Yikes, what a mess. The problem with starting over as a new account is, if you were to use any of your old designs/textures ever again, the fashionistas would start accusing you of stealing from yourself on their blogs, because they wouldn't know you were you. Then you would have to explain things in order to not tank the reputation of your new AV, and you'd be right back where you started with the guy harassing you.
YaY...well I have been filing AR for about a week now, enlisted the help of loyal customers and friends in my quest to get this guy to leave me alone, and it finally worked. LL must have contacted him and issued him a warning or suspension or something, because the false information on his profile has been removed. I changed the name of my store, posted to my blog, made an announcement, and things seem to be fine...my customers totally understood where I was coming from and helped out with the AR's.
He still has his land named the same as my previous store, but from what it seems right now...his scheme to put me out of business has kind of backfired on him a little...him putting all those camping bots on his land to boost his traffic has actually ended up with customers going there and realizing they got the wrong spot, and then coming to my store. So my sales have actually gone way up since this whole mess has happened.
In any case, I am muted, so I cant tell him "thanks for the free advertising"...
I just wonder, if someone used all this negative energy to make someone miserable, what if this person actually turned it around and did something positive...its a shame really.
And...I am not making an ALT account and going undercover and doing all that, I just changed the name of the store, and hopefully he wont change the name of his land to "PINK COUTURE"...lol!
Thanks again everyone for your advice,
<3 Vanya
p.s.
Sorry for not answering the SL branding...that can be found here:
http://secondlife.com/corporate/brand/
