Sales plumeting?

OMG H4X



I want my monies back

ROFL!!

OK, what's H4X mean?

Take your pick: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=h4x

I think the intent here was tongue in cheek.

Are these the same people who agree with you inworld that all gay men are disgusting? Or the ones who agree with you that all avis should only be the gender/race/species they are in rl? Or maybe the ones who agree that Christians invented marriage? Quite a little imaginary cheering section you have going there! Personally, all my imaginary friends agree with me, too. Or they did when I was 5...

Did you?

Did you really?

Hm.

Happy to have helped

Avawyn, you say you're going to give an honest opinion of the clothing you're sent for your magazine, but you can't even be honest about where you got that idea from?

Is anyone actually falling for this scam? I've seen better pitches to get good items for free but never one so long-winded. This one includes skimming you of your Lindens too. Beware, sellers.

Wow, just wow. What a thread

If I were Avawyn I would delete my Avatar and go on with an alt, because this is just too hilarious to forget...

Many people here making money from their business, some more then others, and none of them are professionals. Guys (and gals) close down your shops because you haven't got a clue! Forget about the money you make, Ava decided, bow to her and stop your silly excuses for businesses.

May I remind you people that I am lying down with a hernia at the moment and laughing hurts?

By the way, I was thinking where I heard that term fluffy before... too bad this is a pg forum

What I wanna know is, where is *MY* Nobel Prize for figuring out how to make black socks? Because I figured out how to do that in my first hour on SL. I must be zee soopah-geenyus of SL!

Absolutely. Thats the kind of magazine I be most interested in reading.

I'm kinda wondering if she's wearing the right shoe bases.

I have cut back SL spending as well, but it really isn't out of a need to spend less on my part. It's just that after almost 2 years, I've bought just about every thing I want. Instead of spending thousands on a shopping outing it's usually hundreds. There comes a point where not many new items interest me. Plus things don't wear out so there is no need to replace anything. I'd spend more if there were more things to buy.

Maybe things don't wear out but surely you don't wear something more than once.

That's a myth. We have our favorites. You just don't wear them repeatedly amongst the same circles.

Now where were we? Oh yes...

So are sales plummeting?

Why do you mix with circles? Aren't people good enough? Hoola-hoop clubs maybe?

The Olympics

Ah yes. You don't need much in the way of clothing for that.

The Winter Olympics

Avawyn, from what I can gather, you have moved from looking at opening your own store, to becoming a consultant, and now onto becoming a style magazine publisher. At least this shows that the more you expose yourself to other peoples thoughts, agreeable or not to you personally, the more you are thinking about what it is that you want. So thats good.

There is a SecondLife style magazine that is exactly what I believe you now aspire to. A magazine which is worth having a look at I think. (We not supposed to pimp places here in the forums so I just say the magazines name has the bird of peace in it, rhymes with love and is free. You can find it inworld in Search. I just disclaim here that I have no association at all with this magazine other than just being one of its many readers.)

This magazine has an enormous readership of tens of thousands. Probably hundreds of thousands since its inception. One key to this, is that the magazine addresses and fully meets the demand for 3D viewing of clothes, which as you have come to discover is far better than 2D viewing ya. What you see is what you get. As opposed to what you get is maybe what you see.

Its a very innovative concept, as its not only a magazine its also a walkin wardrobe. Where the readers can not only see magazine content, they can also try the content on their own avatars and keep even if they like. A reward you might say that the magazine gives to its readers.

And apparently there is a long line of designers waiting, praying even, for advertorial space to become available to them in this magazine.

Like all quality magazines that value their readers, the publishers exercise firm editorial control over content. Another key to its success. And as the months and years have gone by, this magazine has gone from strength to strength in both quality of content and readership.

Is quite brilliant really I think.

If you gathered that just from this thread, I think you are mistaken. To be fair to Avawyn, she hasn't mentioned opening her own store, and it was me who brought up the consultant idea, by writing that it sounds like what she might be setting up. As far as I know from this thread, she was doing the research, apparently for the magazine idea, before she entered this thread.

=)

Is really interesting how this affects people and influences what they do and where they go. I have two places ya (not shops). They both exactly the same in the way of content and function. They mirror images of each other. One is described with a pretty word "dressing" the other with a notso pretty word "fitting". Nearly twice as many people goto the prettier-described one than the other.

And ya I like pretty stores as well and there are lots of stores that are minimalist yet are very pretty also. Its more about ambience for me I think. How it feels. It took me a longtime to work out why I feel more comfortable in one store and less so in another and yet from first glance they fairly much the same in layout and content.

What I worked out eventually was that I feel more comfortable in shops that had been made well. Little things about the shop itself that you dont always see immediately but you just sense something that distracts your attention subliminally almost. Things like display board grids for example. They presented as being aligned in some shops but some of the boards arent quite straight. A shop wall made of a 10x10 section and a 5x10. Both use the same texture to present a continuous surface. But they both textured at 1.0 so they dont quite match. One part of the wall is slightly more stretched than the other. Is subtle sometimes, but stuff like this seems to register in my subconcious and puts me off a little bit. Same with fittings that have little gaps in them or pieces that dont quite align fully. And other stuff like this.

Lots of it is subtle and I miss it on a conscious level mostly and yet it affects me and makes me less comfortable. So I dont stay there as long or buy as much as I do in other places.

PS. I not been to your shop yet so I maybe go as soon as I get a chance. Lots people here say you have good stuff so thats worth a visit. I like good stuff =)

I apologise to Avawyn for this should I have read her wrong.

Is just that it seems to me that as the thread developed Avawyn took on board more of what other people were saying and her postings reflected that. Even if it did get a bit robust at time. Not everything other people offered, but enough for me to think that she was developing a pathway for herself. And as often happens when we do this then somethings crystallise for us and we take them on board. And others things we dont. And we drop somethings that we first thought of and move on to other and better ideas and ways of doing things.

ya

or the drugs start working and we go nappy time

Ooooooooooooooh you put into words what's been running through my head!

(Minus the hernia. Hope you're feeling better soon!)