Record Kitely Market Sales as Former InWorldz Residents Go Shopping

InWorldz, one of the oldest and largest OpenSim grids, has recently shut down. Since then, many InWorldz residents have moved to other grids in search of a new home. Thanks to Kitely Market, we now have some hard data that shows the scope of this exodus, as well as which grids were the preferred destinations for InWorldz residents.

We have seen a remarkable 300% spike in Kitely Market sales since InWorldz has shut down, as users that moved to new grids began restocking their avatar inventories. InWorldz didn’t allow its residents to use Kitely Market, so for many of these users this is the first time that they’ve been able to buy from our marketplace.

We saw Kitely Market sales begin to rise on July 26, a day before InWorldz shut down. The graph below compares sales from the week since InWorldz shut down, to the average weekly sales in the three weeks before that. Kitely’s own grid experienced the biggest growth in absolute numbers, but DigiWorldz and Discovery Grid experienced the most growth relative to their previous sales levels.

Kitely Market delivers to all Hypergrid-enabled OpenSim grids. This page explains how to buy items from Kitely Market and have them delivered to your avatar on another grid.

If you are the owner of a closed grid and you want to allow your users to buy from Kitely Market then follow these directions.

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Ilan Tochner

Ilan Tochner is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kitely.