REzzing Vendors and Vendors in General

I have been setting up rez-vendors because my place is getting full - but it appears that many people appear not to know how to use them.

does anyone else have this experience?

I could have an item in the rez vendor on display for a lower price - and right next to it the standard prim item for sale with a higher price, and people will buy the higher priced one.

Since Vendors are so common in SL, shouldn't it be wise for LL to include a Vendor Tutorial at Orientation for new members?

Most operate in the identical fashion, so it would be easy to set up

If the choice is between a prim set for sale or a vendor I'll happily buy the prim and not from the vendor, even if the vendor is cheaper.

Vendors are simply not nearly as reliable, far too many have gladly taken my L$ but gave nothing in return where a prim set for sale never fails.

Yep. At least until scripts can get some kind of transactional call-back of success or failure of llGiveInventory() (and, please, llGiveMoney()), vendors simply *can't* be that reliable. Even then, of course, there's always some doubt as to whether a vendor is even designed to actually deliver any goods, or if it's just a scripted bandit, so unless it's part of a serious, reputable enterprise, there's a certain leap of faith required of a purchaser.

Now, of course, it is possible for a (very specially scripted) rezzing vendor to rez items where the prim assembly itself is for sale. This is a little bit tricky because the vendor has to tell the item to llDie() before rezzing another one, and that would be a Very Bad Thing to happen to a purchaser after they got their item rezzed back at home, so the llDie script has to know when to delete itself, etc.

In my experience, a customer will always choose to see the rezzed item sitting there rather than one on a rez vendor. Sometimes the rez is slow on the vendor, im not always sure of teh size since it is elevated and that messes up my perspective etc.

The rez is fast - the product is displayed in a better way than as if it is just sitting there, because you can make nice backdrops and vignettes to display the product in a more realistic setting. It is definetly 1000 times better than a flat panel display one where all yo get is a picture..


as far as people not trusting the vendors, If I go to a store and buy a bunch of stuff there, and see a rez vendor there, I would have no reason to believe that the vendor was some kind of scam.

If you purchase something from a Vendor and it were not to deliver, wouldn't you contact the owner of the vedor and say .. yo .. what's up? I know I would and I have been contacted on the rare occasison where I made a mistake when stuffing the vendor.

my point is that people seem to miss the benefits of these. There are some places that could not do without... most Prefab House Stores use them and nobody appears to have a problem with them there.


and.. yes it would be cool if they would rez a item that could be purchased directly, because it would be nice to have all the sales transactions show up on your Transaction History with the item name rather than just a generic Object pays one

i Sell buildings. Customers can rez them, take a tour and buy from the vendor. The vendor I have used for the last year or so is the Webb Vendor. It's not a temp rez vendor. I wanted to get one that was modifiable and copyable so i could mod it to make it simple and easy for customers in addition to making it blend in with my shop. I have come accross a few tricky vendors in world but generally the owner has a sign up with opperating instructions so maybe stick up a sign see if that helps.

I also sell my buildings and I use a temp rez vendor, although I may make them non-temp. I use a plugin for hippoVEND that allows me to rez from a base not connected to the vendor. It is fairly reliable, but like all things, when SL is borked, watch out. Most people will respond and handle a borked vendor, all it takes is an IM or notecard.

As a customer I don't like vendors because the rez is slow (I think this depends on client-side lag, which depends on the user's computer hardware - my computer is old) and also I find vendors confusing to use. Sometimes I'm not sure exactly what I'm buying, being as that there are several pictures all over the vendor, and scrolling through the items can be confusing as well. I'm always worried I'll end up purchasing the wrong thing.

Why would you have them on sale at different prices?

there is usually a transition period before I delete the regular display after putting them in a vendor - while I ponder if I should delete it or not.. haha .. and as items age or are not selling, sometimes the price goes down, more of a coincidence and I picked up on it.

We are mainly discussing rez vendors... so when you do click buy, you are purchasing the item currently being displayed on the rezzing platform.

I use vendors that have a huge center Display that shows the picture (or texture) of the item and to the sides, several tiny preview displays that are used for scrolling and previewing..

and.. the BIG arrows that go Forward and Back which load a new page of items.