{"id":188,"date":"2012-03-31T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T13:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2012-04-12T20:01:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T20:01:55","slug":"closing-down-sales-exodi-kalnins-and-merikenco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/31\/closing-down-sales-exodi-kalnins-and-merikenco\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing-down sales: Exodi, Kalnins, and MerikenCo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always feel sad when I blog about closing down sales, because any creator going out of business is a Not Good Thing. But when <em>three<\/em> large businesses announce closure, practically within a week of each other? That&#8217;s not just bad news for customers of those stores; it&#8217;s bad news for SL itself.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies, today is your LAST CHANCE to buy from <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Belle%20Epoque\/191\/154\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Exodi<\/a>. The store closes tonight (Saturday March 31st). There&#8217;s still a group gift on top of the fireplace, to your left as you walk in, so activate your group tag and get that. It&#8217;ll be the last gift you get from Ryker Beck, as Exodi.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and while you&#8217;re at it, PLEASE don&#8217;t do what these thoughtless women did:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blogpics\/closing_exodi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those women couldn&#8217;t have given an uglier, ruder &#8216;goodbye&#8217; to Ryker Beck if they&#8217;d tried. Unpacking the FREE gift she gave and leaving all their crap to litter her store? Selfish. Just utterly selfish. And you know what? I haven&#8217;t named and shamed on this blog in a long time, but I&#8217;m going to do it right now; I am so disgusted at this selfish attitude. Ryker has been one of SL&#8217;s most generous creators, with regular group gifts of full skin fatpacks, setting out three gorgeous free newbie avatars for women, and I couldn&#8217;t believe what I saw when I walked into the store. In all honesty I thought Ryker had set out all of her previous group gifts, as one final huzzah to her group members, until I realised the boxes all had different &#8216;owner&#8217; names.<\/p>\n<p>So, congratulations to sinala.hoover, priscila.viper, rosa121, naillah, gogogirl.popstar, sharon.tate, kit.littlething, sem.muhindra, nese.thespian, barbiepinkstyle, jasmin.donaldo, nushua.allardyce, ellendixie, evva.camel, and ashira.torok for getting their names mentioned. Perhaps in future you might <em>think<\/em> a little about what kind of message you&#8217;re giving to the creators who, y&#8217;know, don&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> to give out free gifts, but do anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Hmf. Enough of that. Two other stores have announced closure. Hop behind the cut for more info (especially the menfolk reading, as these places are menswear heaven!)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/Japan\/71\/213\/23\" target=\"_blank\">MerikenCo<\/a> has not announced the closing date, but the sale is now on at the store. Both male and female clothing is available, and it&#8217;s gorgeous stuff. Guys, you definitely need to run over here and check out some of the menswear!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blogpics\/closing_merikenco01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blogpics\/closing_merikenco02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.secondlife.com\/secondlife\/San%20Jose%20City\/155\/57\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Kalnins<\/a> is closing. Originally the closing date was March 27th, but apparently due to overwhelming demand the new closing date is now the end of April and there are a further 80 items from the archives set out in the 50% off sale, so this is your chance to get those things you thought they&#8217;d stopped selling! Kalnins sell incredibly high-quality sunglasses, watches, and footwear, and everything is marked down in price now. This is another one that the guys need to check out, because there&#8217;s stuff for men as well as women in the stores (check both sides of the store: shoes are on the left, eyewear and watches are on the right).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blogpics\/closing_kalnins01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blogpics\/closing_kalnins02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blogpics\/closing_kalnins03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Edit: Sorry, peeps. Getting comment-spammed to hell on these latest three posts, so I&#8217;m disabling comments on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always feel sad when I blog about closing down sales, because any creator going out of business is a Not Good Thing. But when three large businesses announce closure, practically within a week of each other? That&#8217;s not just bad news for customers of those stores; it&#8217;s bad news for SL itself. Ladies, today is your LAST CHANCE to buy from Exodi. The store closes tonight (Saturday March 31st). There&#8217;s still a group gift on top of the fireplace,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/31\/closing-down-sales-exodi-kalnins-and-merikenco\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[40,20,16,38],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheapies","tag-closing-down-sales","tag-for-the-boys","tag-limited-time-offers","tag-skins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}