At least that’s my experience. Maybe I’m bugged and am the only one that this happens to.

As a designer & shopper carrying around a giant whopping inventory, I have a different opinion on a few of them.

Landmarks:
I hate when LMs are included. Because of the “ARGH Pop-Up!” factor when buying. Because store coordinates are rarely ever permanent. And because I have a GIANT inventory, the last thing I need are 150 LMs to the same location. I tend to shop a lot from the same places over and over. The first thing I do is delete any LMs if they are included. If I do forget where I got something, it’s easy enough to check creator and look them up.

Ad Textures:
I included these for a time. I quit. Not because I’m lazy. It takes no time at all to drop that sucker in the box along with the merchandise. I quit as soon as the scammers started defrauding newbies with boxes labelled as secondhand (CS) Item – Colorname that were decorated with a photo obtained through a purchase from me, but which sold nothing more than flat white default slider clothes renamed to something they were not. I would LOVE to have a photo of each item, but I don’t fault designers for not including them anymore, as I certainly won’t. Instead, each time I buy something new and try it on that first time, I grab a snapshot and drop it in the box so I don’t forget.

Now I have the urge to organize my inventory. Anyone wanna help?

As for the texture image of the outfit, yes, I could make one of myself. However 1) I’m at least as lazy as the designer and 2) they had to make a texture for the ad so why not put it in the distribution pack?

I do have a mini pet peeve along these lines. It tweaks me that designers use fancy schmancy names for colors. Instead of naming a color “blue”, they name it any number of synonyms. This is only a mini pet peeve as I append a basic color to the name of the folder or an item (if a multicolor pack). This makes searching for an outfit that is “blue” easier. From there, I can decide what shade, variety, or flavor of blue I want.

Now I delete them religiously (thereby lightening my inventory items) and simply go through the designer’s profile picks.

Same with textures, takes SO long to load in SL, and I keep snaps on my local drive of outfits.

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for being good at doing all the things most helpful in this article

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Going further with Jonquille’s comment, I’m all in favor of notecards with lots of info in the folders. Where to buy info for stuffs shown in the ad, what inspired the item and it’s name, even how much it costs so I can tell other people when I forget.

Never use the word “worn” in the name of a no modify item. Lots of us filter our inventory on the word “worn” to quickly see what we have on and it irks me to no end to see some no mod piece of clothing show up in that filter that I can’t rename.

If someone is at my place shopping, I assume they know where they are, and can use Create Landmark to mark it if they want to come back and/or spread the word. If not, they can look up my profile, or pretty much just port into the middle of Gallinas and they’ll end up in my shop. I know that adding landmarks would be better for business, but to me it feels an awful lot like landmark spam. Again, that’s a personal pet peeve, so your mileage may vary.

One thing I do that I’d like to see catch on is to offer an Info notecard, upon clicking, which will give people landmarks to the places where I get skins, hair, accessories, shoes, and anything else I use in my ads that aren’t made by me. I think, if they’re good enough for me to use, they’re good enough to endorse.