psnoobie opened this issue on Aug 16, 2007 · 35 posts
Letterworks posted Fri, 17 August 2007 at 11:31 PM
psnoobie,
Since Mrsparky seems to think that I in some way was trying to disuade your from submitting your product, (NOT my intention!) here are a couple of specific suggestions that MAY help...
As Karen1573 said first read the vendor submission guidelines thoroughly!! Probably more than once (I know I keep re-reading them everytime I try to submit something, if only to check for recent changes).
If you come across a question in the guidelines, ask about it, BUT try to be as specific as possible, otherwise many people will just assume you are venting off stream. See my note below the vendor's forum in reference to this as well.
If at all possible find one or more Beta Testers that are familiar with the MP here on Renderosity and have them check you product before submission, and most of them work for a free copy of the product! I can;t tell you the number of problems my testers catch for me, and yes even that can be fustrating at time, but it's well worth the effort to do this BEFORE submitting your product and having it fail. For one thing a good beta tester will test everything and give you a good detailed report of needed corrections for the ENTIRE package. Renerosity's store testers onely test UNTIL they encounter a problem then stop testing. So if you have multiple problems you'll have multiple rejections. Unicornst up there offered her services, take her up on it!! She can be of great help, and is a vetern merchant
Finally, if it;s any consulation, once you get a product accepted you'll have access to the vendor's forum here. That's where I tend to ask my questions on subjects like this.. Since it is a vendo specific forum the people there have been thru the mill as well and can almost always help. Not to forget and mention the ADMINS in that forum are great! Clint and Debbie bend over backwards to help sort out problems and Karen is allways a great help as well.
Couple of side notes:
@Mrsparky, not sure why I made you think I was trying to discourage psnoobie. It wasn;t my intention. I was trying to point out the even old hands here find the market place submission rules and regs. fustrating and confusing at time, and that he shouldn't give up. Hopefully this post will help redeem me.
@LostinSpaceman, carefuly reccomending showing a render of the product and polling the market place. Since that's agains the ruls on this forum (it's restricted to the lesser trafficed Product Showcase forum). No sense having psnoobie do that here, only to have his thread moved to that forum, and cause him even more fustration ;*)
mike