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

Actually go to a Wal-Mart, and look around. You don't have to buy anything, just look, and listen. That's how you learn things.

I was actually thinking about this earlier....

AC's employees obviously have to be in world to build this stuff, right? I wonder how they feel, once they're done working for the day, and go shopping, and see comparable stuff selling for 40 times what they're charging... that would make me feel pretty shitty, like "dude, does AC think we're sweat shop slaves or what?" I wonder if her employees buy the L10 stuff, or if they shop for "real" stuff made by "real" people?

This one baffles me even more:

http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=379911

So she is hoping to charge people 10,000L for them to design her furniture for her and in return you get 50 copies, thus charging you 200L each, and then selling them for 10L to everyone else.

Anyone think this is a good deal?

Given the number of accomplished content creators who frequent RA, I wonder what you guys/gals think of a concept like this in general. When I began my business back in January, and even today, there seemed to be a reasonable average cost of a typical furniture piece of a given style and quality.

As a putter togetherer of furniture prims myself, and someone who has put an enormous amount of time and effort into the project, to suddenly find myself potentially competing with something like this really kinda knocks the wind out of the sails. Not that it's really competition - I would never make tier or even come close to breaking even if I were to price my product in such a way. As it is, I now have to constantly worry if all that time and effort is for nothing - why would somebody buy my product for $L250-300 when a piece of similar quality can be had for $L10?

I'm sure the intention was honorable, I'm just not so sure that the net effect is going to be all that positive in the long run. If this idea really catches on, could it actually make a considerable dent in the economy? The furniture market naturally follows the prefab house market.. and I suspect there is still considerable spending in these areas - both in Linden dollars as well as (for many) the USD spent to acquire them.

I have some real concerns about this - just as I have concerns every time Walmart attempts to convince our local planning commission that they would be a welcome and productive member of our little mountain community in Big Bear.. when the reality is they would put 80% or more of our local retail proprietors out of business.

Please be constructive and polite.

No, her intention was to f*** people over and it failed.

I go to Wal-Mart when I have a biological urge to have children. I look and listen, and the urge goes right away.

She has opened a factory in China to produce those 10L items, sounds like a sweat shop from the start.

She also has an office in Germany where the creators are paid a decent living wage and presumably have some spare time on their hands to go shopping in SL when they're done with work...

Actually - read that snippet of hers again

I dont think she says that she has an office in germany.

She just says her Employees in china have good working conditions by German Standards.

Is that Post War Germany?

Pre-war - shortly after the Huns arrived in the Roman era.