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Lucky Merit
Unfeted
Join date: 2 May 2006
Posts: 58
07-26-2006 17:05
From: Dmitri Polonsky
The problem with your theory here is if you choose to distribute someone elsde's creations in real life, if you want to sell five of them you ahve to buy five of them from the original source. What you are doing is buying one and they only get a one time price for it. You take it and make as many coipies as you wish and sell those competing with the original creator. Now if you make a deal with them allowing them a certain percentage of the gros income per sale I am sure there'd be rersolution, however what you are doing atm sounds very akin to the same thing we find in a certain overstock store in SL, and prety much just constitutes theft of other's creations and work.


Dmitri, I think you misunderstood the situation here. The OP does buy every single item he re-sells. He's not copying anything. The creators haven't allowed full copy/full transfer rights to these items. That would not be wise. and if they had, it would be within the rules (but not very nice) to copy and sell the copies. As he's doing it, there's nothing wrong with what he's doing, IMHO. Personally, I'd communicate with the various creators before I resold their work, but that's the only think I'd do differently.

OP, sorry you ran into a stinker. Sounds like what you're doing can be very beneficial for both you, the creators and the SL community at large.
Cocoanut Koala
Coco's Cottages
Join date: 7 Feb 2005
Posts: 7,903
07-26-2006 17:59
From a post in the other thread, I think I understand this now, the desire not to have your things resold.

It's kind of like your baby, your creation. Your own heart and soul, as it were. Kind of like how some artists refuse to sell their works during their lifetimes.

But I would say, if someone feels that way about their works, they need to not put transfer on them. You can always offer to help a customer who wants to give something as a gift by letting them pay you and then delivering the object.

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Jopsy Pendragon
Perpetual Outsider
Join date: 15 Jan 2004
Posts: 1,906
07-26-2006 20:53
From: Starax Statosky
I wouldn't go buy an Xbox and then sell it for more than the RRP to somebody who didn't know any better. I also wouldn't be happy if somebody did this to me.

Has the world gone nuts? Why aren't people seeing that this isn't right. Is this all some kind of joke that you're playing on me? Am I dreaming?

Stop it now! You've had your fun!


hrmm.... my point was this kind of thing happens in RL quite frequently without people getting bent out of shape over it.

I can understand why scalping tickets is bad... because scalpers could, theoretically, monopolize the distribution by buying up all the assigned seats and then be able to extort their prices.

But people will buy unfinished condos, never move into them, then when the condo is built, they'll sell it at a marked up price.

Vending machines charge more for products that are purchased wholesale or from discount membership stores.

Importers, antique dealers, used book sellers.

I dunno why reselling a no-copy item for a profit (or a loss) has people in such a tizzy. Rig your vending machines to charge repeat customers more or something. :)

Sorry I'm being so dense and all about this. :)


CODE

   default {
 	on_change(integer n) {
 		if ( llGetOwner() != "Jopsy Pendragon" ) {
 			 string name=llGetObjectName();
 			 llSetObjectName("A previously-owned " + name );
 			 llDeleteInventory(llGetScriptName());
 		}
 	}
   }


(or something similar in code that might actually compile)

Sadly, probably requires the object to be mod, which means the next owner could take the name change back out. ;)
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