Web/Marketplace Features

As we are seeing for a while now, our economy is not working great. The linden market is stuck for various reasons, our currency is losing value, but I think LL can help us all by making some changes in the LindeX Exchange page. Second Life should change the description in their website, to explain better how the market works and to direct people that can't wait to an instant payout. We ask for a easier choice of words and concepts that direct users to make a thoughtful choice when they sell their lindens. By using a simpler interface like "Instant Payout" and "Linden Market for experts" we can help users and also help our economy. We also ask to add a "Linden Market guide" in the same page explaining how the Limit Sell works, in terms or timing, mostly. In this way we can help to keep the exchange rate low and have a valuable currency that allows residents and designers to live with their SL incomes. This attached image is just an example, but it gives you an idea of what we ask. Thank you.

I'd like to request the return of the beginning and ending balances on the monthly Account History / Statements for the Tilia Wallet. This feature was incredibly helpful for many of us who use these statements for accounting and financial tracking purposes. Personally, I rely on this information to reconcile my monthly ins and outs, just like I would with a regular bank or PayPal statement. It provided a clear snapshot of what I started the month with and what I ended with, which made tracking and reporting much easier — especially during tax season or when organizing business finances. In addition to the beginning/ending balances, cashout amounts and associated fees have also been removed, which further limits the usefulness of the current statement. Right now, all we can see are Lindex transactions (L$ we sold) and services we bought in Linden Dollars, which doesn’t give a full picture of actual money movement or wallet balance over time. Another important point: the website and PDF versions of the statements often don’t match, which causes confusion. For example, when I pay for land fees or services using funds from my Tilia Wallet, the website clearly states that the payment was made with Tilia wallet — but the PDF doesn't show this detail, making it unclear how the payment was made. The same issue happens with PayPal payments for services. The website shows the paypal accounts email it was paid with but the PDF has zero info on what account I used to pay with. Since many of us rely on the PDF as an official receipt, it really needs to reflect all the same payment details shown on the website. The previous format was much more complete and reliable for those of us treating this as a serious financial tool. Please consider reinstating these features and improving consistency between the web and PDF views. Thanks for listening!

I would like the ability to list an item for sale on the marketplace with the option to make the price open and flexible, so that the buyer can decide what they wish to pay for it. Obviously, some will pay nothing and get the item. Some will pay what they can afford, and some will pay what they believe is a fair price for the work. All of those options would still provide them the item using whatever price they enter at checkout. I want to do this as an alternative to just offering an item for $0L. The 10% per sale fee would still apply to any amount above $10L

Marketplace images are limited to 700x525 pixels. This really needs to be increased so we can actually see what we're buying.

So going into this, I want to disclaim that I myself am not against AI. I personally have used it before, and will do so in the future. A specific chat AI helps me regularly with solving problems. However, I am against people intentionally misleading people about content, and polluting search results with content made in mere seconds, and find it no different than spam. If I made something that randomly generated randomly colored squares on a white canvas, and listed it a dozen or so times, it'd be seen as spam. Additionally, this issue was brought up in the SL Discord marketplace chat. I've moved it here so that it can get more recognition and visibility to LL. Personally, I believe that a policy worded like so would benefit everyone in the long run (canny has messed up some formatting here, so it looks like it has no line breaks, these have been substituted with "---" for readability) Content that is the sole generation of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or otherwise Generative Content, except in the cases where the generator was written for the sole purpose of generating a specific element, may not be listed on the Marketplace as-is or as the focal point of the content that is listed. --- AI images must never be used to generate listing images, and must be presented as the content appears in SL. Overlays, such as permission information, price, branding labels, or sales labels, are permitted as much so as they do not mis-represent the content that is being advertised. --- Examples of forbidden listings: * In singular or collection, AI generated content as a texture, image, mesh, sound or other type of asset, as the sole content being listed. * A AI generated image in a picture frame. * A museum prefab filled with AI generated images as a "ready to go" model. * A object that plays randomly generated AI voice clips. * Attempting to pass off or mislead people that AI generated content as original, hand crafted content. * A listing which shows a AI enhanced product preview. --- Examples of allowed listings: * A house that has a AI generated poster in it, where the poster is not the selling point of the house. * A museum model that has some AI generated images, or is focused on the topic of AI generated content. * A NPC, that among other features, plays AI generated voice clips. * A model that has AI generated textures, where the model is not AI generated. --- Listings that make use of 50% or more in it's creation must be clearly labeled as using AI generation or assistance in the listing description. Interpretation of what counts as "50% or more is" left solely to Linden Lab. Listings that use AI but under the 50% threshold are recommended, but not required, to disclose that AI is used in some capacity. In summary, it forbids listing of content on the marketplace, free or for sale, that is entirely AI generated, requires disclosure of AI generated content when AI does a majority of the work, and guards against some loopholes. This probably (as in, very likely. I feel this is implied, but just in case) isn't needed, but: Because this will probably get passed by the lawyers, I hereby grant all permission to Linden Lab to use or transform the above work in any way, without attribution or compensation. Linden Lab has the opportunity to deal with this now before it gets too out of control. Only a handful of residents would be in violation of this policy. This also only applies to marketplace stuff, not in-world content.

Currently, all active listings appear on the main storefront, including very old items I no longer wish to promote. Some of these I keep listed only so existing customers can redeliver them. However, having these older items visible can make my store look outdated, especially when applying for new events. I suggest adding a simple checkbox in the listing edit page to mark items as "Discontinued." These items would still be purchasable and available for redelivery, but they wouldn't appear on the main storefront by default. Instead, a separate “Discontinued Items” section or button could be added to the store page for customers who specifically want to view them. This would help creators keep their store looking fresh while still supporting existing customers.

Premium Plus member should be able to pick their linden homes from a list or option at empty home to take residence in. Also if using a small parcel we should be able to have 2 small parcels to equal our allotment given to us.

When the merchant responds to a review an email should be sent to the buyer who left the review. This is less personal and confronting than to contact the buyer inworld. Sometimes its just to say thank you, or perhaps to let them know an issue has been addressed and an update is now available etc. The buyer can opt out by unticking the email options box.

Leaving Marketplace reviews is a chore if we have to write something about every last item. For potential buyers, the boilerplate feedback can also drown out useful feedback. Let us click a number of stars, and make the text review optional. If you prefer to keep viewers visible to combat review stuffing, you could still show who left star-only reviews. Sort the blank reviews to the end, or present them in a concise list format. It is also worth noting that other major marketplaces like Amazon and the iPhone app store allow star-only ratings.

I recently found an item on MP that suggested adult activities with a child avatar. When I went to flag it, the best I could do was flag it as "not marked Adult." I don't feel that this was enough, considering how tough Linden Labs is supposed to be on ageplay. I think there should be a way to flag something as ageplay so it gets dealt with appropriately and quickly.