Final nail > Coffin

All I'm hearing now is people pulling their items from Xstreet right now, people with over 1000 items, so much hard work gone into their business and maintaining their listings and customer service over the years and now, stabbed in the back.

May have been me that gave it to you on Twitter or Identi.ca.

I am curious to see if Linden Lab might attempt to declare e-commerce sites that compete against x$treet a violation of TOS.

I pulled my inventory off of x$ today. I build because I enjoy it, and I've given away a lot of things that I initially created for my own use. The items I sell, I don't sell to make a profit. I sell them so that I have a little extra spending money, or so I can toss a little more into my dollar account so I don't have to pay quite as much out of pocket for my tier.

My biggest items, of course, were the free ones. And that made me happy. Especially all the wonderful comments and letters I received in thanks for them. But when it comes to selling actual merchandise, my inworld sales far eclipsed any sales I made on x$.

Of course, I am making my move to MetaLife in a big way. Of the remaining third-party sites, it seems to be well-designed and also eye-pleasing. I am going to recommend that others do the same.

When Prokofy Neva and I can agree on something ... it's kind of scary.

I ended up joining for much the same reasons, earlier today >.>

i wouldve been only a little put out if they put a small fee on freebies. i mean, i only had three freebies on xstreets, it couldnt hurt me to lose them, or even make then 1L

but nooooooooo... fee everyone and everything >_< good god

i had about 500 items before i deactivated them all. in total, if i had stayed, the monthly xstreet fees wouldve been close to my monthly fee for my mainstore. i cant afford what would be paying for two mainstores! i never put money into SL, because i have virtually no money in RL. my store supports itself and all 4 of its locations, im proud to say. and xstreets only ever generated 1000L per month, on average. not worth 5000L.

but... oh my... its going to take forever to get all of my stuff listed here, and LL's given me a headache >.> at least i got everything in the box

...

on a side note, seems metalife has interesting other features too, soon as i figure em out XD

Oh my gosh. How did I live without this place?

Yanking my stuff from Xstreet and happily moving here.

Just started My business on XStreet and heard the news. Well, needless to say, here I am and I like it already. LoL Way to go LL Keep up the "Good Work". <--insert sarcastic tone here.

I checked the "Apparel: 38976" number and its really: Apparel (389647).

I was thinking WOW I cant believe it dropped 358701 items THAT fast! It's actually 8030 removed, which is still significant, but no where near 350, 000 + items. Just a point of clarification.

I do run both XST and Meta, but I guess I will pull mine off XST as well. I make sporadic sales, most of mine around this time of year off XST and but whatever, it's not worth it to me to spend to make.

I'm not sure that LL is hiding under their desks. They are used to people reacting badly to their ideas.

If anything, people pulling their goods out of xStreet is one of the goals they had, anyway, which was to reduce clutter.

The question is: is the stuff being pulled out the sort of thing that was making money for LL, or is it 'just' the freebies and cheap things that (as dollars go) aren't important to LL. And dollars is all they're thinking about, I'm sure.

Likely, when coming up with this bit of brilliance, they did some math and thought "well, we'll likely lose x number of thousands of items, but we'll keep the high end stuff".

Whether or not that'll happen and whether or not the buying public remains interested in the site without the 'cheap stuff' is yet to be seen.

My boss and I just joined meta-life today, thanks to this oh so wonderful decision. She'll be cutting back majorly on what she lists on xstreet (removing 2/3 of her approximately 1,000 products, which almost all sell pretty regularly), while I removed all of my items and have no intention of returning, even to shop.
There were so many ways they could have done this without alienating so many of their customers, but what would LL be if not for their crowd-pleasing tactics?
The good news, though, is it's making a lot of people look at where their money goes, and find ways to either cut back on fees, or at least find a resident-run business to send them to instead of sending them straight to LL.

I will say this. I am happy that LL did this? Why? Because I knew this would happen. It will increase meta-life (which has vendors! )Visibility as well as decrease xstreet competition (which is still linked to SL search and will eventually be merged into SL search proper). So I will maintain both. Mind you Meta-life still gets priority because of the excellent service and the vendor. I did attend the 3rd office hour for this diecision and was the lone voice of reason on the issue. Nevertheless, I am not going to have freebies on Xstreet anymore either. they will be here exclusively.

List your items, create an item group, create a brand, create branded vendors, give these vendors to friends or to everyone you know. They'll make money selling your items and you'll also make money. Win/Win. ^_^

well, I think it all just started and soon the items on x-street will drop down drasticaly.
as for me I only need some more hours to set up all here on Metalife, before I can delete all on x-street.
cuz writing the discription for about 1000 items is not realy what I had in mind
so copy and paste is the better thing.
I would have stayed there if they only charge for the freebies, o.k. it´s some sort of advertising- I could go with this. but being charged for any single item I put up?!
no thanks.
I enjoy what I do and invest my sales in the shoprent and in full perm stuff I cannot create myself yet.
I also would have agreed, if they wanted people to take off old stuff, not selling anymore. I will not transfer everything here, it´s a good time to sort out.
but the fee for each listing, just shows how greedy people can become if they are all ready "on top of the list"....darn!!! just so much like RL

I can only dream, but what I wouldn't give for a special "mass description set" button that would pop up a box or a window that let me input the description for an entire series of items.

Example:
I have 15 pairs of gloves and about 40 pairs of tights.

I had to manually input the description on every single item page... and I use the same description for the whole set.

Please consider it someday <3

I'm deciding to move all my free and opensource stuff here on metalife. I'll do a try. I hope that this is not going to become the same as xstreet.
Next time it will happen I will do my own website

Let's be intelligent creatures and not greedy people. I'm convinced that it can be possible for anybody to have a fair revenue, but with a fair and transparent policy. metalife runners can have their income, people wanting to sell can do, and people willing to share knowledget and opensource can do. After all the richness of a marketplace is its content, not the price for each good.

Would some people of Metalife assure us they are welcoming free and opensource "sellers" and volunteers.

I'm prepared to do a heavy marketing pro-metalife within my community (and I can assure you they usually listen to me)