Au revoir, OnRez

I had been thinking of reopening my store in SecondLife when I heard that LindenLabs had bought both OnRez (my preferred retail partner in SL, formerly known as SL Boutique) and Xstreet SL (formerly known as SL Exchange). As soon as I saw it I thought it was bad news, and I’d been meaning to post a note about it here but RL kept getting in the way.

I have to say that I’m very disappointed that we’re losing OnRez, and not just because I had things set up with them already. I had looked into Xstreet back when they were still known as SLX and I had decided that setting up products and shopping with Xstreet was a pain in the rear, and while I had some of my tees available through them using them was definitely not a preference so I closed my account with them. Silly me.

But LL has once again decided that they know better than their users (see also Dazzle, voice and Age Verification) and the site with the better seller experience seems to have lost. Now before I can start selling my shirts online I have to find a new vendor system since the OnRez vendors will go silent at 5 PM Eastern Time (2 pm SL Time). I have Xstreet’s magic box, but now I have to find a vendor to help me show my products inworld. Peng used to use Apez and I think I’m going to have to check them out. I hear their free vendors took a surcharge out of every sale, but it could end up being easier to work with than Xstreet.

I doubt seriously that I’ll have my store reopen in time for Valentine’s Day, but I’ll see about getting at least my SL tees available for the start of spring. Of course my Bad Moon Rising and Lagalicious tees won’t go back on sale since I already know LL won’t appreciate the humor of the tees. Granted, they won’t like how Peng and I used the hand logo, but I don’t like some of their decisions and this businessperson would put them back on sale if not for the fact that LL would probably ban me for selling them.

You probably won’t see the inSL logo on my shirts anytime soon. Every time I change an image for a tee, whether it’s a new template for a tee or a promotional picture to sell a tee, I have to pay an upload fee. I really don’t feel like having to create over 50 new promo images just to include the SL branding.

Alas, poor OnRex, we know you well. I hope some of your devs end up coming out with a more user friendly retail system than what Xstreet has. Like a better mousetrap, the better stsyem will definitely get customers.

A little news from SecondLife

I came across some important info from SecondLife and wanted to pass it along to those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs.

By Popular Demand: Cancer Sucks Girlie tee now comes in pink!

People love my Cancer Sucks Girlie tees, but there’s one thing I keep hearing. “Is it available in pink?” I kept having to say no, but no longer.

Would you like to fly? Would you like to try?

No, I’m not having a Pink Floyd moment, I’ve got another non-tee item in my SecondLife store, and both the girls and the will love it. It’s the Nanci’s Naughties Hoverboard, and your friends will surely want one when they see yours. Yes, the hoverboard in my latest Flickr pic is available for purchase!

Valentine’s Day tees are HERE!

The all clear for rezzing no copy items has been given by Linden Labs, and the rolling restarts are just about done (my store is in one piece and everything is working, thank goodness), so I just activated my Valentine’s Day tees so they’re available for purchase.

Nanci’s Naughties gets a bit of a remodeling

OnRez, the technology partner i use to sell my tees in SecondLife, came out with a beta version of a brand new vendor. As soon as I saw it I knew I had to get it for Nanci’s Naughties.

The first new tee of 2008: It’s Lagalicious!

I know I said I was going to put the newest tess on sale after the sun comes up on the east coast of the US, but SecondLife was pretty laggy earlier tonight but it’s better now. Plus we have Rolling restarts coming tomorrow so I thought I’d give everyone a New Year’s gift and make it available before I goto bed.

I’m taking the original version tees out of my store

I know when I announced that I was recreating most of the tees I sell in SecondLife that I’d be leaving the original versions of the tees on sale, but it’s getting to be just too many tees of the same designs to manage easily so I’ve had to decide to removes the original versions of my tees as of tomorrow.

Not all the pressies are under the tree this year

It’s almost Christmas here on the east coast of the US, and I have a pressie for everyone that won’t be under your tree. I’m leaking the particulars of the Nanci’s Naughties Day After Chrismukkuh Sale.

We have more Version 2 tees

Twice before I was able to let you know that I added tees based on a new template to Nanci’s Naughties, and I”m happy to say that another batch have just gone on sale.