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Originally Posted by
Rednosty
Rupert! Theres one thing really worring me about the Master plan! You idea is to set up a Mall and rent the spaces to fellow ebid sellers? Correct? With direct links to there ebid Stores etc. Ermmmmmm Whats to stop anyone copying it? OK you call your the Ebid Mall someone else with Money and the know how can set up a mall within days and call it Ebid Auction House.! AMybe charging cheaper rent (if any!) therefore destroying all your hard work in Minutes. I hate to put a downer on things as I love SL. Just wondered if there is anything you can do to stop this happenning by the way I have just over 4k for the pot!
Hi Nosty.
To be perfectly honest, I can't see it would be worth a competitor buying a parcel of land, paying the extra monthly tier fees, building a mall, contacting the advetisers (which I am sure would have a certain amount of loyalty to the project), uploading all the advertisers logos (bearing in mind that we will set the Permissions for everything on Group land other than promotional freebies, as 'no-copy', 'no-transfer' etc). They would also have to charge something Nosty, unless they are nuts. SL accounts cost money, and so do Monthly land tier fees (above 512m). Then as you know there are upload fees in L$ for any picture/logo. I honestly can't see a problem. The idea of the mall, is not to make a huge profit out of fellow eBidders, but to cover costs, and a little bit towards the time setting up the individual stores. The price for each store, should be less, the greater the amount of advertisers we get.
I'm actualy in the process of running some figures though, and working it out now. I have no idea how many will wish to advertise, but we are hoping it will be a fairly large proportion of the Forum regulars. My sales (and NPB LOL!) have gone up since this Project, and Lottie has also said the same, so I am confident that we CAN imporve sales for eBidders.
Well done on all your L$ Nosty! We're getting there! I won L$ 203 last night on Sploders, and will be Splodering again soon.
All the best, Simon.
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