Millions of dollars change hands in Second Life. Find out how to create scripts to sell items in your own Second Life store.
by Jeff Heaton
August 22, 2007
ommerce occurs in Second Life whenever money changes hands. Money, in Second Life, is the Linden Dollar. Although the Linden Dollar is not an actual currency, it can be freely exchanged for real-world currencies. Like many real-world currencies, the value of the Linden Dollar rises and falls against the US dollar. As of this writing, 1 US dollar buys approximately 186 Linden Dollars.
Second Life avatars exchange Linden Dollars in three different ways; by:
Directly transferring money to another avatar
Offering an item for sale
Using a script to process a "Pay" command
Transferring money directly to another avatar is the simplest of these three processes. To do that, you simply right-click on the other avatar and choose "Pay" from the popup menu. You can now transfer any amount of Linden Dollars you have available to that avatar.
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ommerce occurs in Second Life whenever money changes hands. Money, in Second Life, is the Linden Dollar. Although the Linden Dollar is not an actual currency, it can be freely exchanged for real-world currencies. Like many real-world currencies, the value of the Linden Dollar rises and falls against the US dollar. As of this writing, 1 US dollar buys approximately 186 Linden Dollars.
