opinions wanted: selling stuff through vendors on real rezzed items

I would like to know the opinion of SL-users what they think of using vendors to sell/buy items.

I mean the kind of vendors that displays an object and the click the 'next-arrow' to see the next one.

Selling items through vendors have the great benefit that you can sell many items using only a limited amount of prims.
That's good when you rent some space, like a shop, to sell your items.

But, do buyers have the patience to browse through all the pages of your vendor to see what you have to offer????
If you have rezzed the object you have for sale in your shop, buyers can see the object in 1 look en also get a better idea what the object is about because they see it in real.....

So, who has experience with both ways of selling and give some advice on it....

And buyers, what do you think of vendors?? Do you have the patience to browse throuh 10, 20 or even more pages of a vendor to see what the seller has to offer???

those are called holo vendors

they are nice for displaying avi`s or large prim objects, haven`t seen a networked holo vendor yet from the handfull of places i`ve looked and managing lets say 50, is a pain in the ass let alone if u endup with more

as far as i know, the objects have to be in the vendor and can`t be done networked (wich prolly is why i haven`t seen them yet)
there are multi display holorezzers where u can see say 6 pics, make each holorezzer for another catagory like chairs, tables etc but it can be a pain to add all items and manage

I don't have a problem cycling through them all but only if the product on dislay at the time catches my attention, if it doesn't I'm unlikely to scroll through the others.

I won't use a scripted vendor.

1. It makes it impossible for more than one person to shop at a time
   
2. There is no handy hover tip that lists the price
   
3. It doesn't matter how long I've been in the store, each new ad will need extra time to rez
   
4. They have a tendency to stop working when the grid starts to act up
   
5. It delivers a box you have to rez to get what you bought (extra risk for a rez failure)
   
6. I might look at the entire store, settle on a handful of things and then go back and forth making my mind up on which to get, that's just too clumsy to do with a vendor
   
7. If the ad doesn't list the permissions, I can't look at the contents to figure them out

That said, if you used a vendor to cut down on colour packs, I wouldn't mind, just as long as there is an ad of the actual item above the vendor .

And other people will prefer a scripted vendor over prims set for sale, so the only real answer is that there isn't one .

Thanks for the replies so far ... and Kitty, you got some points there ...

Anymore comments on this one?

I think it depends on what you're selling. If you're selling furniture, people like to try it out, which they can't do if it's in a vendor.

I sell my large landscape screens out of vendors. They're so big there's no way I could display all of them on my property. I rez one of them as a sample for each size available, (20x20, 30x30, etc.) and then I put a simple vendor in front of it that people can scroll through to see the different images that are available in that size. Works pretty well so far. And it keeps it so there aren't a whole ton of things to scroll through in each vendor - people don't like having to scroll through 50 things to find the one thing they're looking for.

Hello! I sell clothes on sl and holo vendors dont work well for them. Like Kitty said is good to see the permitions, what are you buying, the price. I already tryed use them on my store but almost nobody bought from it.

i don use vendors, but sometimes they can be useful...

but ppl sometimes make big mistake when put in vendors about 50 products !!! and for each put 1280x1024 pic..damn !!!

venodrs is cool if they r fast....and not for all objects of corse..

networked vendors are the only way to go when running numerous outlets. you track sales better, you can see which locations sell best, youre more organised and can launch new products faster.
its true that many sellers dont put much thought into how they utilise the vendors. vendors can be used in many creative and intuitive manners when you start grouping them and categorising them.
holo vendors are nice to use in the main shop, but nowhere else. only because they arent networked (that i have seen- and ive looked).