Commerce

When filing JIRA’s one wants to be sure they are not filing a duplicate issue. That is not an easy thing to determine. Sassy Romano has made it easier for those with Direct Delivery problems.

One of the good things about checking for duplicates is one often finds the current work around methods or even fixes for the problem. So, check them out.

See: EXISTING MARKETPLACE JIRAS ISSUE LOG.

I came across Darrius Gothly explaining to someone how to get stuck items out of the Unassociated Items List. I think that info is handy to know, so I’m publishing it here.

The problem is seen when you move a Market Place item from your Magic Box to Direct Delivery using the Merchant’s Outbox. The previous item from the Magic Box is moved to the Unassociated Items List. If you just delete it, it will come back… again ad again. If you delete from the Magic Box and the list, it will still come back again and again. They seem impossible to remove. Darrius has a fix:

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Princess Verwood has posted in the SL Forum that she is running a poll on whether merchants are changing from boxes to folders. Of course in the forum few people will see the poll. So, I’m reposting here.

I’m not sure enough people are able to use the Merchant’s Outbox to have decided.

I think I have 4 products out via Merchant’s Outbox. I’ve done those with folders. Previously they were boxed items in the Market Place.

Darrius Gothy points out that with the new ‘View Contents’ feature in the Market Place, using folders is more important. I know I prefer buying things in-world using BUY so I can open the package and see what all is in the box/purchase. Many items lack good information on the ‘box’ or product description. So, it is hard to know exactly what one is getting.

If one wants to sell to me, tell me lots about the product.

UPDATE: Oh DUH! Add the article link: Poll – Second Life Direct Delivery: Folders or Boxed?

Direct to poll link: POLL

We all hear about problems with Direct Delivery. We also hear the Lindens aren’t fixing things… whatever you think, there are some objective numbers in the JIRA.

The Market Place seems to fall in the Realm of the Web Project. That project also includes the JIRA, Wiki, and other Second Life web sites. It would be easy to say the Lindens are doing all they can to hide everything the Commerce Team does. I personally think it would have been better to break out DD as a separate project. But, the combination is what we have.

Yesterday the Commerce team was going to take the Market Place down for changes about 5 AM. Then that was going to be put off until Monday. Then they rescheduled it to 10 AM yesterday. They did take the Market Place from about 10 to 11:30 AM Thursday, yesterday.

We still don’t know what was changed or fixed. Just that the site was down.

We do know there is a small problem with Direct Delivery Bears over populating the world. That problem has been solved with a small nuke.

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I think it was SassyRomano’s finger on the button.

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