{"id":2641,"date":"2013-01-21T22:46:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2013-01-21T22:46:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:46:59","slug":"kitely-market-has-early-bird-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":"Kitely Market Has Early Bird Offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Kitely\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitely.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kitely<\/a> are currently developing a marketplace for their virtual world, one they hope will also be able to serve other virtual worlds. They have recently blogged some information about how their market will work and they are offering an early bird promotion for merchants to apply for, the details can be found <a title=\"Kitely Market Early Bird Promotion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/2013\/01\/20\/kitely-market-early-bird-promotion\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Kitely market will be different from the Second Life marketplace, for a start there will be listing fees, although I&#8217;m unsure how often you have to pay a listing fee, or whether it&#8217;s a one off fee. The listing fees are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Add product: 100 KC<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Add variation: 25 KC<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>KC being Kitely Credits. Now the reason for the variation fee is because variations will be listed under one product, so instead of seeing umpteen different listings for a shirt in different colours, you&#8217;ll have a listing with variations.<\/p>\n<p>Kitely are also offering some early bird offers to try and encourage merchants to start setting up shop:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Early-Bird Discounts for All Merchants<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0There will be a 50% discount on listing fees until the market opens for buyers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0In addition, we will provide a special free world that registered merchants (see below) can use for creating their objects. Since we don\u2019t charge upload fees, this means that even users using the Free Plan will be able to create items without any cost except for the listing fees. This world will only be available until the marketplace opens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However if you&#8217;re an established merchant, you can apply to be a featured merchant and get even better discounts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Additional Benefits for Featured Merchants<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The discounts described above are available to anyone that creates content for the Kitely Market. But in addition, we have another tier of benefits for a limited number of big merchants. These benefits are as follows:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Free listing of products and variations until the marketplace opens. (I.e., we waive the 100 KC \/ 25 KC listing fees completely.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0The merchant\u2019s store logo will be displayed on the Kitely Market homepage for one year from the date the marketplace opens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0We will create an official always-on free-access shopping world, tentatively called the \u201cKitely Plaza\u201d. Each Featured Merchant will receive a free 2000m parcel with 3000 prims to build their shop in this world. This parcel will be rent-free for at least one year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Finally, Featured Merchants will be eligible to participate in monthly fashion shows in the Kitely Plaza.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Criteria for Featured Merchant Consideration<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>You must upload at least 200 unique high-quality products (not variations) to the Kitely Market before April 1.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0You must have been selling for a minimum of three years in Second Life and\/or a well known OpenSim grid.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Since space in our homepage and shopping world is limited, only about 20 merchants will be eligible for these benefits.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Kitely market will also have features such as export permissions, which is basically whereby a merchant flags whether an item can be exported from Kitely or not, this isn&#8217;t an issue for virtual worlds such as Second Life but is for open sim grids.<\/p>\n<p>Items will be able to be sold for Kitely credits or US dollars, in which case money will go to your paypal account, but either way fees will apply, so read the information carefully.<\/p>\n<p>The Kitely market is still a few weeks off yet, so I can&#8217;t link to it in operation, but I&#8217;ll link the blog post about it again down here, you really should read that post carefully if you&#8217;re interested as I&#8217;ve left a fair bit out, but it&#8217;s an interesting development.<\/p>\n<p>Kitely Market Blog Post: <a title=\"Kitely Market Early Bird Promotion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/2013\/01\/20\/kitely-market-early-bird-promotion\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/2013\/01\/20\/kitely-market-early-bird-promotion\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2641\" data-via=\"Ciaran_Laval\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"g-plusone\" data-annotation=\"inline\" data-width=\"300\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- Place this tag after the last +1 button tag. --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() {     var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text\/javascript'; po.async = true;     po.src = 'https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/plusone.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);   })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitely are currently developing a marketplace for their virtual world, one they hope will also be able to serve other virtual worlds. 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