Now this. If these new piece-of-the-action fees go through, I think Linden Lab is going to find that 80% of the business in XStreetSL will vanish almost overnight. Very few people I know who sell things on XStreetSL would be able to make a profit if LL took a monthly listing fee off the top.

I’m convinced that the people running Linden Lab do not actually play the game they maintain and market. It’s impossible to be this stupid and clueless otherwise.

A bad movement for everyone in my opinion. LL sees the profits of some merchants and thinks how to take a part but they don’t think on the mass of creators and sellers who barely make profit.
These mass creators have a mass of stores that maintain a good number of commercial sims, (and also a mass of sells in Xstreet).
The harder for them to compete, the more abandoned sims, and less fees for LL. Also less variety and quantity of in-world content.

If Lindens really want SL commerce to “evolve” they should let the merchants have a margin instead of trying to take part, (take profit), on every business about SL.

For two years I’ve been warning others about what Linden would do next and no one listened. And every bit of it has happened. There is a war being waged. A spiritual war with this company. And it’s been going on for a long time.

You need to remove all of your content from Second Life(tm). Linden Lab cannot do anything about it legally, or technically. Every time I try to warn people of what is to come, they ignore it to their own peril. If you want to save yourself the issues that will arise with Linden’s continued effort of fraudulent behavior, and the continued effort of protecting such fraud for profit, you will heed the warning and remove your content from SL. When you leave, delete your inventory. And make sure you have xml copies of all of your works.

Linden isn’t going to come out and tell you what they are doing. They never have with the exception of the fraudulent advertisement years ago claiming one could “own virtual land”. They are not going to tell you anything about whom they really are. But I know. I know exactly the kind as I’ve fought their evil for years.

They won’t ask for your content. They are going to do what all governments, and corporations do when they want the rights to something they have no legal right to. They are going to do all they can to persuade you to “give up” your rights by making offers they don’t believe you would turn down. And the offers will be made future tense directed at the content that resides on their servers and services that “you” have legal rights to.

Before it’s over, Linden will merely state that they gave you something for your content to further their agenda of greed and they will use everything in their power to have control over your content. It’s not there yet, but it’s coming and for all the reasons I have said in this thread.

Listen for once. And remove your content from Second Life. You’ll save yourself the grief you have coming when Linden fails at the attempt of gaining legal access to what belongs to you. Don’t be so wrapped up in your second life, that you don’t understand what is happening in the real world. That is a trick of the adversary.

Remove your content in mass.
Linden can do nothing about it. And if they try to stop you, sue them in mass for breach of their own Terms of Service.

And people will do this.. however, it will backfire and make people even angrier. They don’t understand that Linden wants legal rights to your content for their own gain.

In a few years they won’t be able to give a sim away, much less get what they have been charging for years. Linden is fully aware of this.

When this happens, and it will happen due to their own greed, there won’t be a market for the thieving land baron robbers who sell, take back, and resell the simulator space over and over. And all of their so called investments will be “worthless” as it should be. So the virtual economy will continue to spiral into the sea. Just watch and mark my words of what I write. The people in SL whom are the thieves and barons that have robbed the platform of it’s real value have no talent. They won’t make it doing anything else but stealing, robbing, and being how they are. And linden will lose their business over it in the end due to the protection of the thievery that goes on with their platform.

It’s a classic case of the blind leading the blind.. they both fall into the ditch.

People won’t believe it when I state that they cannot even sleep over their own greed and fraud. But I know they don’t.

Do I wish for the their demise? Absolutely not, they do and don’t realize it. Simple lack of prophetic vision.

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I believe trinity is right, it’s just a way for them to tax the merchants without calling it a tax. And you know, if they want to charge us 10% to 15% per sale to allow us to sell our items, I’m ok with that. I pay the xtreet tax, and I don’t mind. Sure, it’s be nice to sell things and keep all the dough, but I’m a realist at heart. All this stuff takes money to run.

What I would like though, if or the Lab to just come out and say what they want to do. I really hate it when they do this crap, and claim to be involving the community when they already have their plans worked out, with the i’s dotted and t’s crossed. Then come to the community, and get ‘input’ so at least some of the sheeple are lead to believe they actually contributed because their input fell inline with what the Lab already had planned.

I wonder how many land barons are merchants on SLX?

Quietly swept under the carpet in the hope they don’t hear?

never satisfied with maintaing quality -just profitable growth and now linden labs have to squeeze more profit out of a declining market.

nothing new under the sun there

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