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There is nothing "being a good seller" about taking someone else's work, putting a markup on it, and selling it for a higher price than the original creator.
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What I meant by that is if they weren't good at selling things, or didn't put the effort into getting to a top store (which I'm sure you will argue doesn't require effort, but rather cheating, but that is an entirely different thread), then nobody would be buying the marked up items.
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It's been proven repeatedly that getting a top store in these times doesn't require a whole lot of effort. Not to say that *nobody* who has a top store HAS put in the effort, but the person who is doing this to nodgree, as proven by the circumstances presented in his original post, has not put in the effort, so that argument does not hold water here...but you already knew that because you said so yourself, but it is part of this discussion since it is the case here.
Regardless, even if they had put work into it, it still doesnt' mean that is why people are buying the marked up items, more likely it is as nodgree also said, that people just simply click on the top 1 or 2 houses and buy the item for whatever its marked at, not caring if anybody else has it cheaper because they can't be bothered to click on more than the top 10. If things were fair and equal, I'm fairly confident that his store would be in the top 20 at least, if not in the top 10, that is if the cheaters were eliminated.
I am just astounded that so many people are calling this a legal, ethical and or 'good business' practice, but yet find other things that are so closely related that its unbelievable, repugnant. Is it that you just don't *see* how the things are related, or what?
As I stated before, if nothing else it's a side of the times RL that is carrying over into SL, which is sad since so many people say they don't want SL to so closely resemble SL.
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There is nothing "being a good seller" about taking someone else's work, putting a markup on it, and selling it for a higher price than the original creator.
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What I meant by that is if they weren't good at selling things, or didn't put the effort into getting to a top store (which I'm sure you will argue doesn't require effort, but rather cheating, but that is an entirely different thread), then nobody would be buying the marked up items.
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It's been proven repeatedly that getting a top store in these times doesn't require a whole lot of effort. Not to say that *nobody* who has a top store HAS put in the effort, but the person who is doing this to nodgree, as proven by the circumstances presented in his original post, has not put in the effort, so that argument does not hold water here...but you already knew that because you said so yourself, but it is part of this discussion since it is the case here.
Regardless, even if they had put work into it, it still doesnt' mean that is why people are buying the marked up items, more likely it is as nodgree also said, that people just simply click on the top 1 or 2 houses and buy the item for whatever its marked at, not caring if anybody else has it cheaper because they can't be bothered to click on more than the top 10. If things were fair and equal, I'm fairly confident that his store would be in the top 20 at least, if not in the top 10, that is if the cheaters were eliminated.
I am just astounded that so many people are calling this a legal, ethical and or 'good business' practice, but yet find other things that are so closely related that its unbelievable, repugnant. Is it that you just don't *see* how the things are related, or what?

