Black Friday Sales in Second Life!
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Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving and is known to be the day people go to Walmart and fight over a t-shirt for $2. I am not usually a black friday shopper in RL but I do enjoy shopping virtually, either online or even just in SL.
This year I’ve also decided to join the fun and set up an Advertising Sale on my blog. All of my advertising rates will be reduced by 50% until December 15th. Click over to my Advertising Page for all the details! If you already have an ad campaign on my blog and want to take advantage of the sale, feel free to do so, I will just add the extra days to your campaign.
If you usually visit my blog and have an ad blocker enabled, may I please request that you support me and disable the ad blocker for my site. I promise I do not have any popups or intrusive ads in between posts. The only ads you will see on my blog will be in the sidebar. -> Right at the top you will find my Second Life advertisers which consists of designers, land owners and even bloggers. Please click on the ads and explore their stores and sites, you might discover something you weren’t aware of before!
12 Days of Savings
Linden Lab is having a special marketplace event called ’12 Days of Savings’ where they have invited some of the top-selling merchants on the Marketplace to collaborate with them and set a few of their items on sale. They have listed the merchants that they are collaborating with in their blog post, however, I noticed when I did a search for ’12 days of Savings’ on marketplace, other merchants have joined the fun and have put some of their items on sale. I really appreciate this initiative that Linden Lab has taken. I hope they continue to do these kinds of promotions and get even more merchants involved. It’s a great way to discover new creators!
Black Friday Sales in Second Life
Aside from my advertising sale and Linden Lab’s 12 days of savings, there are numerous Black Friday sales going on across the grid. Here are some ways you can find them:
- SeraphimSL – Check out Seraphim’s Black Friday Post
- Black Friday Deals in Second Life 2015 Group on Facebook – There is a group on facebook that you can join and share your Black Friday sales.
- Flickr – Search for Black Friday Sale in Second Life on Flickr and you’ll find tons of posts from SL merchants!
If you know of more sales going on that are not listed here, feel free to leave the links to them in the comments!
If you already own everything on the grid and are looking for something different to wear, check out the new store Goji! Goji opened its doors on November 16th and is a collaboration between Janie Marlowe and Damien Fate. Not only is Goji clothing extremely well done and adorable, but it comes in a wide variety of sizes to fit Maitreya Lara, Slink Physique + Hourglass, Belleza Isis + Freya as well as standard sizing XXS to M.
I’m wearing the Goji Crimped Disco dress. You have to see this dress live inworld because the materials on this thing are amazing! I did a little gif, but it doesn’t do it justice. Definitely pick up a DEMO of this dress and check it out yourself inworld.
Here are a few links to Goji:
> Goji Mainstore SLurl
> Goji Marketplace Store
> Goji Blog
> Goji on Plurk
> Goji on Flickr and Flickr Group
> Goji on Facebook
I hope you all have had a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving today with your family and friends. I’m still stuffed with Turkey but it was so worth it! No matter how much chaos and turmoil there is in this world, it’s good to take a moment to be thankful and appreciative of the things we do have in our lives. I have been surrounded by family and friends all day and it’s been a wonderful feeling. I’m hoping your day was filled with much love and happiness as well.
Stay safe if you venture out Black Friday shopping in RL this weekend, and happy shopping! <3
Credits:
*Mesh Body: Maitreya Mesh Body – Lara V3.4 by Onyx LeShelle
Mesh Head: Logo Alex v3.0 Omega by Maximillion Grant
*Skin Applier: Glam Affair Sia Applier for Logo by Aida Ewing (flickr) (in satellite store now)
*Eyes: IKON Triumph Eyes – Oxidation by Ikon Innovia
*Hair: TRUTH HAIR Bronwyn by Truth Hawks (On Sale)
*Dress: Goji Dress Crimped – Disco – Lara by GojiMojo
*Shoes: JD – Friday Maitreya by davidefre
*Tattoo: Letis Tattoo :: Papiliones by Leti Hax
Rings: Izzie’s – Celestial Midi Rings silver by Izzie Button
*Necklace+Bracelet: [MANDALA]Pearl-Rain-Season3(BLACK) by kikunosuke Eel (on sale)
*Pose: Diesel Works Groove by Rogan Diesel
Location: Woods Club
Did you hear they are going to cannibalize Second Life? Maybe we should wait buying clothes now because Ebbie said that he is going to kill Second Life and make everybody want to go to their new world Sansar. Maybe that is why they offer now clothes for cheap?
I dunno I am so confused. I want to stay in Second Life I do not want to go to Sansar.
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@Berry:
“If you already own everything on the grid…”
*eyeballs heaving inventory* Yes, I do!
“…and are looking for something different to wear…”
*eyeballs ready-and-waiting wallet* Yes, I am!
“…check out the new store Goji!”
Yay! Okay! *opens Marketplace link, looking for menswear*
*sigh* Oh well. I’ll just keep looking :p
@Talaina:
I don’t know which Lab Chat you watched, but it clearly wasn’t the same Lab Chat that I watched.
Ebbe Linden: “I would expect to see us to continue to maintain Second Life from a marketing perspective, and development, etc., for a long time after Sansar starts to reveal itself.”
That does not sound like Ebbe is planning to “kill Second Life” and “make everybody” go to Project Sansar. In actual fact, he has said repeatedly in many interviews, that Second Life will NOT be closing when Sansar is up and running.
Think about it from a business perspective for a moment: Linden Lab have a hugely successful platform with a very large and dedicated userbase. They will soon be opening a new venture but they have no idea how it will go over with the general public, or with their current dedicated SL userbase. From a business standpoint, it would make no sense whatsoever to shut down the successful platform in favour of the new untried platform, not for many years until (and unless) the new platform takes off so stratospherically that Linden Lab can balance the books and make a profit from that new platform alone.
As for the cheap clothing: people are offering clothes “for cheap” because it’s Black Friday in reality. They’ve been doing that kind of thing (mirroring real life sales and events) for the entire eight and a half years that I’ve been a Second Life resident. It has nothing to do with some mythical closure of Second Life. Some people have asserted over and over again during all the time I’ve been inworld that SL will close because of this or that. Something new comes along and people start saying that thing will spell the end of SL. It’s all smoke and mirrors. You just keep having fun in SL and don’t worry about the Chicken Littles who seem to enjoy yelling that the sky is falling.
You want to stay in Second Life and don’t want to go to Sansar? Then stay in Second Life and don’t go to Sansar when it opens. It’s really quite simple 🙂
Talaina, there has always been rumors that SL is going to close and Ebbe has not said that he is going to kill Second Life (as shared above from Skell.)
Usually people are in a virtual world as a hobby, for entertainment purposes or to make money. While they are here they spend money on their avatars as entertainment. If you are too afraid of what is going to happen tomorrow, then don’t spend the money, easy as that.
Skell, I’m sorry! LOL I have been really bad about covering mens fashion these days, will try and cover something for you guys soon!
He didnt?
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2015/11/second-life-versus-sansar.html#more
Right, he DIDN’T say he will kill SL. If you watch the whole interview on Lab Chat and not take the line out of context, you will see that he has every intention of running SL for as long as he can. He just admitted that the cannibalization aspect is possible and real, never said it was imminent. Also, NWN loves to report that SL is closing every few months, nothing new.
Happy Thanksgiving to you too. I’ve saw the new store Goji and it’s really amazing, I think it will be my new favorite store. I love when I see something very nice made and full of creativity.
The two affirmations are not incompatible nor contradicted each other :
1. SL will be maintain along Sansar.
2. If Sansar is successful (and it should or what’s point to launch it?), then there’ll be a migration effect which soon or late will cannibalize SL. Combined with the competition with other VR, they want SL users to migrate on Sansar rather than on other platforms. Makes sense and doesn’t contradict that they’ll keep SL up as long as it’s viable.
The Black Friday picture really made me laugh. I tend to shop like that. Haha.
CheriColette
WOW that was fun, and got distracted taking so many photos, but back here with my meme. Love all the others too.
Bugger…its been so long, I forgot where to put the photo title in the url!
” It’s a great way to discover new creators!” like Gizza, Mandala, Truth! Never heard of them! Now Marketplace best selling is filled with 50 pages of 12 creators. Wow. That collaboration is surely for a good cause which is: a) LL donates the revenue b) Those creators did so much for Second Life, they truly deserved that triple income c) There are so many unknown creators that are featured now on MP pages 1034 and following. Thank you LL
Eva, please don’t cherry-pick my words and use them to be patronizing. I had a sentence before that one:
“I hope they continue to do these kinds of promotions and get even more merchants involved. It’s a great way to discover new creators!”
When I said it’s a great way to discover new creators, I meant the part where I said ‘get even more merchants involved when they do it again.’ This was their first time doing this sort of thing, at least it’s a step.
If you want to complain about everything LL does, by all means, go right ahead. Just don’t use my words out of context to support your argument.
Cheri, thank you for doing the meme!
I did not want to attack your article by picking out sentences. I wanted to state that this whole “experiment” by LL only supports 12 already best-selling creators which go home with 20-50k US$ a month anyway. It is giving them an exclusive e-mail promotion to round about 60 million addresses while other creators dont get that free promotion and getting dragged even more into the depths of Marketplace listings. For me LL is a service provider (they stated this over and over again) and now this. Make up your own mind about it.
I enjoy the challenge Berry, gives me a reason to get out the camera other than for self portrait.
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As a new creator in SL, I agree with Strawberry. These events encourage small, one person owned stores to try to get out there. When events like this happen, it’s easier to get on board with. After all, no one might hear about my own little sale, but they sure as heck will be expecting this one. Advertising is hard, but word of mouth has been my friend so far. Black Friday has been exhausting setting up for, but hopefully worth it. Might get a few happy customers and I’m happy with that. Looking forward now to doing a spot of shopping for myself.