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bilbo99 Emu
Garrett's No.1 fan
Join date: 27 Oct 2006
Posts: 3,468
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02-09-2007 01:41
From: bjStranger Forager Thank you to everyone who answered my questions so informatively. I know how things work now and feel confident about registering and shopping at SL Boutique. Whoa! Now I can shop while at work in RL! Oh good grief!! why did you have to go and tell me that for? .. <rummages through pocketsses> |
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Ace Albion
Registered User
Join date: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 866
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02-09-2007 07:23
From: Wildefire Walcott
Prices are identical between sites. That is, if a seller lists something on both sites, you, the consumer, will pay exactly the same at each site- as well as if you track the seller down in world and buy from her/his shop. The seller COULD charge more when listing at those sites, but I've never seen it happen.
I've done it on lower price items to mitigate the commission. Mostly I prefer people to buy in world because the transactions history is easier to deal with (SLB has snazzy sales charts but no downloadable raw data, SLEX at least has a pasteable csv thing...) I don't just use the transactions history to count my money  - if I find a problem with something it gives me a list of people to send updates/whatever to.
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Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
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02-09-2007 07:40
Another thing SLX has that SLB doesn't - featured item fees. They can be pretty nasty, and are nearly essential unless you're fortunate enough to have people searching for your product by name.
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SF Allen
Registered User
Join date: 31 Jan 2007
Posts: 33
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02-14-2007 08:51
I have also noticed that SLB doesn,t seem to have the SL Risk Api policy in place unlike SLX which feels obliged to use it and is blighted by the problem of rejecting deposits and really pi**ing people off.
I understand the fraud implications but if SLB seem happy to work without it, why is SLX so scared not to use it!
This Risk Api is an old chesnut and perhaps one day, the issues it causes will be ironed out, meanwhile I will return to my unit of flying pigs...
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Egon Rothschild
Never Enough Prims
Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 556
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02-14-2007 09:20
From: someone Oh good grief!! why did you have to go and tell me that for? .. <rummages through pocketsses> yes, bilbo, shopping for sl at work has been a secret vice of mine... and made more enticing since you can charge purchases to your credit card if you do not have enough lindens in your account and dare not go in-game at work. sigh. |
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Kidd Krasner
Registered User
Join date: 1 Jan 2007
Posts: 1,938
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02-14-2007 10:38
From: Ceera Murakami SL Boutique is a company owned by Players - other residents of SL. It is not part of Linden Lab. There is a similar, seperate company called SL Exchange, with similar services.
SL Boutique appears to be owned by the Electric Sheep Company, which I'm guessing is either a partnership or LLC. It seems highly likely that all of the employees, including management, are SL players, but I wouldn't entirely rule out the possibility of an investor or investment company owning a piece without being SL players. Not that this is hugely important, but I don't want people thinking that SL Boutique is just an amateur web site thrown together by some SL players. ESC is a real consulting company, with real contracts, real management, etc. |