Questions about buying houses/stores

How do I buy a house and a store?

Where can I find some neat, unique houses and stores to buy and how much do they cost on average?

Can I use Linden Dollars to buy them or do I need real money?

Did you get some camping chairs for furniture, then?

Pep (He's *definitely* not *my* alt!)

You can buy them with Linden dollars, you might want to learn to build and put your own unique mark on your builds.

Do a search for prefabs or commercial buildings or homes/houses.

No, I found a place to camp.

You will probably have to camp for a long long time to earn enough to buy a house, but there are tons of free ones all over the grid anyway.

Being brand new, why would you even think that you need a store yet?

I am just looking for ways to make extra L$.

Check out the Events tab on the Search button - NCI used to offer a low-prim housing class, and I'm sure there are others out there. Even if you don't like a particular build, you can use the techniques you learn to branch off on your own.

Or if you're feeling brave, search up a sandbox or camp somewhere that allows object creation and start messing with prims - try a box, hollowed, then stick something on the ends... a trip to the Ivory Tower of Prims is a HUGE help if you're into learning on your own.

Or go to www.xstreetsl.com, enter "house" in the search and sort from high price to low. You can buy direct from the site or note the maker's name and search for them in-world. (ETA: I know there are some free buildings, at least, and some that are very low-cost. You'll have to deposit your L$ to be able to buy direct there.)

The standard freebie places might have some buildings for the taking - try Sarah Nerd's Freebie Paradise, YadNi's Junkyard, the GNUbie store.

Hope that helps!

How do you intend doing that with an empty store?

He's going to sell camping chairs to n00bs.

Pep (That he got in McDonalds Happy Meals)

Oh, for pete's sake....somebody just send him a freebie wang so he can stop trying to figure out how to make money....

I find it ironic how it says "here to help" under your name, but yet all the responses you make are flames and not the least bit helpful. Grow up.

Like I said, I am new to SL. I don't know much about how stores work.

Instead of being a jackass, why don't you try to help? That is what this forum is for, isn't it?

Stores in SL work just the same way stores in RL work - you have a product or service and you set it for sale. If you are new to SL I don't know what you would intend to sell; although there are what is known as BIAB's - business in a box - they are almost without exception collections of freebies, stolen goods, or poorly made rubbish that only very new inexperienced people might buy. Since you are new to SL, it isn't likely that you have created much, if any, content yet.

There are also affilliate vendors that pay a percentage to the owner and a percentage to the creator, but these only work if you have an outlet in a high traffic area and the goods are high quality. In the main these are fashion items. and most customers prefer to shop at the main store where the choice will be wider.
Alternatively, perhaps you have a skill such as scripting, 3D design or good Photoshop skills?

Successful stores in SL are established over a fairly long time period and have a proven track record. many go out of business quickly, as they don't earn enough in revenue to cover rent or land use fees, or membership costs if premium.

Nevertheless, welcome to SL, and good luck.

Phil asked an honest question. How about you do a little reading using the Knowledge Base and the search function here on the forums. You seem to want SL riches handed to you on a silver platter with a minimum of work.

And, by the way, the two fastest ways to alienate potential helpers here are:
1) to show no sense of humor
2) to complain about the answers one gets

Just so you know.

My advice? Do a little legwork on your own, and come back here with questions on specifics that seem baffling. Also, spend some time actually exploring inworld before even considering setting up a business, home, whatever.

Hello Falkor and welcome to SL and to the forums.

Pep what the hell is wrong with you? If you don't want to help someone new who is looking for information, that's fine, don't post. If you want to pick on a troll, go for it.

Phil's question was sarcastic, just like a lot of the responses I've gotten on this forum. I am not afraid to admit that I'm a newbie. Everyone was a newbie at some point.

If people don't want to help, that's fine. But they shouldn't bother responding at all if all they are going to do is flame and troll.

A few points, having noticed that this brief post is considerably more "grown up" than your previous naive questions.

1. That isn't irony. *You* can be helped in all sorts of ways that aren't those that you expect. Others can be helped by being alerted to having their time wasted by trolls, alts and under-age posters.

2. If you think *that's* a "flame" then boy do you have a lot to learn.

3. I have noticed recently that there are quite a few new posters who are asking very basic questions, almost as if someone somewhere was attempting to generate a knowledge base of dumb n00b questions that might assist in the "first hour" and generate a more "predictable experience". Funny that?

Pep (If I was a third party commissioned to establish a Q&A type of forum and didn't have much depth of experience inworld then by far the easiest way to build the necessary information would be by "guerilla posting"

So you have been here a short time and *you* are telling *us* what we should do?

Pep (Who's the *real* troll?)

If you are trying to insinuate that I have other intentions in mind, you are sadly mistaken.

As usual, your post is not the least bit helpful. Which makes me wonder why you even bother to keep responding at all. Get a life, pal.

So because you've been here longer than I am, that entitles you to be a jerkoff? Mmkay.

I quite enjoy pointing out the discrepanies between the apparent moronic persona you demonstrated in your original questions and the more mature vocabulary and phrasing you are using now.

Pep (Any minute now someone will accuse you of being my alt! )

PS Yet *another* life?

So because you claim to be a n00b you think *your* culture should be adopted immediately?

Pep (If I didn't think you were a trolling alt I would suggest that you should not be so lazy and stop demanding that wheels be reinvented just for you)

You mean like for this?

http://vteamblog.com/2009/04/09/second-life-answers-update-and-call-for-volunteer-beta-testers/

My question was genuine. You might already have things to sell from somewhere, or you might already be creating things, or your intention might be to buy an existing shop that sells existing things. In all the posts you've written since then, you haven't answered the question. But it's too late to answer it now as I'm not interested in offering you any sort of help or advise. As we say where I live, "you've muckied your ticket" by calling me a jackass, and by your replies to other people.

FWIW, there are many successful business owners in this forum, some of whom have responded in this thread - including me. You could have been pointed in the right direction were it not for your attitude. Some may still do that, but I won't be one of them.

I am suddenly laughing. Night all!

Edit -- not directed at you Phil.