Second Life Marketplace

More information for Second Life Marketplace merchants, Linden Lab have blogged Magic Box and Xstreet Shut Down Dates. No, you haven’t read that incorrectly.

The launch of the Viewer Managed Marketplace has erased the last remaining reasons for Magic Boxes to exist inworld. No copy items are no longer a problem. Once everyone has been migrated, they will serve no purpose, other than taking up a prim of land. Therefore the blog post informs us :

Merchants who are still using Magic Boxes to sell their items will need to manually migrate their listings by August 17, 2015, when Magic Boxes will no longer appear on Marketplace.

Hopefully this won’t be an issue for too many merchants. August 17th is not that far away. The news about XStreet is odd. The blog post informs us :

We will leave Xstreet up until August 27, 2015, so that interested Merchants can pull their data before the site is shut down for good.

This news is odd for a few reasons. New merchants might be wondering what XStreet is. Older merchants might be surprised to learn that XStreet is still running. First let’s go back in time, to January 2009 when Linden Lab announced :

Linden Lab®, creator of the virtual worldSecond Life®, today announced a key milestone in its expansion of the Second Life platform: acquiring two Web-based marketplaces for virtual goods, Xstreet SL and OnRez. These acquisitions join several other recent strategic initiatives, including enhancements to the experience for new users, which will enable Linden Lab to reach a broader global audience for Second Life in 2009. Linden Lab is consolidating the two marketplaces on the Xstreet SL platform, offering one online shopping experience for customers and merchants. This will make it easier for Second Life Residents to find virtual goods to purchase and will provide merchants broader channels to sell their products.

XStreet and OnRez were created by Second Life residents, not Linden Lab. However in 2009 Linden Lab made both online marketplaces an offer they couldn’t refuse (No horse’s heads were involved) and they were eventually merged under the Second Life Marketplace banner.

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CommerceTeam Linden has revealed in a forum post that new email preferences are available on The Second Life Marketplace, some long overdue ones relating to reviews being posted included, but other positive changes have been unveiled too. There’s also evidence that you shouldn’t stop believing in the Jira because issues dating back to 2010, indeed one almost to the day in 2010 have been addressed. The Jira sucks quite a lot more these days, but if your blood pressure can take it, keep filing those Jiras. Quite frankly after a day like I’ve had at work, my blood pressure really isn’t taking well to the new Jira, so it’s best that I take deep breaths and stay away from it.

CommerceTeam Linden is a Linden of few words, but does provide a link to the right place to get the skinny on the lowdown, namely, the release notes. The new changes include:

An email to the recipient when a redelivery of an item they should have received occurs.
An email to the merchant when a redelivery of an item in their store occurs.
An email of any change to revenue distributions on a listing are made: addition and removal.
An email to the recipient of a revenue distribution when a sale occurs.
An email when an item is unlisted or blocked as a result of a flag.
An email when a review is added, removed, commented on or flagged and removed (all to the merchant).

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