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The rise of VendeX
By Celebrity Trollop | June 6, 2006
Archangel of Scripting, Sol Columbia released her Lindex rate adjusting vending system over the weekend, and since it’s been introduced it’s been spreading around top designer’s stores: ETD, Celestial Studios, Dazzle, and Adam-n-Eve to name just a handful.
I used Starley’s VendeX based vendor last night to buy her awesome Infini-Kini set, priced at US$3 for the whole 45 piece mega-set. (A bargain!) This transition reminds me when I was visiting Russia. Often restaurants, hotels, or other retail stores in Moscow and Saint Petersburg would price their goods in “dollar equivalents” rather than rubles because the market value of the ruble was so fluid day-to-day. You still paid in rubles, just the precise amount of rubles was set based on the exchange rate market’s previous close.
Sol’s system fetches the current Lindex average every hour, and updates in world prices every 24 hours based on a fixed dollar amount set in the item’s description. I think an interesting side effect of more and more content creators moving to something like this will be a new consciousness among consumers of the daily exchange rate flux — something most of us only think about when we’re buying Lindens off the Lindex.
Topics: Business of Fashion, Classified Highlights |
Set price of goods in $USD and they pay in L$inden with Vendex
Heres a good use of HTTP, via Second Style Fashionista: Sols system fetches the current Lindex average every hour, and updates…
Posted by: VTOR - Virtual TO Reality on June 8th, 2006 at 4:40 am