Second Life Marketplace is coming soon – Transition Plans

We  are rapidly approaching the launch of the SL Marketplace! We will continue to make weekly announcements to keep everyone informed as this  happens.

Today, we posted to the Community blog letting everyone know that changes are  coming. We know that this transition greatly affects you, and we’ll do our best to keep you informed on what the next few weeks will bring.

Transition Plans
Here is a quick overview of what to expect in the next few months while we  move toward retiring XStreetSL and launching SL Marketplace. Dates are supplied where available.

• XStreetSL Feature Enhancements suspended – Tomorrow, September 1st, will be the  last day to purchase either homepage or category feature enhancements on  XStreetSL  Please check out the offerings on the SL Marketplace site, As there are even more options for feature enhancement. Feature  enhancements on XstreetSL will not be migrated to the new marketplace.
  
  
• XStreetSL banner ad sales retired – Soon, you will no longer be able to purchase banner ad subscriptions on XStreetSL.
  
  
• In October: XStreetSL Linden dollar exchange trading suspended. – All market trades that are not filled will be closed and the funds returned.
  
  
• XStreetSL new listing creation closed – As of 9/5/2010, XstreetSL will no longer allow for new listings to be  created, and the Commerce Team will focus on migrating all remaining  content to the new marketplace.
  
  
• XStreetSL will have links added for customer to choose if they want to buy the item on the new marketplace.
  
  
• XStreetSL Items will no longer be available for purchases on October 6th 2010. -  If there are links to Xstreet SL detail pages on blogs or articles  those links will automatically refresh to the linked product on the new  marketplace.
  
  
• XStreetSL sales history, account history will no longer be available after December 1st 2010.
  
  
• XStreetSL RSS feeds will be replaced by Marketplace feeds
  
  
• XStreetSL links in SecondLife.com changed to Marketplace – The links in the Second Life web site will be updated so they point to the SL Marketplace.
  
• SL Marketplace is out of beta!
  
  

Temporary Real Estate Listing Solution
The  Commerce Team is working on a free temporary solution for the Merchants  who are currently using the XstreetSL real estate listings. The current  listings will not be migrated to the new Marketplace, but there will be  a home in the category tree for Resident to resident real estate  listings until a long term solution is created.

Designing a place for animated GIF Images
In  the next two weeks we will update the product detail pages and include a  place for Merchants to include an animated GIF image to help illustrate  how products like gestures appear inworld.

More to come.
The Commerce Team

Quick Links:
SL Marketplace Help Pages
Deutsch
Français
日本語
Português