Metaverse Exchange offers the capability to sell items in both Second Life and Legend City. It is another one that I am completely new to. You can find it at
www.metaverseexchange.com
Fees
Hmm, good question! I think it's the standard 5% cut but I can't actually find that on the website anywhere.
Other Services
There is a fairly active forum but there do not appear to be networked servers or similar.
Reporting
There is a simple link from your account page, so a couple of clicks from the front page, that looks like it lists your sales, who bought, when etc. By default this shows the last week's sales but changing the dates is easy enough.
Setting up
The process for setting up on MER is more like that for XStreetSL, although there are some wrinkles. You put the items (up to 64) in a server box in world. You go to the website and you can upload pictures from your hard drive (rather than from the server) to associate with the item. You can also set a price here. Then it gets trickier - you have to go to a different page to edit the words part of the listing. That struck me as not intuitive, nor easy. If this was the only vendor system I was using, it would save L$10/texture upload here.
The system also insists (it's not clear how it's enforced mind) that if an object varies by only one thing, e.g. colour, you list them as a single item with variants. This would apply to my viewers for example, there's a copy version and a transfer version. Searching the inventories suggests this does not appear that way to the customer though. I can certainly find 20 different colours of the same dress listed if I search for dress.
And it is worth noting that you can associate multiple avatars with a single account too. I'm not sure why you would, but you can. It might be good for a group sales programme, or for testing deliveries and permissions to an alt.
Other Comments
I set up one item and went for a test delivery. Before I started writing this review. It's still not arrived. That's not good.
You can't search directly by merchant, but if you find something they sell, you can click on a "view all by merchant" link. There are no tags/keywords. This is presented as a feature - it stops keyword spamming - however it does mean you have to know what you are looking for is called.
It's 30 minutes now and no delivery. That's a test delivery when I'm standing in the same sim as the object that should be making the delivery. It doesn't inspire confidence in the ability to deliver to others.
