SLShopper.com - a brand new way to shop

http://www.slshopper.com

I am pleased to announce the launch of the new SLShopper.com shopping site - a brand new way to shop for products in Second Life. It combines the strong categorization, browsing,image and search features of an online store with the ease of use of forums, along with the fun of inworld shopping.

SLShopper.com is a hybrid of the best of both online stores and forum classifieds, without the drawbacks of either. You can literally list a product in less than a minute. All you need is a single large product image, the SLURL or link you want your customers to go to, a title, description and price. It's as easy as posting a post in the forums. No inventory to maintain and sync with sites.

Users of the site can easily add products they are interested in to their wish list so that they can browse through and find things they would like to buy. This bookmarks the ad in a convenient list that shows the product, price, and has a direct link right on the list to go to the product in world.

Ads can also have keywords associated with them, and some categories have special fields like prim count, mimimum plot size, store name, etc. The ads can have up to 6 images - the site handles creating all the thumbnails and other size images for you.

The site is brand new so it does not have much content in it yet but I am actively working with content designers and the fashion blogs to get people to list content. The site is live, so if you are a content creator, start adding your products to the site. SLUniverse has over 800,000 monthly visitors and the site will be fully integrated with the rest of SLU and heavily promoted.

Registration is easy and free - it is fully integrated with the brand new SLU 2.0 Forums at http://forums.sluniverse.com (note - you must reregister if you were registered with the old forums to use the new forums and SLShopper.com). Users can leave comments and ebay style feedback about sellers as well.

Try out the site and please feel free to send any questions or feedback to me - or post in the new SLU 2.0 forums - there is a feedback forum there. Please excuse the mess while the site is launched and SLU gets a complete overhaul.

I just wanted to say great job Cris and urge people out there to take advantage of the Shopper. I was a bit concerned it might be time consuming and/or complicated to use but take it from me, a total technophobe, it's seriously easy for both the shopper and the content creator. I think it's amazing that you are offering this service for free and I urge others to try it out for themselves.

Looks a good website.. do you intend to extend the categories? Maybe include 'Services' and 'Entertainment/Media' elements?