- Hair: Vita's Boudoir
- Eyelashes: Wasabi Pills
- Pants and sweater: Egoisme
- Belt: Sole
- Earrings: ICoN
- Necklace: n-creation
- Pose: iMagz (AO)
I really like to shop for clothes and play around with outfits.. except that shopping in SL often is a rather frustrating experience. And from what I've seen on blogs, creators love to wallow in complaints about content theft and the downfall of the economy, but blissfully ignore the often abysmal shopping experience of customers.
Disorientation and frustration. Your shop is a huge mess. No signs, no tp board, and to add insult to injury, you have some gorgeous pics on display.. and make it a tedious journey to find the shown dress in your shop. And yeah, I have learned to walk spiral staircases, but I'm sure many new residents simply will give up.
Boxing it up. Oh great, it's a box. What am I supposed to find in it? What layers will I find inside? How many prims has this dress? And where can I unbox that thing, or can I just wear and click it? Seriously, what is wrong with you creators that you think it's a cute idea to hide from me what I will get, and even make it hard to unbox it? It takes only a few seconds to rez an item and click on it, can't you at least allow rez with autoreturn set to one minute?
Lies, damn lies and concealment. You're selling "Alta Moda". Your brand is famous, the vendor pic looks fabulous, and yeah, I bought that dress. What the vendor didn't say is: It's only useful for photo sessions, and only with carefully selected poses. There's no chance in hell you can wear it with an AO, because that single prim going from breasts to thighs will inevitably look all wrong.
Customers are The Evil Itself. You (insert famous hair creator) used Redzone long after almost everyone agreed that it's a flawed and bad idea. You (insert several creators) put scripts in your stuff to destroy it when rezzed on ground - even if it's a collar where people might want to put in collar scripts. You (at least one idiot) set up scripts to eject me if I don't click something to confirm that I can read and hence am not a bot. Care to tell me why I should buy from someone who tells me that I am considered, first and foremost, a potential thief?
You gave me your money, but it's still mine! If I buy something, I own it.. so I should be able to give it away to others, right? No, you don't like that, so you set permissions to "no transfer". Of course I understand your reasons.. you're scared to lose a sale when I give it to a friend, or to an alt.
This is especially hilarious with roleplay items that are supposed to be given to someone as part of a roleplay.. if you create such stuff, you should be aware that it's not cool to break the flow to tp into your shop. I'll tell you a secret.. the only things I buy more than once are "transfer" items. Because I can use them within a roleplay scene.
And for the record - Egoisme (see outfit above) sells clothes with transfer permission. I don't intend to give them away, but the simple fact that the creator doesn't try to rip me off makes me feel better to buy from them.
