Just when I was getting going again LL changes the rules on me.  I’ve had numerous people ask me ‘how do I get started selling things?’ or ‘how do I know if something to do well?’ and chief among my recommendations was always ‘put something up on XStreet’ and when I decided to change gears myself and give up my land and figure out what to do, its exactly what I did myself.  I kept my premium account mainly so that I would always have my mainland account and keep my little Xstreet box and be able to throw stuff up on the website and see what stuck.  Seymour was a benefit of that and the in-world store is a result of me knowing what would sell here and there and what would not.

The new rules that I am now going to be charged for just having items up on the site means that it will no longer be something I can use to get catalogs out to people or to distribute tools as I have in the past and makes a number of things much harder.  It also means I will have to re-think my strategy of what items get placed on XStreet (if any) and which become ‘in store exclusives’.

Frankly, this seems like a rather boneheaded move on LL’s part, but one that seems to be following a trend of late.  “Hey, let’s have some obscure office hours and then announce some stupid policy changes using those office hours as cover”.  Brillant.

I have half a mind to start a competing market place, it’s winter and I have some time.