Comments on: Second Life metaLIFE Market Grows at XStreet’s Expense

By: Merchant

Merchant — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:36:01 +0000

Apez is having issues with vendors which the claim are ‘resolved’ but haven’t been. Users rez an Apez vendor in a sandbox, get the goods somehow without paying for them. The merchants get nothing, Apez denies existance of this error, see their forums for more. Slow service all around at Apez.Meta-life seems meatier and lively but it’s difficult to use, their search engine is better than Slapt but let’s face it those vendors are horrible. That said I’d expect far more people purchase via the inworld vendors than via the meta-life website, which is far too busy. Slapt has a lively community, easy to use and the vendors are great. As a merchant it’s easy, as a buyer.It’s a little less tricky to use than the others but still not great. Deliveries not going through, a bad search engine (MUST FIX!!) and up until recently IE users had trouble.Fixed now? The main website looks amatuer beyond the first page, it’d be nicer if it flowed. Good helpful community, nice idea of giftcards and promotions they seem to be doing the most work to get BUYERS as well as merchants actively using the website. It just needs to be easier for the buyer to use.

By: Marx Dudek

Marx Dudek — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:21:11 +0000

Apez has been around since 2005. The fact that they are still a minor player is due, in my opinion, more to the apathy of those who run it than anything else. The avatar responsible for placing new terminals has been known to be offline for more than a month at a time while people wait for placements.

By: Robbie Kiama

Robbie Kiama — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:39:04 +0000

Hey hey,

@Ari,
Hope that you meant good instead of goof lol

@Skye – yes usability part will be a big TO DO task for us sometime in Jan…Feb. Also You DON’T need to use our IN-world vendors yourself, this goes Automatically – when you list items with metaLIFE, they become available in BOTH marketplaces: Web+ In-world, that is what makes ML a unique service, also affiliates can start reselling for you, right after you list your items!

Hope you guys find it useful, if you have any questions – come to our forums, there are lots of ppl who can help you…

By: Ari Blackthorne

Ari Blackthorne — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:40:32 +0000

@Robbie

I have been on MetaLife for some time (but only got to setting things up there recently)

I agree you’ve already leap-frogged the abilities of Apez system – seems Cenji Neutra and company over there have not really advanced the system over there. Slapt.Me is way new and still have quite a way to go in development.

In the end: it’s all goof for the users.

By: Skye Donardson

Skye Donardson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:15:33 +0000

I found it, thanks. And I’ll admit after checking Meta-life, I’m a bit frustrated. Finding information on how to get started there is difficult, and I found Slapt.me a bit easier to use. I don’t have a space inworld to sell things, so I’m going to be relying almost solely on web-sales, if I decide to sell my stuff at all.

By: Coke Supply

Coke Supply — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:40:34 +0000

@ Skye:

The slapt.me website is remarkably similar to the xstreet website in order to make it easier to use for those making the switch from xstreet. They have recently launched a new in-world vendor system which is simpler than the metaLIFE vendors but as a result it is much easier to use, and the slapt.me community is a remarkably friendly and helpful group. To be honest I prefer using the slapt.me website for web purchases, but as a merchant I prefer to use the metaLIFE vendors to distribute my items in-world. The slapt.me site has only been operating for a few months, however, and after seeing a remarkable level of progress and success during that short time I believe they will only go from strength to strength as things progress. The article is here in the Herald somewhere, I found it the other day but it’s buried in the archives somewhere! (I think under the business section, I can’t remember)

By: Skye Donardson

Skye Donardson — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:34:41 +0000

Fantastic interview! I was considering putting up some stuff on XStreet right as they announced their new system. Decided to ixnay that decision, and have been slowly checking out the other available vendor sites. This sort of article is *exactly* what I need to help me decide. (I’ll check out your info on Slapt.me as well.) Thanks so much!

By: MeritKay Seetan

MeritKay Seetan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:01:23 +0000

Joining MetaLife, was my best decision ever and I am positivley surprised by all their services
-amazing free merchendise stuff-and easy to set up affiliate program if you need, you can have multiple brands which helps a lot to set up vendors for sattelite stores in different themed sims without investing a lot of time

the help and service from the ML team is brilliant
it´s such a pleasure to work with them
and
good thing
the team realy listens to their merchents and customers if it comes to improvements!!!!
I wouldn´t go anywhere else

By: Aliselia Aeon

Aliselia Aeon — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:56:22 +0000

I think those who run metaLife are absolutely brilliant in dropping the fees at this time. It looks to me like they have people in charge who actually understand business, unlike some others.
They have my business now.

By: Robbie Kiama

Robbie Kiama — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:16:08 +0000

Hey Ari,

Yeah definitely there are other companies providing Vendors, yet you’d have to try metaLIFE’s Vendors to see the difference
- Ease for new affiliates to join
- High Speed, Low on Lag, and very low on prims(down from 26 to 10, using TouchDetect )
- user friendly UI(also customizable by the owner)
- etc…

When any of you you want try them out(they are for Free) feel free to call me(Robbie Kiama) I will be happy to give you a short demo – we could try to find couple ways how metaLIFE and your business could help each other…