unwanted advertisement in mainstore.

I found out that at my mainstore people where advertising their own buisness on a regular basis. we had a person claiming to be the an employee that would make custom tattoos special for our customers.
Also we had allot of people handing out landmarks and other notecards.

if you have also had the same problems with av's using your mainstore as their office. and you found actions to prefent it, pls let me know.





Thanks,

Flater Baxter

Two things you can do:

1) Post signs in the store stating that you do not have any "employees" and warning customers not to buy anything directly from anyone. Sadly, hanging out in other peoples stores to solicit business has become a common tactic to scam off another seller's traffic and reputation. (Wait until you start getting IMs that go, "I bought X from Y at your store and it's a piece of crap. I want my money back."

2) Create an alt and make the time to hang around your store posing as a customer during times where you suspect this is happening. Collect the names of the offending avatars and ban them from the land later. I would not recommend otherwise engage them in a "Ha-ha!" manner... unless, of course, you like drama. Alternately, you could ask a friend or two to act as the undercover agents.

The caveat... anyone you ban can create an alt of their own and be back the next day. The hope would be, though, that eventually they'd get tired and move on to pull the solicitation scam somewhere else.

Right click - Eject and Ban ...

If you have a group or mailing list for your store send out a message on that too. Warn your loyal customers and ask them to report anyone doing this to you. I'd be happy to do this for the stores I'm fond of.

My experience is this only happens at the really popular stores, so if your place is that popular I'd recommend hiring someone to keep an eye on the place for you. Plain clothes of course so the lowlifes don't realise they work for you and try it on with them.

send them a invoice first for using your space, make it look really professional, possibly a well designed texture with accompanying note card, thrown in lines like 'registered office' 'copyright' statements etc, as scary as you can. that should shock them. if they pay then ban them.

You probably are having run ins with the same person who has harrassed my shop for about a year now using multiple alt accounts. Can not get LL to do anything about it. Good luck.

I doubt an abuse report would even be effective in a situation like this, because Linden would see this as a resident-to-resident dispute.

I'd say your most effective option would be to place a sign in your store advising your customers who true staff members are, and to send you an IM if they run across impersonators. Then you can add the impersonators to your parcel ban list.

BanLink (http://www.slbanlink.com) could be another option for you, but unfortunately, you either need to either own a full sim or have a high traffic venue in order to participate.

Do whatever they do to stop it happening in RL.
Not much else will work.
I guess the tradeoff is are they costing you more income than you would be paying someone to be there. If not, no point getting overworried about it I guess than doing the basic stuff suggested.

I echo what others have said, signs are your best bet for informing your customers of the legitimate avatars associated with the business. Doesnt help with poeple passing out notecards and LM's though. With people generating multiple alts every day i have never really found an effective way to combat this other than patrolling the store 24/7 with my own alts which isn't time effective.

lol good idea

Or just let them stay and send them another invoice every day.