It’s shocking that some of you make fun of a shop owner’s post just because they don’t want their items stolen.
Interestingly, this mockery often comes from OS residents who themselves don’t seem to contribute much to the community?
In doing so, you’re knowingly ignoring the rules and leaving behind frustration and hurt.
The shop owners deserve respect, not ridicule.
Why can’t some people see that they’re sawing off the branch they’re sitting on?

Thieves moralize that they're the more moral thieves? Are you still okay? NO ONE here has any claim to stuff stolen from SL. Still, we're glad all the nice things are here. DO it... or don't. But don't act like you have a legal claim, that's completely ridiculous.

There are so many people who want to be the next R. Lion or Starchild or Darkheart or Sciattisi. You know, having a super popular freebie sim with all the newest and best and hottest premium stuff and tons of it. But without having to go through the hassle of leaving tons of money on the Marketplace (or figuring out where they can bot the stuff without buying it), exporting it, re-importing it, putting it back together and replacing or even remaking missing scripts. And especially without going through the even bigger hassle of learning how to create stuff themselves from scratch.

Oh, and of course, they all switch their prey to no-transfer so that nobody can steal their stuff that has been stolen at least twice already. Bonus points for dumping it on an empty sim, saving the sim as an OAR and reinstalling the OAR, just so everything bears their name as the creator.

It's almost like I'm the only shop owner who isn't robbed because my stores simply aren't worth robbing. Unless, of course, some ambitious newbie shows up with no idea just how old most of the items in my stores are. I mean, who really checks and curates the stuff they pick up in stores to put in their own stores?

As for replacing logos, I've just seen boxes that clearly came from another store with a very unique box art style, but with their store logo covered by a new prim with another logo on it. Yeah, totally legit and absolutely not suspicious.

I closed my store for these reasons, not only because I was robbed but also because I was deceived by supposed friends. Opensim is full of criminals who live off the theft from others.

I might suggest do not support regions parcels and stores that do take from others.. look for the makers of clothes.. and go to them directly.. they work hard for the traffic.. where some just go shopping and put your stuff in boxes and dont care than it has been updated.

They do that because they find support in people leaving positive reviews to their stolen content.

It really sucks that there are ppl who steal other peoples creations and i dont blame you for banning/blocking them . Sadly I have found that I had items in my inventory that said I was creator and I know I was not and I did not change it (I wouldnt even know how)

Unfortunately, my friend Noojan also gets robbed from time to time. He has several small shops on our RP sim, some of which are unique, which can be reached via "Big City". Whether it's the Alba sex club or Serrallo de Mogor, who even stole a belly dancer and had the nerve to claim to be the owner. I can more than understand what you're saying... it's not okay, and if something isn't for sale because it's personal, you can always ask, and I've always received positive feedback. From you, the Tai Thi balls (which our RP group has had a lot of fun with), it's okay... even if someone wants to bring them into their own shop. why not a reference to the original shop a link, so we all support each other.. but as we see again and again there are those who are just cheap thieves

I agree, the people who bring in UNIQUE content into opensim do so with love.. No one wants to go to a store which has the same stuff as the store they just came from cause you all stole the same things..
If you dont know how to texture, rig mesh, make mesh, or import .. then you DO NOT NEED to have a store.. but what burns me the most is when people change the creators name on the items to make themselves look better..

That happen to us too, thats why we closed our mall, we had enough of this stupid shit, very poor such happenings :(((((( Greetings from C&C

People that do the hard work should get the credits.