Selling clothes on SL Boutique

How many of you do this and do you find its a good way to sell your things?

I used to.
Unfortunately they broke the site when they removed categories and it never worked too well afterwards.

When you list something new its great as it appears on the front page. But as soon as it leaves that page its pretty much lost in a system with thousands of other items.

This can be said of all shopping sites to some degree though.

Don't invest too much time in them, buy the largest plot of land you can afford - even if its 512 and advertise new products on these forums.
You will earn much more this way and you wont be paying a middle man commission.

I'm getting ready to set up shop, and I've noticed something some designers do that I think I will follow suit with. Since permissions are such a big issue, some people choose to offer the no transfer items in their store, while hosting the gift versions on SLboutique and/or SLexchange. I think this may kill two birds with one stone, giving you a little bit of extra exposure and providing a convience for your customers. It doesn't hurt to try, right?

I would recommend this system for people who want to sell non-transfer items as gifts. It works great and it very easy to set up.

http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=38860

You are nuts, SLEX is a pain to set up.

SL Boutique > SLEX.

SLEX needs to load 3 different pages before you can add one item, where boutique can do many of them on one page.

I recieve 2x the amount of sales on SL Boutique vrs SLEX.

Better designed site.

When shopping, I find that the better quality items are on Boutique. If they are on SLEX they are impossible to find.

But when your customers can't find your items after you add them, what difference does it make how long it took you to set it up? seriously.

Going by searh results of slBoutique there is literally _one_ female skin maker in whole SL selling her wares. And creators like "Canimal Zephyr" or "Torrid Midnight" don't exist to their search engine, even though there's a few items (fraction of their full offer available once you actually manage to get their name displayed on some product so you can click it thus searching by their internal id) ... put on sale by "Canimal" and "Torrid". Etc, and so on.

For that matter "Luth Brodie", "Luth" or "Brodie" apparently isn't selling anything on slB either. Each results in "Your search yielded no results. Try a more general query."

The search on slB been broken since the site was revamped, and remains just as broken even today (that's examples i tried literally moment ago)

If you click on SLB stores there is a list of every single person who sells on SLB or you can type the URL like this:
http://www.slboutique.com/Torrid_Midnight
http://www.slboutique.com/Canimal_Zephyr

how is one harder than the other? its the same thing. download a box, fill it with stuff, add them to the site.
The only pain with slx really is for shoppers who have to go to a terminal to upload cash rather than doing it from anywhere.

slx doesnt require you to click your box after every change.
slx lets you use surls and hyperlinks
slx doesnt give me a script error/crash in FF when it is loading the page of my items for editing
slx's front page doesnt stop adding new items for no reason
slx doesnt over compress already compressed images
slx has a forum to get help if needed

Aye, but this requires me to either know the internal setups of Boutique site along with full name of seller (so i can use direct URL) or to hunt down that one specific name in the page that lists approx. 1500 of them. Am just puzzled why the search engine seems completely unable to do that menial work for me when i put what am looking for in the most logical place, i.e. the search field .. when the competition is doing such search by default (lists possible matching merchant names before the item names) so it's not exactly something revolutionary ^^; Would be really nice if it could be added to slB ^^;;

I'm on both sites and fine that SLX is way more negotiable in terms of finding products, and layout. While it takes a couple of pages to upload an item, when uploading on SLB I have to refresh anyways every few items just so it'll actually go through. And it doesn't use all teh information I put in. Nor does it display properly when viewed without a refresh. And sorting by no means works when I go looking through items. SLX notifies me when I get a sale whereas SLB did not (SLB's owner and I still haven't figured out why). SLX just seems a lot more user-friendly interface wise for me.

I don't sell clothes, but I sell other things in world and on SLB and SLEx.

I find them both fairly easy to put stuff on to, and although there was a period when my sales on SLB fell away badly (shortly after the take over) recently it's been catching up.

The thing that is most odd for me is some things do a lot better on one site, and others much better on the other. The pages, prices etc. are as close to identical as it's possible to manage.

The "shopping for gifts" thing makes sense (even if at least one person bought through SLEx a no-transfer item and complained he couldn't give it as a gift in world!) but it's also a good point for advertising things for people at work etc. They might not buy then and there, but they do consider it.

I would buy land if I had the money, at the moment I am a bit strapped for cash. I think I will try both and see if I can sell stuff. Eventually I will buy some type of land or rent some from a friend of mine. Who knows! thanks for the info guys

The thing with SLB and search is that you have to set tags. The better you are at setting search terms, the better results your potential customers will get.

My best advice (which I am following as we speak) is to set everything appropriate term you can think of, then do some sample searches - then go back and add terms.

- SLb continued to work flawlessly in 8 months of inactivity, without touching the box once.
- SLex didn't.

Thats why I added "Jennyfur" and "Deadly Nightshade" to all of my tags. I know SLB is still working on improving the search functionality as well.

anyone know how to sell outfits together in the SL boutique

Put them in a box with the whole outfit in it. Sell the box. Associate it with nice pictures of the product rather than the box.

How do I put things in a box though? (I am still pretty new to the game)

sad thing is i've sold more with slboutique than i have with slexchange. i guess it just depends on the popularity and need for your items.

Katanzia to put things in a box, rez a cube by right clicking on land and hitting the "create" button on the pie chart. once you've rezzed your cube you'll have an editing box in your window. it has a more button and if the whole window is not shown press that. click the "contents" tab in that window, bring up your inventory, find the items you want to sell as a set, drag them all into the box, and there you have it

I am a buyer, not a seller, but I would like to throw my 2 cents in...

+ I *vastly* prefer SLExchange interface and search system.
+ I have found the ability to pay with paypal without the need to travel in-site sometimes useful

Where SLBoutique wins big time is that if you want to send an item as gift, the receiver does not need to have registered on the site (SLBoutique apparently queries the system periodically for new names).

I often use it to give stuff to newbies or people who does not even know that SLBoutique exist, and I find this pretty useful.

from purely a buyers point of view (ie i have never sold anything through either SLEX or SLB) I would have to say SLEX is much better than SLB when searching / browsing for things. I really only goto SLB if I have to and for general browsing SLEX wins hands down.

I used to sell on SLExchange, but haven't in a very long time, so I won't really compare the two sites since a lot may have changed.

I sell a lot through SLBoutique, and it definitely has some very handy features. Being able to send gifts to those unregistered with the site, as Pamar mentioned, is a big bonus, especially since No Transfer items can also be gifted this way. The Listing functions are easy to use, and it's pretty easy to navigate over all. I much preferred the site before the Tags were added, but it still serves its purpose pretty well.