Recently, many Second Life merchants have started removing their items in XstreetSL.com in response to Second Life’s new Roadmap on Managing Freebies in XstreetSL. The roadmap includes adding listing fees on both freebies and regular items listed in XstreetSL.com. This is the Commerce Team’s way of reducing clutter in XstreetSL.com’s marketplace.
A monthly listing fee of 99L$ will be charged for Freebies and 10L$ will be charged for items priced 1L$ and above. For me, I see these charges as additional cost in operating a small business in Second Life. For example, I have, more or less, 300 active items listed for sale in XstreetSL.com. Multiplying that with 10L$ will get a result of 3,000L$ which is almost twice the amount of my monthly land rental fee of 1,600L$. (more…)
