Selling on Xstreet just got more expensive

Search in general in-world is borked. The 'search all' is laughable so we are left with 'search places'. I use the latter, but if I do not have the time to teleport to 100 shoe stores (and wait for them to rez) to find the ones to match my gown I use xstreet to find them then go to the one that has what I want.

A search much like what we have on the advanced search in xstreet, but in world, would be a great start. Let us have the options to define what we want (price, perms, keywords, category, sort order, etc). One search it is better to order by relevance, but on another search ordering by price is a better sort option. I do not think I would search by creator ... if I knew a creator who leads the field in a certain item I would go to their store (or a webpage).

Oh, some way to limit searches to not show 100 listings for minor variations on an object (colors, etc) would be great. I may want a green blouse, but there is no reason why it can not be listed as an option with other blouses that use the same design (then allow me to specify that feature in my search query).

Just move your items to meta-life.net
^_^

I deleted anything I used to give "free". Believe me these were not promotions, they were just give aways. But seeing as how a $0L listing is considered a promotion then here you go. Here is a promotional version of Demons for free temporarily:

https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1947130


This is a "Zyngo-like" game that has been around since wayyyy before Zyngo and by the way it ROCKS, isn't buggy and isn't hackable ... so why pay for it ... it's FREE NOW!

There's my $L0 promotion! Everyone should join in and squash the non-free non-promotion oriented merchants by GIVING away better quality then what's sold so LL has no one's bum left to kiss in these matters.

Go LL!

i got two!

Get more!

why? i won't have any place to put them.

but, in the spirit, i did snag some new freebies this a.m. off xstreet. how do i know if i want to spend L$500 from just a picture? i need a sample!

Before you guys bail out of XStreet just give your stuff away till it costs. Why not? You're not gunna sell it there are ya? It's not going to impact your in-world sales is it? GIVE IT AWAY WHILE IT'S FREE TO DO THAT! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Its Greed with excuses nothing less nothing more

Winner.

Of course it's greed. Fortunately, for this form of greed there IS competition. Go to Apez or Slapt and list there. I'm slowly delisting and moving over to them, myself.

Edit to add: At least they aren't deluding us with the words, "We're looking for suggestions."

At Apex, Slapt and I believe the other one was called Meta Life, can you pay in lindens like on xstreet?

Of course you can pay in L$

I am on meta-life.net
It works for me, its basicly like the old SLX ^_^

Yep, and to be honest, I've found Slapt to be better than Apez, as far as listing as a content creator goes. Slapt is more like XStreet just before LL bought it out and ruined it, in it's listing tools.

Shopping seems pretty painless too. They already have a freebie section and once things simmer down a bit, they're going to look at allow us to list all the colors of one outfit on ONE listing. And all this without tacking on more fees.

I'd love the ability to have the Boolean abilities so as not to bring up every item with a particular keyword in it and also to be able to search by creator.

And this ^^ would be AWESOME!!

You can do that.

In total items listed, in percentage terms, they have reached parity.

In absolute numbers, it's Xstreet down 67,800 items to 1.078 million,
other sites up 8430 items to 151,200

Over the past day, its been Xstreet -5741, Others +1733

(all item numbers are from the respective site's front pages)

I'm not the least bit surprised. Some people will stick it out, until they run afoul of LL's idea of customer support for NPIOFs. After all, XStreet is a part of LL now...

For a fun reference, LL quoted 680,000 items in the release it sent out this past January, when it bought up Xstreet.

I wonder how many of the extra three hundred thousand or so new items are freebies.

Other in the other place, just after the announcement, Winter took a peek and found about 10,000 freebies total.

When you add something to your inventory in SL, what really happens behind the scenes? A database entry gets added or updated, nothing more.

Since LL owns Xstreet, they could integrate it far more tightly: they could bypass LSL completely and use SQL instead. Purchases handled by direct database writes. Maybe this is what they have in mind for "guaranteed delivery"?

I took a sample of 5 medium categories and two large ones:

Out of 71,894 items, 483 were free (zero L$), or about 0.7%

So, was the whole freebie issue moot in the first place?

Well, I think it went this way...

1. LL wanted to make more USD$ on their purchase of XStreetSL, so they worked to raise prices since they were the defacto commerce system in SL since they bought out the top two competitors in the market.
2. A small minority of sellers were upset about freebie competition, so worked to basically have them banned (well not banned, but priced out of the market)
3. I think we should brace for further anticompetitive behavior by LL in the coming months with maybe banning or restrictions on outworld commerce and currency exchange, and maye other measures to increase LL profits.