SLexchange ~ the non storefront way to sell in Secondlife

Around the time I built DarkRayne I started devouring information about Secondlife looking for ways to improve my building skills and sell what I was beginning to create. I didn't have the money or ability to pay for a full sim display area for these fantastic buildings that were swirling in my head, and I wasn't sure that they would sell from a retail store anyway. It was a problem looking for a solution....

I found my soution at SLexchange (SLX for short) which is a web enabled merchant listing site for items in Secondlife. The neat thing for me was I didn't have to rent space in a mall or find a store location at the time I was just starting out with my products, as I built I could put my products on the web and they could be viewed by people at work (not that I'm guilty of that.... no, not me) or home or wherever. The beauty of listing services like this (SL Boutique is another) is that you don't have to fight the lag or downtime of Secondlife in order to purchase things you want from the favorite designers that are listed there. Just in the year or so that I've been with them I have seen their merchant list explode and they are genuinely good people too.

They do take a fairly small commission if you are considering listing your items with them, though I now have my own store and design center in world I often still list my items on SLX first, or offer them at a discount to gauge reaction. (Just a hint on new items, usually I post them on SLX for a discount for a couple of weeks at least.)

I'm still proud to be an SLX merchant and always will be.