Trill brought out some really good flowers for decorating the ravine last night.
I think I've seen them before on her space in Harbour.
The amazing part about them is that they aren't particle-flowers and they do a good job of fitting a reasonable slope of a landscape.
I checked out the creator of their flowers to see where their store was.
Instead, I saw a profile full of gushing, lurid praise for their partner. All ten freaking picks were about them, too.
Someone that, according to this bodice-ripper of romance and lust, I was really not interested in talking with at the moment.
Sure, I could strike up a conversation or leave them an offline note praising the flowers and asking where I can get them, but I've found that my crankiness comes earlier in the week and faster as the night approaches.
Captain Grumblebutt is in no mood for jibber-jabber. Just sell me the damn flowers and save me the cost of barf bags, okay? If you've done things right, this is even simpler than buying a Coke in a vending machine, and can happen 24x7.
Instead, I'm being rooked into a game of Hide And Seek?
Maybe I was tired or I didn't dig deep enough, and at my worst I can be pretty damn oblivious, but I'm usually pretty good about finding where someone has something for sale.
If you make it so hard to find your store that it takes more than 3 clicks to find it, you know what?
Fuck you - you've lost a sale.
Some suggestions:
- Put your store in your picks.
- Put your store in your Description or First Life tab.
- Put the store's web page or SLURL in the Web tab.
- List the store in Search.
- Hide your group listings except for the store updates group.
- Pick a dedicated alt to do business under.
- Put a notecard or landmark in the product.
As for the flowers themselves, I've been meaning to swap out the Heart willows with her stuff. I'll just see what Honour has next door that would look pretty... well, that isn't a 50-prim flexi primasterpiece.
(If anybody checks those out, you can damn well be sure that you'll know where to find them.)
Comments (5)
Calm down, everything will be fine. I can hear you hyperventilating over here.
Posted by Dedric Mauriac | February 26, 2009 10:48 AM
Posted on February 26, 2009 10:48
lol Yes dear there are lots of pretty low prims trees as well - just let me know what you want. :)
Posted by Honour | February 26, 2009 1:03 PM
Posted on February 26, 2009 13:03
You know, I have ALWAYS hated this. who... the ... fuck... cares... about.. your.. fucking.. personal crap. no one. but i can't find your stupid store unless you have something that tells me how.
imagine if in RL, you could get a profile of a store owner and all you saw was how HAWT their stupid partner was. you'd probably avoid them like the plague, right? because it would seem totally unprofessional.
so why does it work in SL then? hint... it doesn't. you people who do this are just to stupid to notice that little fact, or care.
Posted by radar | February 26, 2009 1:16 PM
Posted on February 26, 2009 13:16
THANK YOU!! You read my mind and put it into words
Posted by Ana Lutetia | February 26, 2009 1:23 PM
Posted on February 26, 2009 13:23
Personally, I feel like I buy a LOT of trees in SL. I'd say 99% of my purchases are tree-related. From 1 prim to 81+ prims, I'll buy it.
So I cannot even begin to count the number of times I have tried to track down cool trees for sale by looking at the creator's profile, only to end up drawing a blank as to if they even sell them, or just happened to make a one-off for a friend that I stumbled across.
Which is usually my assumption - they don't have a store or otherwise sell those amazing trees. Because if they did, surely they would have that info SOMEWHERE in their profile??
Maybe I should start sending them offline IM's to find out, but in the event they do have them for sell somewhere, there sure are quite a few creators that have lost sales because I was too polite to interrupt their SLives to find out.
Posted by Wrath | February 26, 2009 1:42 PM
Posted on February 26, 2009 13:42