag script into the trial object) so customers can try items in the store but the item de-rezes itself after 1 minute away from the store. Is there any kind of demand for this from vendors?
What else do you want?
-Alias
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Paolo Portocarrero
Puritanical Hedonist
Join date: 28 Apr 2004
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10-23-2004 14:07
From: Alias Jensen I'm working on creating items for vendors to help them provide better services for their clients. So I'd like to hear what kind of easy to use things would be useful to you the salesmen & women of second life?
Currently I've made a secureTag system which lets vendors be able to provide trial use versions of items (by simply dropping a tag script into the trial object) so customers can try items in the store but the item de-rezes itself after 1 minute away from the store. Is there any kind of demand for this from vendors?
What else do you want?
-Alias That sounds like a great idea, esp. for clothing. In addition to that, I'd like to be able to update all vendors from a central repository. This would apply to situations where duplicate vendors are placed in various locations/malls. Whereas the SLData vendors provide a useful XML-RPC Web interface for tracking order history, adding to that some sort of inventory management tool would be most excellent. |
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Alias Jensen
Monkey with keyboard
Join date: 17 Jun 2004
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10-23-2004 14:30
From: someone Paolo Portocarrero
That sounds like a great idea, esp. for clothing.
Unfortunately it works only for things made of prims because there isnt a way to attach a script to clothes  However belt buckles, hats, tails,wings and other avatar accessories are not a problem. by updating vendors, do you mean adjusting the contents & prices of vendor boxes, or is there more to it? Inventory management, as in having a vendor only sell a limted number of some item and then removing it from the vendor's inventory? ie being able to offer a large limited edition of 250 prints from all your vendors in total? -alias |
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Cubey Terra
Aircraft Builder
Join date: 6 Sep 2003
Posts: 1,725
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10-23-2004 14:30
From: Alias Jensen I'm working on creating items for vendors to help them provide better services for their clients. So I'd like to hear what kind of easy to use things would be useful to you the salesmen & women of second life?
Currently I've made a secureTag system which lets vendors be able to provide trial use versions of items (by simply dropping a tag script into the trial object) so customers can try items in the store but the item de-rezes itself after 1 minute away from the store. Is there any kind of demand for this from vendors?
What else do you want?
-Alias I"m curious... what's to prevent the buyer from deleting the secureTag script?
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Alias Jensen
Monkey with keyboard
Join date: 17 Jun 2004
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10-23-2004 14:43
god, thanks Cubey Terra for making me take a look at that! I'd kind of gone on the assumption that no modify meant no modify....  Appearantly no modify doesn't mean no modify it means open me up and dissect me at will. Oh well it was educational to write the scripts.... Any other ideas that aren't gonna be gimped by iffy back-end design choices? |
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Nexus Nash
Undercover Linden
Join date: 18 Dec 2002
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10-24-2004 07:55
This already exists! And it's gonna get better REAL soon!
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billy Madison
www.SLAuctions.com
Join date: 6 Jun 2004
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10-24-2004 08:16
From: Nexus Nash This already exists! And it's gonna get better REAL soon! nexus is the king of pimped out vendors. I was thankfull enough to test on out.. let me tell you.. it makes the others look like something out of the flintstones. |
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Cubey Terra
Aircraft Builder
Join date: 6 Sep 2003
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10-24-2004 08:20
From: Alias Jensen Any other ideas that aren't gonna be gimped by iffy back-end design choices? I can't think of any off-hand. 
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
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10-24-2004 09:20
From: Alias Jensen Currently I've made a secureTag system which lets vendors be able to provide trial use versions of items (by simply dropping a tag script into the trial object) so customers can try items in the store but the item de-rezes itself after 1 minute away from the store. Is there any kind of demand for this from vendors?
You know, I like the sound of that. I'm very much a try-before-you-buy person because there have been a few items I've purchased that looked a lot better on the box. Similarly, as has been discussed in this thread, if there was a way to do trial versions of clothing, that would be bomb diggity bomb. There.com has Try-o-Matic machines, and if SL had something similar, I can see it increasing interest in consumer goods. I would like this.  |
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Alias Jensen
Monkey with keyboard
Join date: 17 Jun 2004
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10-24-2004 09:23
From: someone I can't think of any off-hand. lol, me neither. good thing about second life, you can always come up with something else to do.  -Alias |
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Hank Ramos
Lifetime Scripter
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
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10-24-2004 09:25
Vendors want more L$!? |