Tattoo and a watch sold - Thank you Wrager Creeley

Immediately after its opening, the shop had its first visitor: Wrager Creeley. He bought the tattoo, for which I had no copy perms, so no more tattoo for sale. I replaced the tattoo with a blondie female skin. Wrager also bought a watch. Thanks to him for being my first customer.

As you can see, Wrager is a fan of HUGE and non human avatars. The shop is in fact the mini box behind him, and you can see a corner if the pyramid watch vendor.

One big question then... how will he wear the tattoo and the watch ?

Mini Opening of my Mini Shop

Today is the mini opening day for my shop. I can't call it Grand Opening given how simple and basic is the shop ! You will find three things there: my polynesian tattoo which is for direct sale, a pyramid (what an original shape...) selling watches for 2 L$ each, and a box shaped (even more original...) donation box.

I made all of them myself, and design was not exactly my first concern. But they are all operative now, and if you have any trouble with them, please let me know. These were my first scripted objects, and I will later build a notecard distributor for giving away good campsites to the group members.

The shop is on the first floor in Club Josephina, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gula/73/244/114

First interest transfer done - new bank ?

According to my new strategy, I went to Midas Bank today to withdraw the interests from my 10'000 L$ deposit, which were 54 L$ for 5 days. I transferred these 54 L$ by APEZ, where they won't generate any interest, but will be safe.

As every week, Midas defined a new interest rate, which is 0.16% daily, so I can expect 112 L$ until next saturday. I also received, via a comment, some information about a new bank offering 0.30% daily, and I'm waiting for additional contacts.

Campsites directory management

The issue of bad campsites, i.e. non paying ones, but also of sharing good spots has been in the air for a long while now. I did get some hints from fellow readers and group members, and I guess it's time now to build something.

One must be careful when identifying the objectives in such a project, to avoid any possible misuse. The point here is that I don't want to create a system which campsite owners could use to attack competitors by doing faked negative reports.

Another issue is the very high rate of change on the camping situation. Despite some campsite remain open for weeks, some are created, changed, and closed daily, if not hourly. A directory would then never be accurate. Moreover, re-visiting all campsites to ensure they're still as described would be an enormous task.

My idea is then to publish reports of camping sessions, not just campsites, and to give positive feed-backs only, not negative. The principle would be that campers report (to me, to a special avatar, via an object, ... ?) the place they did camp in, and the amount they made if they are happy with a place.

All the reports would then be compiled and made available to "Free Money from JohnLight" group members in a notecard that could be obtained either via my inventory or a distributor in my shop to be.

The good point in this system is that no one could use it to attacks a competitor campsite. I won't be possible either to publish wrong positive reports, because such fake reports would always come from a single reporter and won't get lot of credibility because no one would confirm them by additional reports.

On the other hand, good sites would get confirmed quickly by other people, so they would increase their credibility. If I can build an automated and dynamic system, this could be as accurate as the reports getting in.

Any comment is welcome.