Permissions and Vendors

Hiya - this might be more at home in the scripting forum, but since it's primarily a permissions question I'll start here.

I want to sell a type of vending system with an item in it which is copyable - i.e. no limit on its sales. So I'm selling 'the owner' a vendor, which they can then place and have their 'customers' buy the contents *from them*, as many times as they like.

However, when the customers buy the object, I don't want it to be copyable for them. They buy the one copy and that's it.

Is there an elegant way to do this, short of asking the owners to set the permissions on the objects before sale? Because I want control of that object, I don't want it to be modifiable. The way I see it is that if I sell them the vendor containing the object which has copy permissions, every copy they then sell will also be copyable.

Any ideas? :/

When the owner puts the object in the vendor he/she owns, that item retains its current perms and they should include the copy perm. It is the "Next Owner" perms that apply to the object once passed to the buyer. AFAIK, the vendor cannot affect these perms.

By owner do you mean me or the person who buys the vendor? Because I'm selling the vendor *with* the object inside - if I set the object to no copy, when the new owner sets it up, the permissions will apply to them as next owner and the vendor will only be able to sell that one copy of the object, surely?

Hmm, I can't get my brain round this, I'll play with some alts later and see at what stage if any no copy messes things up.

I managed to get around this by making a vendor that doesn't actually have the item in it. When the purchase is made... The vendor sends a request to a "distributor" that I own. And this distributor actually gives out the item....

Oh now THAT's clever Thanks mate, that might just be the key. Would it have to use email, so won't necessarily be instant? Just a thought, I'll have a test of that anyhow.

God bless SL for being full of clever people who make the confusion go away!