tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post8443095459891917674..comments2023-12-14T18:17:52.957-08:00Comments on The Train Wreck Love Life: a figure waits in the shadow, someone drowned in the lakeEmilly Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-14912230876734780212011-04-29T16:02:35.368-07:002011-04-29T16:02:35.368-07:00You may be right.
It was always the breakdown bet...You may be right.<br /><br />It was always the breakdown between the main two services: SLBoutique was simplified for shopping, SLExchange was harder--both to list, and to track things down--but had more merchant tools.<br /><br />Then both were bought out, and all the chatter that SLX was going to offer a way to buy *anything* on *any* virtual grid--for which I think they were actually working on the code and structuring when purchased--fell by the wayside with the reconstruction that became XStreet SL, and, finally, SL Marketplace--which seems to have fewer merchant resources and occasionally very glitchy search features in exchange for higher prices, from everything I've been able to map out.<br /><br />And zero mention of *ever* offering goods and services for other grids.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-54674422109952636972011-04-29T15:47:35.264-07:002011-04-29T15:47:35.264-07:00Quite some time back, I had seen XStreet SL as bei...Quite some time back, I had seen XStreet SL as being in the best position to offer goods on multiple grids, taking payment in L$ for items elsewhere. Around the time that it changed its name from SL Exchange, there were implications that it was planning something along those lines.<br /><br />I still half suspect one reason LL bought it was to keep that from happening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com