bladyblue

Oh, great. Start off your post with the old 'Reading Comprehension' personal attack. Now the rest of your post doesnt matter at all.

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Kara Spengler

Why though? No matter what the price is they still need to click 'buy' to get the item. If myself and someone else made equivalent items, put in the same exact amount of time, then they sold for $100L and myself at $0L where is the real difference? Or are you saying greed makes one a merchant? I think a few content creators might want to have a word with you about you calling them greedy.

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Tyabela

Wow the elitist attitude is strong in this one.

Kara sets her product for SALE for 0L. (she merchandises her product right there)
Someone BUYS it for 0L.
She IS a merchant. Plain and simple.

She is a merchant who chooses not to make profit. That does not make her any LESS of a merchant.

Qie Niangao

Then how do they do random payouts? Quantum decay?

Your hero says right up front that his 'sploder contraption chooses recipients of its "big winner fund" randomly.

Nonetheless, that's no more nor less "gambling" than many other devices the Lindens have chosen to ignore, for now. Of course, they change their minds all the time -- the Zyngo guy was whining to all who would listen about how he had to change his slot machines, not that long ago.

If we go down this path long enough, we could end up with all 'sploders banned. Not that I'd care.

bladyblue

I don't think so. You have to earn income from something to be considered a merchant.

Lucifer Baphomet

So, who pays you Lias?

(I'm referring to you in your capacity as a bullshit merchant)

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Lucifer Baphomet

And actually if we want to get technical about our definition of merchant... the only merchant in SL is LL via the marketplace..

A merchant is an intermediate step between a producer and a customer. Merchant's don't make anything, they move and sell goods from producers to customers.

Beezle Warburton

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KT Kingsley

I think Lias is winning: there are still ostensibly intelligent people trying to argue with her logically, and even those declaring "don't feed the trolls" continue to do so.

I don't see this as a good thing, by the way.

Lucifer Baphomet

You mean winning in the sense that Charlie Sheen is winning?

Tyabela

Naw I just say what I have to say and walk away.

She isn't worth the effort to argue with honestly. Folks like her just argue for the sake of arguing.

KT Kingsley

Along those lines; maybe more in the way that Michael Palin wins against John Cleese in the dead parrot sketch.

Amanda Dallin

I have no idea about the sploder this particular "merchant" sells but I use one in my club that does not pay out randomly. It flashes a light and the person who clicks and pays it closest to the flash is the winner. Every time you pay it, it chats how close that payment came after a flash. The only thing random is when it flashes. It is used and people have told me they like this type of sploder over the purely random ones.

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Potosi

That's why I muted her several pages back. Now if only a few more would do the same she would quickly fade away.

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Da5id Abbot

I always liked this version of the sentiment:

KT Kingsley

Well crap, Da5id: I used to be a big fan of Oscar Wilde, but clearly George Bernard Shaw understands modern internet forums far better.

Ceka Cianci

i'm quoting this again cause it kind of got burried a little and i forgot to add somethng hehehe

i was talking with one of the group members that IM'd me yesterday when i went in world..
they tested out this hud..
this is what popped up about two different people in the group..the land one must have been where they were at when they did the test..
it was in IM's not in general chat..the hud wearer showed them what it said..

[8:36] GRIEFER WARNING: ******* ********* is blacklisted by Voodoo for being a member of Greenzone Griefer Group and is nearby.

[8:36] GRIEFER WARNING: This land is owned by ****** *******, who is blacklisted by Voodoo for being a member of Greenzone Griefer Group. The parcel is not safe.

bladyblue

That's some clever scripting. Psyke's Personal Security Armband has been able to do that since 2005.

Kara Spengler

So if I set something to 1L then put it back to 0 afterwards I gain merchant 'status'?

So the difference between a merchant and a non-merchant is just 1L? Not even a penny? So why again are merchants all-hailed in your posts if you can just roll an alt to do it?

Ceka Cianci

basically someone that sells to a consumer is a retail merchant..
someone who buys and sell in like a market or trades is a wholes sale merchant..
anyone that buys lindens could be considered a wholesale merchant really..
we buy the lindens then trade them for stuffs hehehehe

bladyblue

Kara......really?

DoctorZen

Logged in for the first time in weeks just to say, "WOOHOO! I MADE IT ONTO A LIST!" And I did it with an alt! A dirty coffeepotting gleefur alt what griefs by... doing NOTHING WHATSOEVER!

That is all.

—Doctor Zen
Resident Nobody, 0L Merchant and retired cabaret chanteuse.

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Da5id Abbot

Wilde and Shaw were both excellent wits and fine Irishmen. There are a number of points where I can't say I agree with their views, but I can't help sometimes thinking that both of them seem to have seen the Internet coming.

Shaw totally wins on the beard front, though.

Casey Pelous

Or maybe Constance Lloyd ...

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Roxy Couturier

No, it'd be more like...

"Why do you hate the candy industry? They are innocent merchants. They shouldn't be slandered here on SLU."

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