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Setting Up Shop: Part 3 - Selling Your Creations

27 August, 2008

There are two main ways of selling your items, either via a simple box, or via a vendor system such as JEVN or hippoVEND. Obviously the vendor system is more expensive, as you would need to buy the vendor system you wish to use. However, the main advantage that a vendor has over a simple box, is that if SL is having problems and not delivering items, it is easy to spot if an item was not delivered and redeliver the purchased item.

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Setting Up Shop: Part 1 - Your Shop

21 July, 2008

There are three main places where you can sell items which you have created for SL:

SL Exchange charges anywhere between 3% - 5% for each item sold through it’s website and charges for featured listings, where as Onrez charges for featured listings but doesn’t charge any fees for selling the items. If you wish to find out more about these websites click on the links above.

For the remainder of this post, I will discuss selling items in world.

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Getting Started Making Clothes

26 June, 2008

There are three main ways of creating clothes for your SL avatar:

  1. By just using the Edit > Appearance menu within SL.
  2. By creating clothing with your preferred image/drawing programme and then uploading the images for L$10 each in to SL, and then using the Edit > Appearance menu within SL to complete making the item of clothing.
  3. By using prims to create clothing within SL.

There is also sculpted prims, but as I’ve not learnt anything about them and how to make clothing with them, that topic will need to be left to a later time. The use of sculpted prims for clothing isn’t currently widespread.

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