Packaged Or Not? Buying items

I always use folders but in fatpacks, I put actual boxes. The reason for this is because when the items go into the box from a folder, there is no folder there, just the list of items. So if an outfit consists of 5 parts (just a good number for example) and there are 4 complete outfits in the fatpack, then I believe the buyer would receive a folder containing 20 things, all in alphabetical order (in other words, not grouped by color or whatever). The first time I bought a fatpack of something in a folder, I looked at the like 50 things in the folder, went home, and changed my fatpacks from folders to boxes.

*grins* Ah, those were the times! Good thing is that a) default attachment point is now the right hand, no longer the head, and b) you can choose attachment point when right-clicking in inventory and going for "attach to".

lol, wow thank you it seems folders is the way to go, I had recently begun doing just this so people could see what is in them instead of just one item... Great response thanks guys!

If the items are copyable, then I much prefer having a packaged master copy that I can rez over and over again as needed to unpack a fresh and unaltered set.

If the item is no-copy, or has no-copy elements, I would just as soon get a folder delivered to my inventory.

That's a good point, Ceera.

What I do with copy/mod items is place a copy in a folder marked ORIGINALS DO NOT @#$^% WITH THESE ONES!!!!! which has cut down on user error considerably.

Folders, definitely. And especially appreciated is a logical name to the contents. Ex: "Starry Night Dark Blue Evening Gown" versus something obsure like "Flight of Fancy Dress", or even worse a folder for a clothing outfit named "Cynthia" or something.

Both have their advantages - a folder makes it easier to see what you've got, a box only takes up one spot in inventory until I have time to mess with it. For many things, though, a folder probably makes the most sense. (I've been a renter, then a landowner, for so long I sometimes forget not everyone has a nice private skybox to unpack things in.)

I've started saving pretty boxes in a special folder so I can use them as decorations at Christmastime. Weird, I know, but some of them are lovely.



Haven't had that happen yet, thank goodness. BUT... some designers' boxes take up a mess of prims! I was floored the first time I tried to open a box from some store and couldn't rez it because the parcel was full. And I think I had something like 30 prims free!. A nice 3-4 prim shopping bag would have been fine, if a box wasn't good enough...

i prefer folders or just the item...unpackaged with a descriptive namen I can use for searching.

Personally, that's not really an annoyance at all when purchasing copies of rezzed items displayed like that. It's when people use the pay dialog with a packaged item when buy would work even better that gets me annoyed.. especially if there's something I want to verify the permissions on before I buy it, or I wont buy it. I've been had too many times by vendor pics saying one type of perms, only to find the item actually has something different. I'm also not a big fan of vendors dispensing a single package just so the customer has to deal with their fancy unpacker script. Far too jaded to consider that any kind of feature lol.