Xstreet SL and OnRez to Join Linden Lab!

Hmmmm nobody forced the owners of Xstreet and Onrez to acquiesce to LL. Obviously these guys thought it was a good move to go with LL. I know many of you have your panties all up in a bunch because SL has not been performing well lately. But, it's quite silly to assume that everything LL touches will turn to utter crap.

Honestly, all you complainers need to band together, create your own shopping site. And, whenever LL comes around looking to buy it, JUST SAY NO! But, I guess since Xstreet and Onrez did not, lets all hate on LL!!!!

Should have seen this coming; from SL Exchange to XStreet to LL Monopoly. Can you say SELLOUTS!!!

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If you redo XStreet, make sure to include the following:

- OnRez looks better than XStreet, the site is much less crowded and "hectic".

- Add the OnRez Section of Freebies and make it easily accessible, like OnRez does with a click from the main page. While you are at it, you could do something that even OnRez has not done: make a seperate category for 0/1L demos and split it from the freebies. It annoys the hell out of me that demos are listed with freebies.

- Vendors: OnRez inworld vendor system and easy vendor package managment was the best part of OnRez and an innovative (not to mention simple and FREE) way for merchants to set up small stores quickly and without much fuzz. If this feature is deleted or will take a few months to integrate, you will damage the already crumbling SL economy even further.

f you are an OnRez shopper with a current balance, please transfer your account balances to a Second Life account before February 11, 2009.

I am sorry if this has been mentioned in the past posts but so many to read.

1. Onrez allows for resending non transfer items that don't make it to the customer, SLX has always made you fill in a support ticket within 7 days and then you are lucky if you get any response , that function has always been a number one for me to use Onrez.

2. Onrez added a function to their Kiosks to allow residents to click a button to be able to be gifted too, no need to register, it just wanted the key to know where to send , also Onrez usually has the residents key if they have been in world for a period of time without doing that, it is usually only brand new residents that need to...another plus.

3. Onrez Kiosks were owned by the residents , placed on their land by them so no need to submit a ticket and add someone to a group to plonk down something you couldn't move around at your need.

4. Onrez has the bulk edit where you can write all the text you need for numerous items, save then add pics, again a big plus.

5. Being able to type in a designers name John_Doe, at the end of the Onrez link and find out if one of your favourite stores has listings without having to go through everything else that xstreet deems a keyword, a HUGE PLUS .

6. having the ability to add alts to the one account so that residents dont have to log in and out to add items to their dropboxes another plus.

7. Vendors that you set up on the site and then use in world ( I know this one has been mentioned) but these vendors were multi vendors too, so people that could only afford to pay for smaller spaces could have multiple items out with permission of the landlord, thats putting smaller stores and newer designers out of business right there.

8. The ability to set up boxes that were given special permissions, meaning that if you had friends or workers that you didn't want to pay for your items they could be put in as being able to buy from those at no cost, this allowed staff to resend to customers that didn't get items in world, again HUGE PLUS.

9. No Commission for people starting out and wanting to just be able to get some kind of feel for what customer base they were aiming at, again huge plus.

10. Onrez promoting inworld tools that would benefit the retailers, such as the kiosks, boxes, scripts for unpacking, vendors, clickable signs that took you directly to the onrez listing page for that store, again HUGE PLUS and all free for the retailer.

XStreet SL

1. Stolen Content Stolen Content Stolen Content

2. Business in a Box = Stolen Content

3. UGLY pages, that even if you type in the name of a designer will give you everyone else that might have some partial keyword that the site considers your search.

4. Hard to navigate listing tools.

5. Kiosks you have to apply to have put on your land that you have no control over at all, that are purely to put money into and take money out of. YOU CAN however pay directly in people search to exchange street avatar ( for those that commented you had to find a kiosk )

6. Did I mention STOLEN CONTENT.

7. Having to register to receive items from people wishing to send you a gift, doesn't make it easy when they don't have an account already and you just on a whim want to send them something fab.

8. STOLLLLLLLEEEEENNNNNNNNNN CONNNNTTTEEEEENNNNNTTTTTTTTT

I really hope that the only upside I see is that you get rid of all the BIAB's and such Obvious stolen content from Xstreet first off, it is so in your face and so obvious what items are...as well as the fact that the items sold full perms are then resold by everyone that bought the originals, if someone is going to be banned for listing something twice, I think it should be looked into that you can see the same exact items sold by 50 different residents at different prices.

Please consider keeping Onrez online for longer than the few weeks you have said, it isn't enough time, you have only looked at the site as a site, you havent considered the amount of hours it takes to reset up all those drop boxes and listings.

Some designers have hundreds if not thousands of items on Onrez and if they aren't already on xstreet they have to move them, as well as totally be unable to do anything but that for possibly weeks.

Those that use the inworld vendors are also going to have to find suitable alternatives and list those as well , hippo from scratch a whole store worth of products can take days if not weeks to list and set up.

Please don't let us down again, I had so much faith in LL for the New Year

I have my own vendors....i could make these and sell them to all the unhappy On rez customers...but i wont....i will not capatalize on the misfortunes heaped on merchants already heavily invested in the existing vendor system.

Vendors: OnRez inworld vendor system and easy vendor package managment was the best part of OnRez and an innovative (not to mention simple and FREE) way for merchants to set up small stores quickly and without much fuzz. If this feature is deleted or will take a few months to integrate, you will damage the already crumbling SL economy even further.

Please give them a chance to respond. It is only about 5:30 am in California.