Whats Goin' on IMVU? Vol. 6 [3-29-09]

The last Whats Goin' on IMVU? March kids.

First Off: F*ck You Pay Me!

If you don't know, I sell my credits often. When I say "often", I am not kidding. Within any given week I have been known to sell my credits 7-9 times. I had dealt with the credit reseller "IMVU Pay". Everything was going great for a few months. They have better resell rates than any reseller I have researched. Their payments back then were not instant, but less than 5 days which wasn't too bad because I sold every day.

One month, they got ripped defrauded out of over $10,000. I was not mad at that, that sh*t happens sometimes. What made me mad was they never told the members of the website. They left us hanging: they didn't pick up their phones, they didn't respond to e-mails... Nothing. Then when they did respond, they made excuses for months and promises they did not keep. They even had a sick sense a humor and joked to us that "you will get paid sometime this century." I didn't find that funny because they owe me hundreds of dollars and some people they owe thousands of dollars. I even reported them to the BBB, and they did not co-operate with them.

This week, I found out that their site's security certificate expired and they may be getting "new owners" which means we may never get our money! This is one thing I have been mad about for about a half a year now and if you wanna see what I have to say about it, look it up here in the IMVU Pay Group here on IMVU. DO NOT USE IMVUPAY.COM!!!


Second Off: AP Shoes?

Last week I submitted these Nike Dunk Hi "Tropical Breeze" for female avatars. These shoes were "created" by TWIGGY4mdaBAY and I just brought them to IMVU's Virtual Reality. They passed Peer Review with 9 Passes and 1 Fail... Keep in mind this is a pair of shoes. Then, maybe a solid 2 hours after these shoes passed PR, someone flagged them. For what? I am not sure. If you have been flagged before, you know Customer Service then checks the flagged product to see if the complaint is legit or not then decides what happens to the product. CS decided to not only mark the shoes as Access Pass Only, but they also Locked them in the catalog. "Locked" means that I cannot make them invisible in the catalog. They are stuck there as AP.

So I, for the first time ever, am challenging this rating. I think the reason I was flagged in the first place was because the picture I have in the description may not fit the minimum coverage guide. So basically: because she had no top on, the shoes are AP? That don't make sense to me. I will update on what happens when something happens.

U.N.K.L.E. "Heaven" Music Video

If you notice one thing about my IMVU Home Page, you might notice a variety of songs. Different generes, different sounds, and usually tracls you have never heard. I am always getting asked what track was plying on my page. The thing is, it is not one track on my page, its hundreds (400+) on a playlist. But I am the type to listen to almost anything that is not newage pop/stuff played on the radio (I love 80's pop music ironically).

I came across this track by U.N.K.L.E. entitled "Heaven". Now, I don't know know a lot about U.N.K.L.E., but I do know that he/they make music and possibly design clothing fashions. The song itself is pretty nice but the music video is ill. I believe I already saw the concept of the video in either a Girl Skateboard Company video or a Lakai video. The concept is dope. The website that uploaded the video has it in hi-def so it looks hella clean. Check it out below.

P.S. be on the lookout for U.N.K.L.E. SB Dunks Hi for both male and female avatars!

*NEW* Product Pricing "Round 1": Male Tops

Browsing through my catalog, I noticed hella inconsistancy in pricing for both male and female products. I do try and be fair with my pricing and, in general, I only make 185cr - 210cr per sale of anything. That means even though you may shelf out 615cr for my new tee, I only get 200cr. I am far from ripping people off.

But, for a more professional feel, I plan to roll out new pricing guidelines for my products. The plan is every weekend from now on, I work on one area of things (Male Tops, Male Shoes, Female Outfits, etc.) and post the new prices in my weekly IMVU update.

This weekend's will go through the week because I just now thought of this idea. When I go through all catagories, I will simply stick to those prices on new products. In general you will be saving credits vs. my old pricing.


Here is the plan for Male Tops:

- New Tees Der. from DesireSucker Mesh = 615cr.
- Short-Sleeve Tees Der. from sanejack Mesh = 675cr.
- Long-Sleeve Tees Der. from sanejack Mesh = 700cr.
- V-Neck Tees Der. from sanejack Mesh = 685cr.
- Jackets (1 Piece) = 825cr. max
- Jackets (SJ Tee + SJ Vest) = 2225cr.
- Baggy Hoody Der. from IMVU Mesh = 575cr.
- Baggy Tee Der. from IMVU Mesh = 545cr.

If/When I find more types of Male Tops in my catalog that do not fit under neither catagory, I will update. Give me till the next weekend to update all products in said catagory (though it should take less than an hour or two)

Whats Goin' on IMVU? Vol. 5 [3-22-09]

Yo. Doin' this entry early in the day cause I am tired and got other sh*t to do, lol.

First Off: Hella Newnessity.

I actually have put out a ton of new stuff for both male and female avatars! Cold day in hell huh? I know right.

For the male avatars, I got: Nike SB Dunks Hi "De La Soul", De La Soul Is Dead Tee, San Francisco Giants x De La Soul New Era 59Fifty Hat, Nike SB Dunks Hi "Brian Anderson", and Cleveland Indians x Brian Anderson New Era 59Fifty Hat. All of the De La Soul sh*t came out of Peer Review late Saturday Night EXCEPT the Tee... Which got 2 votes and was sent to Customer Service, smh. But do not worry, I have re-sent it through Peer Review with a paragraph-long description, so expect it to come out this week. The Brian Anderson sh*t was sent into PR late Saturday, so expect it this week.

For the female avatars, I got: Nike Dunk Hi "Aqua/Leopard", Aqua Wife Beater w/ Leopard, Nike Dunk Hi "Tropical Breeze", and Tropical Breeze Striped Polo. The shoe concept The actual shoes came from avatar TWIGGY4mdaBAY. She had designed these dunks and suggested that I make them and I personally think they came out dope. The tops, on the other hand, were my concept using her colors. I tried bibirasta's newish polo mesh for the tropical top and the normal MFD Busty top for the Aqua/Leopard top. Look forward to more urban stuff for females when I do drop new sh*t.


Second Off: Just Do It: Peer Review

It would be an understatement for me to say "A select few people do not like IMVU's Peer Review". I have not come across one person who likes peer review (even though less than a handful of people said it was made with good intentions). If you remotely know me here on IMVU, you would know that I have disliked IMVU Staff's ways for years. I have been here since about mid 2006, meaning I am almost 3 years deep on here. I have been here before Rooms with movable furniture. Been here before music: rings or IMVU music. I have seen IMVU pull thousands of products from people and the catalog because they had words like "Nike", "Baby Phat", "Gucci", "Bape", etc. and provide no refund.

I have always seen IMVU staff as lazy and contradictory. No, I do not know any staff member individually. But I do not get how they can say using "Brand Names" and copying copy written material as "illegal" while their ads on other websites show avatars wearing MLB New York Yankee Clothing, Louis Vuitton Swim Suits, etc. I don't get how IMVU can let resellers like IMVUPay.com rip off hundreds (if not thousands) of hard-working developers and just tell the developers "Oh well, they might pay up some day."... And now, IMVU expects us to grade, rate, and correct other developers work? That's crazy!

I see Peer Review was ineffective. Why? They have uneducated developers grade other developers stuff. That's like telling 4th graders to grade another 4th grade classes' work. Sure, they might get some right, but guaranteed there will be mistakes made in grading. Then, you got other factors like favoritism in the mix. Lets say Student X knows Student Y. Student X may give student Y a passing grade and Student R, Student, S, and Student T also pass Student Y because they are all friends. A paper that deserved to fail passed. I think if IMVU must insist on checking our products, they need to do so. They could easily hire and train people that solely check products. I bet that would go faster than having people who don't know how to check products check products here on IMVU. Not to mention most people do not participate in Peer Review (I don't blame those people)

As much as I don't like Peer Review, I say just do it. It's a fact it is there. If you wanna wait days, weeks, or even months for your stuff to come out of PR for sale, just sit back and do nothing or run to a group forum to call it "gay", "bullsh*t", "a b*tch", etc. (people sure don't know how to articulate opinions these days, smfh). At the end of the day, whether you like it or not, it is vital to do it. I try and at least do 500 reviews a month, February I did 1,482. Quit being a b*tch and just do it chumps.

Wale "Chillin" ft. Lady Gaga + Tabi Bonney "Rich Kids" Music Video

I swore I saw Wale performing this track back in late January or early February(?) on MTV2 on what was dubbed "DC Week". I had searched for the track and never could find it (not that i searched hella) hard. Wale has been one of my favorite newer artists since WALE D.A.N.C.E. and I was supposed to see him in concert with Blu & Exile here in Sacramento but for whatever reason, it never went down... The whole situation was shady because Wale never posted that he was gonna be doing a show in Sac on his myspace tour dates. Anyways, I think this single was supposed to have dropped hella long ago; I even heard Joe Budden mention Wale's single being late in a video he posted on Youtube where he was in studio with 9th Wonder & Wale.

I think the single is just ok, I am still not used to Lady Gaga, but she is coo... can't knock her uniqueness. Click below to listen and/or download Wale's newest single Chillin ft. Lady Gaga.

Wale - Chillin ft. Lady Gaga (prod. Cool & Dre) (CDQ)


Another DC artist, Tabi Binney, dropped his latest video Rich Kids. Tabi Bonney is another artist I have been paying attention to for a minute now. He has his own style goin on and it is definitley an artist to watch. Check out his video below.

rich kids from tabi Bonney on Vimeo.

Supra x BBQ Sauce Skytop..? WTF?

Yo. Randomly running past a few blogs and saw some new Supra Chad Muska Skytops High on a collaboration project between Supra (well, no sh*t), Spin Magazine, and.... Stubb's Bar-B-Q..?

I can't knock the actual product created by the collab. because this is one of the tightest Skytop Highs I have seen so far. I have never had Stubb's Bar-B-Q, but it must be pretty damn good and hold some kind of weight in the street wear scene to score a collab. w/ both Spin magazine and Supra. From what I have read, it is a dope bar that serves BBQ and also has live music concerts in Austin, Texas.

The shoes will be dropping in hand crafted wodea box that also contains Stubb's BBQ Sauce and an Stubb's Bar-B-Q Apron (lol) . The blog I read (which is pretty legit) says they will drop 50 boxes this Friday March 20, but I see the boxes are marked out of 100.

I don't have any hope of copping a legit pair, but I had to site this sh*t!

Happy Saint Patricks Day!

Chea, I am a minutes till the "day" is over... that's because I found my liquid pot-o-gold, lmfao! Hope y'all had a good one and celebrated however you wanted to. Peace.

-Seis One

"Its Not Jackie Chan"

I watch [adult swim] a lot since I am always up late doing something (or nothing). My favorite show is Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but I also like Tim & Eric Awesome Show, 12oz Mouse, Tom Goes To Mayor, Shin-Chan, King of the Hill, Xavier: Renegade Angel, and Look Around You. Tim & Eric Awesome Show has some really weird (borderline homo) skits, but some I find really funny. One is on the episode about Jackie Chan being in entertainment for 100 years. This skit is about a board game called "Its Not Jackie Chan", a board game that is about everything but Jackie Chan... Seems easy right? Watch the video below.

Whats Goin' on IMVU? Vol. 4 [3-15-09]

Yo. Yeah, its been a minute. More and more I am finding less time to blog, but I try and sty up with the weekly updates on weekends.


First off: Bling Blaow!

After a long period of procrastinating, I made a badge. I had the option to make a 2x1 or 1x2 sized badge, but I thought: Why waste spend more credits on an extra 20px x 20px? Not to mention I am not trying to bully ya lil' space you got to show off sh*t. I think the badge came out so-so (mysterious white dots appeared after I submitted it) but I am more happy with the layout when you click on my badge. It's a clean small interface with links to my products, my page, and this blog. I plan to eventually try and add the java link that makes my avatar's info pop up, idk if that will work properly or not. That will go in the blank space at the bottom, I purposely made it blank to later and another link... Maybe even two. Check out the look of the layout when you click my actual badge below. I am very happy to say that I have not been swamped in requests for my badge (whew!). I have a panel on my page which is a self-service station to get my badge. No, it isn't instant but you should get it by the end of the day you requested it. So far I have only got one idot leaving a message asking for one (he thought if he gave me his badge, I would send him mine, smh). The ONE rule I have for my badge is do NOT waste your time or mine messaging me for it, that's what that whole damn panel is there for! Anyways, preview below, lol.

Second off: Newer Products (Peer Review)

It wouldn't be breaking news to say that PR keeps my products from seeing life for almost 5 days on average, but lately I have had crazy experiences. On the DGK Over Ho's Tee, I was prepared to recieve a failing grade on PR because of the fact it can be seen as a deragautory term or discrimanatory towards a group of people...Thankfully DGK happened to have the text say "DGK OVER HO'S" rather than "DGK OVER HOES". So when I sent it into PR, I put a note at the bottom explaining it means Belonging to Ho and that it was not ho in the plural (hoes). I am positive for that reason, it passed; not a single fail under a GA rating! Oddly enough, the matching Philidelphia Flyers (hockey team) Hat came back with an UNCLEAR verdict and was going to Customer Service (CS) for reveiw. I was not accepting that. I sent it back to PR with a 2nd Grade explanation of what a hat was and directed it at anyone doing PR. It was passed. Embarassment is a big motivator.

So all that is out of PR. Now I have got a lot of questions on what happened to the purple outfit... It went to CS, I'm sorry. I have never had any products, until the Philly Flyers Hat, go to CS. I am working on pictures and descriptions to get it out because I know people who have had stuff go to CS and not come out after a month or longer! I won't let that happen.

This weekend, I made a complete De La Soul themed outfit including: Nike SB Dunk De La Soul Highs (PROPS to JR2PhRESH aka LunchBoxNerd who dropped the 1st De La Soul Hi SB Dunks on IMVU back when sanejack first made the feind mesh. Find his here), De La Soul Is Dead Tee, and a San Francisco Giants x De La Soul Fitted Hat. All will be hitting PR early this week; I already have the icons for all of them done.

Expect female sh*t very soon. I am thinking maybe a top or two as well as full outfits and kicks.

Whats Goin' on IMVU? Vol. 3 [3-07-09]

Yo. Another weekend, another blog entry bout' IMVU and IMVU relates sh*t goin down on this end (my end).

First Off: Back On The Grind!

This is probably the most importiant thing currently: I got my laptop back up and running again! If you didn't know, earlier this year, my laptop AC adapter (the thing you plug into the wall to keep your laptop battery charged) randomly without warning died on me. It left a lot of current IMVU projects on hold and the progress made on them were lost. LUCKILY, I still have my old PC and was able to use it. The main purpose for my laptop is school, not IMVU. My PC is very old (2003 or 2004) and runs very very very slow. It sounds like a damn vacuum and freezes often, but has a good track record of not crashing luckily. So I did homework on there 1st off, then developed a tiny bit on there. The Photoshop CS2 on there notoriously freezes and crashes w/o warning and it pops up constantly after you minimize it. I didn't do much of any developing there... That should change now that I have my laptop up and running. I say should because now it's midterm/essay/paper season (at least at my college) and I am sure that will come before developing.

It's amazing how something so simple can throw your schedule/life off huh?


Second Off: WTF @ IMVU's Example!?

Today (Saturday March 7th, 2009) I was browsing IMVU's help section trying to find out what IMVU considers profanity because I sent this new DGK Tee through Peer Review and has the potential problem of either failing PR or later getting flagged because the words on the tee. While looking around, I found this guideline I first saw when IMVU first implemented Peer Review with this random ass funny example of what developers should not have in their product description. Lets just say it involves a blue chair and "crack-cocaine" lmao. To check it out, click on the picture above and view the highlighted area.


Third Off: NEW Products in Peer Review

I am notoriously lazy when it comes to making new products and instantly sending them through Peer Review. Why? Peer review sucks hard. My products take up to a week to get through. No matter if I make an icon and quick temperary picture w/ a decent text description, it still takes forever. Most my products are made for me. I don't mind sharing, it's just easier to keep em to myself...

But, this weekend I have sent the new DGK Over Ho's Tee as well as the matching Philadelphia Flyers Fitted Hat to Peer Review. These two products will replace the Dissizit! Facial Tee and the Arizona Diamondbacks Fitted hat because I found out someone else on IMVU submitted the tee in white, though mine was in grey. Also changed it up because I was not the biggest fan of the tee and hat, the tee was high quality, but the hat was so-so quality at best. The DGK tee and Flyers hat will go way harder, trust me. Just keep your fingers crossed that IMVU lets me keep it GA and it passes Peer Review.

Next Headed to PR this weekend is the Shadow Conspiracy Tee and the matching Cal State Fitted Hat are going in PR this weekend; I promise. I have recieved a lot of messages about this fit since I wore it in HipHop's latest pose pack. I just need to make pictures for it and I will send it through.

P.S. After this week, expect an ass load of new gear including: G-Shock Watches, More dope Tees w/ Matching 59/50 New Era Fitted Hats, Kicks, and more including female products... Stay Tuned!

Joe Budden on KarmaloopTV + Thoughts on "Swag"

Over the years I have listen to Joe Budden and realized more and more that I have a lot of similar traits that he does. The thought process, the actual thought itself at times mirrors mine. This was a chill laid back interview Budden did on Karmaloop TV about the usual subject: Hip-Hop, Music, and latest project(s). Check out the video below.



On another note, I searched imeem for some Joe Budden Padded Room tracks for my IMVU page late last week and stumbled across this just over a minute long audio of Joe Budden speaking on "Swag". Check it out here: Joe Budden Speaks on Swag or check it out below:

Here is yet another thing that it is just scary he has that opinion because I was just talking to someone in one of my classes about swag. Like Joe said, to me it is a homosexual type term especially when referring to another man. I personally do not talk about swag, really at all. I at one point I did post something in an old forum I was in where someone posed the question: "Do you have swag?" and I replied something along the lines of Just call me a swaggernaut. I personally do not feel the need to brag about how I act or the type of clothes I wear, etc. It kills me that people on IMVU, people who sit behind a keyboard dressing up avatars, claim that their avatars have swag. For the record, you will not catch seis1 talking about swag. Real talk, think about it... Let your personality and who you are do the talking. In IMVU's case, let your products/style do all the talking.

I truly believe Actions speak louder than words.

Whats Goin' on IMVU? Vol. 2 [3-02-09]

Yo. Was meaning to do this every weekend, but this weekend was a lil' busy. That may happen a few times where I can't/won't do it every weekend on the dot. I got shit to do (yeah, I do).

First off: Say Yes to Posing + NEW

I actually had modeled some of HipHop's latest pose pack last week but I had to respect his wishes and not leak or show anyone the poses until they was out public. They look hot (nothin new there). He got a lot of dope products poppin' for both male and female products, so check him out by clicking on his avatar name on the first sentence. Picture below (PS: my avatar is not that smooth).

Also, it features a new tee and fitted by yours truely hitting PR this weekend. Jeans are old jeans by yours truely (you can find them in the catalog here) and Supra kicks by Dontrez101.



Second off: Duplicate Products

If you are a developer (especially a developer who makes urban products), you know how annoying it gets to see a product you are making or a product you have already made and had out being made by some other developer. Believe it or not, I often get that happening to me alot.

I have faced facts that this element is going to be a factor as long as developers take others ideas; whether taken from real life designers or other IMVU developers. I do not get pissed or mad or upset 99.9% of the time. It makes sense because many urban developers get their "ideas" from the same source. No sh*t if everyone gets their stuff from tne same place, we are going to create duplicates. I am not simple minded enough to take it as a direct attack. What I do is move on and find something else (if someone made something I was making). There is enough credits floating around for everyone to make money w/o needing to copy another developers formula.

The one exception I have ever made to what I just said is a certian person who I once was friends with. This one person was cool enough to the point where I showed that person exclusive sh*t I had not even dropped. That person was really feeling one out of the pack of products. That person decided to make that product a month later and had the nerve to use my name in their product tags. Notice I don't name names, thats not what I do.

For the record: I only approve/understand people using my names if I modeled for them or in some way helped them directly develop that product. "Seis1" is not at all a common tag so if somene tells you it was an accident, they are lying. SoVeryNiah, my wife, has exclusive rights to use my name on anything and everything she pleases because we often talk and help eachother out with things pertaining to developing on IMVU. If you see anyone else using my name and I am not in the pictures modeling, they are perpitrating.

Third off: Badge Delay

Before I was planning on having a badge done and made by last week. Due to unseen circumstances, I sold the credits that were meant to go to making a badge. SO, I started back at 0cr in the middle of last week. But there is some good news: I am already in position to make a badge within the next few days (if I do not sell my credits). Expect to see a seis1 badge coming soon! Hopefully I will be able to find a decent self-serve badge script because I know people with badges to give get swamped in messages daily.

One thing I hope that my badge will accomplish is advertizing. I am afraid badges are more like Pokemon than they are bilboards. Meaning: people collect hundreds of badges just to say they have them. You cannot fit 800 badges on that little badge board. So hundreds of people who may have given you their badge out of the desire to be seen will not have that objective met. I may do something where I don't give out badges to everyone that has over X ammount of badges. May not care, I dunno just a thought.

My mindset is: I am using $46 (I can sell 100,000cr for $46) to create a tiny bilboard that may not even be public.