How do the shnpping sites send items to people inworld?

How do the shopping sites send items to people inworld?

Are the shopping sites able to send items that are no-transfer?

They use llGiveInventory I believe, and yes, you can give no-transfer items that way (just like you can with any other vendor).

Not sure if this is what your looking for, but for sites like secondserver, if you want to list on their site, they give you a "magic box" that (i think, never used secondserver myself) you put copies of your items in, and this communicates with the website. Someone buys your item on the site, signal goes to box, box sends item to customer.

Yes, as described already, and to elaborate, they use email to communicate with the inworld delivery box telling it what and to whom to llGiveInventory.

Thanks, these are the sorts of answers I am looking for.

I am trying to figure out what the problem is in being able to easily give someone a free, no-transfer object.

It seems to me to a solveable problem, using the same sort of method that shopping sites use to give copies of purchasde item.

I imagine I must just be missing something.

Here's a sketch of what I am thinking about.

The freebie-maker registers with the freebie server, and gets the magic box to put their freebies in.

The freebie-server will give anyone a copy of its freebie-distributor scripted object. I get one.

To give out a copy of the no-transfer freebie, I pull out the freebie-distributor, tell it what to give and to who.

The freebie-distributor contacts the freebie-server with the info.

The freebie server contacts the appropriate magic box, which gives the recipient the no-transfer item.

The person passing out the freebies, and the recipient, don't have to go to any third party websites or do anything troublesome when the freebie handout session.

Unless I am very much mistaken, you do not want to give away "no transfer" items, but rather "no transfer for next owner" items.

You cannot give away or sell "no transfer" items without bypassing official Linden security measures, but if you have a single "copy, transfer, no-copy for next owner, no-transfer for next owner" item, you can give away or sell as many as you like, but the next owner cannot transfer the item to anyone else [without "cheating"] or make extra copies for himself/herself.

If the object you have was already "no-copy, no-transfer" when you got it, then immediately stop trying to give away copies and go ask the previous owner for a copy that you can distribute. Sidestepping the built-in restrictions on this constitutes, at best, rudeness, and at worst, TOS violations.

If I am off-base with regard to what you are doing, I apologize. If I am correct, then this is something that someone should have told you long ago. I hope I am wrong in this regard!

wow talk about a 'bad hair day'
oh Sue this sounds interesting i have lots
of freebies ive made and been thinking
of making a freebie vendor... but i like this
idea sounds great keep us informed
-LW

Am I wrong? Please tell me I`m wrong! Please? --or if I`m right, please tell me that. I hope I`m wrong! It`s just that I`ve recently read a few threads about how content creators were having their content sold by unauthorized people who should know better but don`t. I hope my reaction was an over-reaction, but with that fresh in my mind I felt I had to make sure. Unfortunately, text communication like this tends to strip away the subtleties that voice communication provides, so my post may have come off sounding more "stick up my **ahem**" than intended. If so, I`m sorry.

Ack! I`m starting to turn pathetic. Anyway, no insult intended, and none taken.

Toodle-oo!