Second Life Outages Hurting Inworld Business

When objects that have been paid for fail to materialize that's bad. When a customer then complains, but the business is unable to refund them due to profiles also being down, that's worse. One thing leads to another, with the end result being a lot of very unhappy people blaming the business owner and trashing her reputation. That is at least the case with Myth Dibou who posted a typical exchange with an dissatisfied customer on the Second Citizen forums recenty.

Im not certain whether it would be possible, but it seems one possible solution to such issues, which are very common in a virtual world where updates happen frequently, and much of the testing of said updates is doen live, would be the ability to throw a switch and simply turn off sales of items in your store. Sure you'd lose sales, but I'd imagine it would be a lot less hassle than repeated conversations like the one linked above.