TRUly Lame

Oh it was aimed at a brand, but I'm pretty sure you never used to be allowed to name a rival brand, so they went for the type of lawnmower their rival sold instead.

The uppercase TRU is the issue I would imagine.

Does TRU sell toys in 10 packs?

I do wonder how the OP would feel if the shoe was on the other foot, and it was _his_ work being insulted by a competitor on xstreet. If a competitor stated in their ads "You won't find textures like these in one of those lame VonYuckstein texture packs", would he think that was just fine?

If your product is truly superior, its quality should speak for itself, and you should not need to stoop to insulting a competitor. I certainly wouldn't stoop to that level myself, in any ad I took out. And it appears that LL thinks people who advertise and sell via xstreet shouldn't do so, either.

(Note, I do not own or operate Textures-R-Us. I am an independent contractor who happens to sell their textures at Textures-R-Us.)

If you knew what he charges, you would agree with me. That happens to be his nickname, I won't tell you what he calls me.

It would be difficult to avoid being biased even though you don't own Textures R Us.

I'm not the OP but I'd be flattered if my competitors advertised that their stuff is better than mine. "Lower prims than Prim Savers" People, who may never have come to my place, would come to see what this "Prim Savers" is, and I'd do well from it.

Yes actually I would be more than fine with it. I actually like Von Yuckstein.. it has a ring of power and sexiness...and maybe when I start making 10 Packs some day - I will call them the VONYUCKSTEIN TRUTEXTURE SERIES PACK.

The problem is not so much the whining of the other store owner for me for accidentally mis-capitalizing a word and then liking it rather than fixing it, leave it as it was.

The problem is LL or those Leftclick happy censorship Nazis from SLX sitting in a cubicle holding a gun to my head telling me I cannot use the word TRUy when it is not even a valid Store name.

may I recommend you turn on the TV and watch a few commercials. The TV is full of companies slamming their competitors in every imaginable way and many even mention their names. You are messing with free speech.

yes 10 Packs are TRUly lame! that is my oppinion and I stand 100% behind it!

and thanks for all the input btw, I appreciate it.. all except the Llionel Richie song, that was abusive.


here is the wording from ythe shakedown email:

This item is in violation of the Marketplace Listing Guidelines for Non-competitive or abusive behavior Please modify or remove the reference to TRU textures

TRUly lame!

Have you ever heard the phrase...."Any Publicity is Good Publicity"......?

Looks like you're helping out quite a bit with that....might be shooting yourself in the foot a tad. I would suggest that is truly lame....but trying to cut down on posting facts that are misinterpreted as insults.

I think I'll run by there tonight, and pick up some textures. Thanks for the reminder.

I think this probably _is_ trademark violation, but I still have a real problem with the general attitude to enforcement by the Lindens - namely, that it is devastating, unaccountable, and selective.

From what I understand, this is a case where a resident was _banned_ - completely banned - for violating an in-world company's trademark in a product listing, in the absense of any actual complaint by that in-world company.

Yet at the same time, LL allowed the Harry Potter sims to develop in stark violation of hundreds of trademarks and exclusive interactive entertainment rights, and their stock response to any allegations was, "well, Warner haven't complained". Even when people were acted against, they were only asked to rename the offending objects, not just BANNED.

not banned just forced to remove the word TRUly

That's how they ask, they disable access to your items until you do as you are told. And yes it looks like the use of TRU is a trademark violation, we will find out Monday.

I take offense at that.

sorry about the Lionel Richie song

No i'm NOT!! hahahaha



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It's not going to make everything better to get someone's trademark permission. That dig would still be against Xstreet rules. It's in their listing guidelines, way at the bottom of disallowed actions:

That's a different issue altogether. It has nothing to do with trademark, but I guess XStreetSL has some sort of "play-nice" rules. That's a matter of contrct, not IP. Unless those rules are selectively and unfairly enforced, there's probably nothing your scumbag lawyer can do for you.

Though I am all in favor of Linden Lab being sued into oblivion. It was one of my New Year predictions for Second Life.

In America, as long as an advertiser doesn't make a false or misleading statement, the advertiser is free to insult away.

Take for example the ubiquitous "Mac vs. PC" ads. (Which routinely insult Microsoft and Windows by name.)

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

Even if you are allowed in the USA to offend your competitor, on the Xstreet site it is not, they stated that (see Viktoria Dovgal's post)

LL owns the site, and you just have to respect their rules.

Nice is for sissies and girls! hahaha

Buying SLX was one of the keys to that, collecting commisions takes them off the Service Provider Immunity List. I will not speculate on timing but some day someone with a brain and a lot of evil inside them along with a good scumbag lawyer will end them. Probably somebody who paid them a lot of money and got tired of being treated like a child instead of a paying customer.


Trademark or not, I did not mention their name, I only must have offended the owner of that store personally by accident. Honestly half the stuff on SLX offends me, should I AR it all?

Just odd I find it that someone who makes so many Wiccan items is so completely at odds with the Wiccan rede.

Yeh, it's free ads for you!

This sounds like they are accusing you of "abusive behavior", not "trademark violation".

IANAL... However, regardless of whether it is ethical or not, or what anyone's opinion of the style of advertising is, naming one's competitor in a negative way in one's advertising campaign is perfectly legal in the United States as long as neither slander nor libel are involved. Anyone who is not aware that this practice is commonplace either does not live in the US or does not watch much TV.

They can do it here in Australia too.

i learned quickly that they can pretty much say what they want about their own product as well as long as the product was not present at the time..

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