Web/Marketplace Features

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.

Many creators rely on a completely separate listing for a different color, pack (fatpack, browns, blacks, etc.). This makes searching for clothes, hairs, etc. much more difficult as many of the search results are a variation of the same item. I’d also like to see existing color and variation listings automatically merged into a single listing. This would help reduce clutter in search results and make it easier to find the right product. These could be underneath the product pictures in a horizontal list of thumbnails that includes the color/variation name, and that variants price.

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.

Rail Vehicles is missing from catagories https://marketplace.secondlife.com/en-US/products/search?search%5Bcategory_id%5D=20&search%5Bkeywords%5D=&search%5Blayout%5D=gallery&search%5Bmaturity_level%5D=G&search%5Bper_page%5D=96&search%5Bsort%5D=_score_desc A locomotive is a rail vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive

As we all know, the Marketplace review and rating system is outdated and needs an overhaul. Many sellers complain about unfair reviews, and buyers need better incentives to leave feedback at all. Many products are purchased without receiving any reviews. Generally, negative reviews are more likely to be submitted and can even be posted by competitors with baseless reasons. Having been an eBay PowerSeller for a long time, I would like to make the following suggestions: * Direct Rating for Sellers and Products: Sellers should be rated directly along with the product. While the product itself gets rated separately, the seller’s performance should also be visible in their personal sales history with dedicated pages. * Buyer Rating System: Buyers should also be rated in a similar manner. The advantages are manifold: buyers will have more incentive to make purchases, unjustified negative reviews will decrease, and communication between buyers and sellers will improve to resolve issues. Buyers also enjoy accumulating good ratings themselves. * Review Reminders: The marketplace should actively remind users that they can and should leave reviews. This system works excellently on eBay and has the advantage of reducing negative reviews while generating more purchases and sales. This is also in Linden Lab’s best interest. With this improvements you will get a more friendly & more active Secondlife marketplace. Best Regards.

A refreshed Marketplace with a responsive web design would be great. More content could be shown and could also increase ad revenue for LL

Being able to have more than one store in the same account would be very convenient. For example, I do general scripting and game stuff on one hand, and stuff for a specific avatar on the other. These are very different product types, and it'd make sense to separate them into their own stores. While I could create an alt to have a second store, being able to manage it all from the same account would be preferable. Features like reports and sales information could keep showing the same information they do now, if necessary. While it'd be nice to have separate reports for each store instead of just one report with all your products, that seems less important than the ability to create separate stores in the first place.

It would be nice to see region names on the Second Life Maps website (link below) when you zoom into regions on the world map instead of clicking each region to see them. https://maps.secondlife.com/

An interesting option that would remove hours of massive work for most large marketplace stores would be an option in which we can put our entire store or groups of products on discount, so that on days like Black Friday or 11.11 for example we can easily put our store has a discount so that our public can purchase the products, it would also be interesting if there was some type of visual warning that that product is at a discount, such as text in red writing the discount value of that product, thus easily showing that the product is at a discount For the buyer, with this idea people would be able to buy more as they would know that it was on sale and it would help with the second life economy in general.

Regrettably, a lot of merchants still don't have their demos labelled as demos, so that they can be excluded from search. However, there is no category to report such mis-classifications. We only have: Disallowed listing practices Demo not linked to full version But we are lacking: Disallowed listing practices Demo not classified as demo In order to help sanitize the Marketplace, users should be able to report those things.