Xstreet SL and OnRez to Join Linden Lab!

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VAT.

i have been banned from xstreet for no reason because a customer of mine rated my items.... I am a real life compagny and I am discussed by this cheap attitude... they not only lost me www.hufschmidguitars.com but also Halo guitars authorised replicas.....

if anybody have experienced this before let me know by contacting me directly in secondlife... thanks

Hello again PatrickHufschmid,
>
> I am very sorry but you have violated our restriction against
> Alts/friends/family purchasing and rating your items once again.
> Therefore, we have been left with no choice but to disable all of
> your accounts.
>
> Your $0.92 USD has been converted in to L$, you have been given a
> refund for the unused portion of your product enhancements, and all
> of those L$ along with your L$ account balance have been returned
> to your SL Avatar. Unfortunately, because of the seriousness of
> this offense, your Xstreet accounts will be permanently disabled.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Tigress Stormwind
> Xstreet SL Service Manager

I don't really agree with linden labs shutting down onrez...I liked onrez better, it was just less popular. I also don't agree with the monopoly they're pulling, either....

In any case, I'd like x-streets to have the same posting features that onrez does...

Being able to chose a box name and edit multiple items at the same time the way onrez does is far better then having to find " add item " with difficulty on x-street.

So:

* Please transfer over the upload system and being able to edit multiple items at once.
* Also, Do NOT add my SLX balance to In world SL. I love having to have a seperate balance on SL... That would NOT help in the least bit.

Hi , I use both xstreetsl and shoponrez, and when i started the second one, I thought that the ability of adding tags to your item is a wonderful way to make them visible for your customers. I think it would be a pity to loose that.

VAT does not apply since we pay with Lindens... personally I think we should be able to pay Tier with Lindens, too.

I wonder what it will be like if Big Spaceship gets it's hands on it.

If we are to draw parallels between real life and this "second life", then the folks over at LL would be the equivalent of the federal government.

Like the real government, LL has moved from its basic services of providing infrastructure and defense to involving itself in commerce, the arts, education, etc. etc.

And like the federal government, LL has involved itself to the point that rather than providing good infrastructure and defense, it now provides everything in mediocre quality at best.

Take a look around. How much of the things you use were created by the government? Fast cars...fast computers...fashion...art...created by individuals, not the government.

When you can log back into SL, take a look around. The awesome avatars, builds, activities, events...they were created by individuals, not LL.

Look at the country today. It's imperfect. There's injustices, there's threats, the roads are potholed, the government is clogged. Yet, it's unique, and serves as a great conduit for the technology and innovation and art we know and love in our lives.

Now look at the grid itself. Though glitchy and crashy like today, one has to give credit where credit is due. There's nothing else like it, and though it has its faults, it still serves as the conduit for everything we know and love in our second life.

Now, imagine if both the government and LL focused their efforts on what they do best, providing that infrastructure, that conduit, that allows everyone else to innovate and thrive.

This is an open plea to LL (I've been making a similiar plea to my congressperson since I've been eligible to vote):

Linden Research, remember, "Your World. Your Imagination." Your residents have imagination beyond what any focus group or employee brainstorming session or meeting could ever bring. We've created mansions, palaces, revived the past, jumped into the future, rethought the present. We've created works of art that would rival anything in the highest of museums, we've created trinkets for a moment's amusement. We have the imaginations to do all of this, and more.

We don't need you creating art. We don't need you to build our house. We don't need you to sell our goods. We can do those ourselves, we have the knowledge and the innovation and the imaginations to do it.

We just need the conduit to do it. We can't truck our amazing works to market if the roads are potholed or closed. We can't paint when someone defaces the canvas. We can't innovate if our innovations are stolen by thieves.

Give us a clean, smooth road to let us go about safely and timely. Protect us from those that would do us harm. Protect our work from exploitation.

With your infrastructure and protection, and our innovation and imagination, we can build a marvel that will beckon others to join and allow all of us to grow and prosper.

So, tomorrow, if I can actually log in and stay in world for long enough... I am going to go remove all my free items from the GNUbie store, and then from the Stillman Bizarre, and then finally from my own store.

VAT does not apply since we pay with Lindens... personally I think we should be able to pay Tier with Lindens, too.

Not only the days of free competitive systems are gone through a rough transition.

The Lab has already sucessfully (!) messed up the layouts on BOTH websites.
Menus are in complete disorder now. Is that the way to go?

FIX IT!

So does this mean that nobody in my family group is allowed to buy my items on XStreet?
I have around 100 members since the group is used for land sales as well, this is insane.

apperently yes, and yes its totally insane... I have spent tousands of real money on xstreet in banners etc... I'm promoting this living shit as much as I can for secondlife in real life to bring more residents and in a matter of 4 seconds this is what happened to me for no reason...........

shame

edit: here is the proof


Hello PatrickHufschmid,

I fully understand that ''not going to name him'' may not be an alternate
account for you, but there is no question that they are a friend or
family member since you purchased something for them the month before
they bought and rated all of your products.

As a friend or relation of the merchant sharing system resources, we
feel that their relationship to the merchant disqualifies them from
being able to objectively rate and/or review a product. The ratings
system is for customers to express their opinion about the products they
buy, not to get testimonials from family and friends.

Regards,
--
Tigress Stormwind
Xstreet Service Manager

Funny how the lindens only reply most convinent questions...

So.... how will this affect non premium merchants? for example... will they still be able to send US to paypal? i mean nonpremium and NPIOF. Or you plan to force them to use CC?

apperently yes, and yes its totally insane... I have spent tousands of real money on xstreet in banners etc... I'm promoting this living shit as much as I can for secondlife in real life to bring more residents and in a matter of 4 seconds this is what happened to me for no reason...........

shame

edit: here is the proof


Hello PatrickHufschmid,

I fully understand that ''not going to name him'' may not be an alternate
account for you, but there is no question that they are a friend or
family member since you purchased something for them the month before
they bought and rated all of your products.

As a friend or relation of the merchant sharing system resources, we
feel that their relationship to the merchant disqualifies them from
being able to objectively rate and/or review a product. The ratings
system is for customers to express their opinion about the products they
buy, not to get testimonials from family and friends.

Regards,
--
Tigress Stormwind
Xstreet Service Manager[/QUOTE

Maybe tigresses friends and family cant be objective....mine can...thats how i develop my stuff for the market...they are my beta testers