I hate to ask this here, but I want a quick answer

Too bad you can't burn any of her cheap furniture to keep the house warm.



Yes. It is all about me. It always has been.

The "freebie" or "almost freebie" furniture out there pales in comparison.. both in quality and quantity.. to what ACS has dumped, in mass quantity, into the 10Linden line on SLX. I never felt threatened by freebies, and never had any reason to. This is a much different beast, and it has many rows of sharp teeth.

How hard to turn 'commerical' into 'residential'? Seems to me people are much more likely to pay a lot for good residential land with a nice view.

The majority of SL residents aren't here to create or sell anything. They want to play house. To play house they need land, but land is so expensive it's hard to afford it AND content.

If people complain to you that they cant afford one off purchases because their land costs so much, and you are the person providing them with that land, do you lower your land prices or do you make some cheap shit for the complainers?

I am uncertain if my perspective and situation is rare or common or what, but here's my two Lindens:

While not wealthy, money is not an issue for me in SL, although I am as careful as possible regarding tier and the 1.5 sims I co-own is quite enough at present, thanks. BUT, I really don't care THAT much what a piece of furniture or outfit costs me providing I feel I'm getting value for my money.

What is value? Looks good, I like it, reasonably priced, and if furniture, must be low prim.

Since coming to SL at the beginning of this year I have shopped -- a LOT. And I mean a lot. I learned the value of prim conservative furniture, and sought out creators who struck a great balance between beautiful pieces and reasonable prims.

AC's 10L furniture is NOT competition to most content creators. The pieces are sterile, high prim, and quite frankly, not quality.

Also -- do people really want to buy furniture that is so easily obtainable and potentially in everyone else's homes? Isn't it fun to showcase something that yes, cost more, but because it cost more, is far more unique and all your visitors can think "Wow, that's a great item!"

Of course there will always be those who don't care about any of the above and see only price and perhaps a liking for the piece. That's fine. But the passionate of us in SL like to play, like what's unique, quality, fun, and will support others of like mind.

So really, AC is not competition for most content creators. I'll pay a little more for something I know is lower prim, higher quality and that isn't going to be in everyone else's home. This is our world, not AC's.

No need to worry.

Cheers.

Heh, I only tuned in on Rush Limbaugh once, by accident. He's amusing.

I have no problem with any legitimate beefs, with Wal-Mart or anyone else. I do have a problem with illegitimate attacks, and with scape-goating, both of which evidently pass for intelligent discourse among a lot of people who really should know better. There's far too much of that around, and on a lot of subjects besides Wal-Mart. By the way, I've heard a lot about these legions of family businesses Wal-Mart is said to have put out of business - but so far never from anybody who owned one. Have you found any in your community? I'd be interested. (I think, if you look into it, you will find the primary opposition traces back to the supermarket and retail workers' unions, who foam at the mouth and chew on the furniture over Wal-Mart's adamant anti-union policy.)

Aye, there's the rub. And has me thinking now in a different direction. I hate to say it, but yes, even with some beautiful mainland areas, it is slowly dwindling. I co-own 1.5 sims and in the past week I have acquired a Gorean wanna be neighbour who has a million textures and camping spots making it impossible to fly around that side of my sim, and RM, the AdFarmer who buys up plots next to Linden Road has moved into my 'hood.

Come February I'm not sure if I'll be packing in all the mainland and selling it off and then finding a place to rent or trying to find a way to make an Island work.

HOWEVER, I did inadvertently end up on some AC land last night and between no fly zones (which I know how to set my options to ignore) and BAN LINES, I was severely frustrated in traversing the area. The only people who must want to live on AC land are those who really really want their privacy and aren't creating to share with others. Which is fine... but again... where's the appeal for those of us who are here to build, play, share and have fun?

I'm not trying to slag on AC, I really am not, but it's clear that she has her target audience. The question is, who comprises of the highest percentage in SL? Cookie cut outs who want to play house privately, or the explorers?

*still pondering*

I don't live in a community where unions generally have much influence. We have two supermarkets and a K-Mart. The supermarkets we consider a necessary evil. People fought tooth and nail to keep K-Mart out. Every other retail establishment in our community is local, family owned. This includes hardware, furniture, apparel, electronics, appliances, lumber, just about every durable good you could think of. A Walmart presence here would destroy the majority of these businesses inside of a year.. and eventually probably even K-Mart.

I know this is getting way OffTopic, and I'm sorry. I've said my piece, and taken a little too much liberty to do so.. off to other things..

Peace

I am an avowed WM hater, because of it's Anti Unionism primarily, but also for many other reasons, some which have been notated here. I refuse to enter one of thier stores, I take Mom to one , I wait in the car. But I do agree with Har that they can be over demonized, they are simply using many of the business practices that the Great American businessmen used over 100 years ago. In certain areas they are a Godsend for sure, for workers and shoppers. Here however, I do see them as the equivalent to a swarm of locusts. The parking lots at the Walmarts where I live are full of BMW's. Lexus' and Hi Priced SUV's, people who don't have to shop at WM for economic reasons, but rather that the small local stores are disappearing. Luckily, here in Jersey, the unions have been able to keep WM out of the Supermarket End. None of those Super WM's are here. It's not just Walmart, all the big box stores are doing it, it's just that WM does it on a larger scale, is ruthlessly efficient, and gets the Media Attention.

I suspect a Wal-Mart in your area might well kill off the K-Mart, especially if it's much like the one around here, and a Sam's Club would hurt the supermarkets. But if your folks are surviving K-Mart, my guess is they are made of tough enough stuff to survive Wal-Mart too. Kinda like the way the Anshe Chung conversation is going here in SL - and perhaps for similar reasons, i.e. offering in their lines what Wal-Mart doesn't. Cheers.

I had a good chuckle over this myself.

Except that isn't the side of the store that has people concerned; I don't think anyone can credibly accuse them of anti-competetitive consumer price gouging.

The troubles are at the loading docks on the back which you can't see through personal observation. If you make widgets and want to sell them through Wal-Mart, you can expect them to dictate your pricing, manufacturing, and even force you into collusion with your former competitors. That was why I called WM a monopsony. And these practices, although they chafe our concepts of free markets, don't have laws or enforcement suitable to deal with it. The deep cost is not to other retailers, but the death of manufacturers attributable to these practices.

http://harpers.org/archive/2006/07/0081115

They are famous for getting suppliers to work with them, then changing the terms and often requiring they don't do business with anyone else.

For what it's worth, I am a fairly new user and had never heard of this 10L line before, so I went and had a look. I only saw two things that caught my eye, but the prim counts are so high I would never use them. I have seen much better furniture in world that uses far fewer prims. I'd much rather pay an additional 50 to 75 cents in real money to have furnishings that don't kill my prim budget.

SJ

I have. Use to shop there regularly. I also have spoken to Wal-Mart employees who have jobs there but have no other choice. They really enjoy working very hard to barely be able to survive.

In the 40's automakers were the biggest employer in the U.S. Today the biggest employer is Wal-Mart. That sure says a lot about the state of our nation and the two class society we have become.

So, I have stopped, looked and listened and therefore have no intentions of stepping foot in Wal-Mart ever again.

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Jesus, her furniture is too high prim for me.

Well this is neither constructive nor polite but I'm about to go grocery shopping so am girding my mental loins against the huddled masses buying Halloween candy.

I think the L$10 store is lame bullshit and Anshe has no right to dictate the future of the SL economy.

She may have the right, but the capability? Nah. Oh so where is this store? I'd like to make fun of it too but can't find it.

And who says there's no such thing as blatent hypocrisy in business?I can just feel the love and respect.

Here I am honey, look at me. This is all I have to say on the subject, *No Longer in Business*

Capitalism is just Darwinian - it's just the way it is. The more adaptive shark eats up the little fishies. No surprises there. But people seem to forget that choices do exist - sure, if your shop is put out of business by WM, you could... could to to school to become something in incredible demand, such as an ultrasound tech, like some Russian physicians I know, who couldn't transfer their credentials here. Most people would rather kvetch. As for the analogy between AC and WM - WM would fail if their stuff was junk. I shop there all the time.

Kvetch kvetch kvetch.

hey, if i can get $10L furniture, i'm going to. i sell most of my clothes for $10L..... i see no sense in charging more, unless it has a lot of alpha and prims (obviously those are more work to create).

You can't convince me that the difference of paying L$200 (approx US $0.75) versus L$10 (approx US $0.04) on a few one-time purchases is going to be the deciding factor if one is going be able to afford buying/renting land and paying recurring monthly tier/rent.

Huh. Anshe CHungs L$10 items are almost all furniture so far: living room, dining room, office. *yawn*

Nope I was not complaining. He/she wanted to know if anyone knew anyone that had lost their business, I was merely answering the question.

consumer to creators: your work means nothing to me; therefore you should give it to me for free or as near-free as possible because i want it (but it means nothing to me, remember that). also, i would like the marketplace to be free of competition - without a yardstick for comparison, you will continue driving manufacturing standards down and i wouldn't know (or care to know) the difference.

creators/engineers/artists to consumer: ...

retailer to consumer: your life means nothing if you don't shop here!! bigger penis!! better orgasms!!

no answers... just thoughts.

sorry; having fun

AC is just getting started. There is probably less than the mentioned 100 Certified (LOL) people creating content. Probably 1 or 2 and be added as demand grows.
And yeah, 10 grand to do the initial content design FOR them, thats a good one.

Seriously, this can only grow from Annies point of view. Her own sims and islands with her own malls and content. Sounds like that should have the package rounded up nicely.
Of course everybody won't do there shopping locally but a large amount will.

And you [OP] asked for a quick answer..

2 aussie cents worth (almost equal to US cents but not quite)