I often find myself wondering if merchants have a secret competition to see who can best hide their products from a search ;)

After all, I have no doubt that to a merchant, all of their products are familiar. But me? I have thousands of files in runtimes (I just checked - over half a million not counting Gen2). Even with 50 different libraries I still have to use search a lot.

So if I want a bikini, I'm likely to search for 'bikini'. I'm logical like that. Any merchant whose bikini I have bought will show up if they called it a bikini. Or bikini top, etc. But if they labelled it UltraTinybkni it probably won't.

And if there is an add-on tex pack called Miniscule For Ultra Tiny, that won't show either.

Apparently I'm expected to have either a) a photographic memory or b) about 500 libraries for every variable, or c) just buy a single bikini so it's easy to find.

No doubt Smith could make their library system better, though I'm still undecided on why hair goes in Character and hair mats go in Pose and why I can't make nested libraries but we'll let that pass for now. The simple fact remains that too many products are simply unfindable by using Search on a generic term for what they are.

And that problerm is even worse when it comes to locating which items have additional mat sets. I've pretty much given up on buying them at all since they rarely have names that gets them into the runtime right next to the base product where I can see them easily, and they also don't show in that search a lot of the time.

I can see an attraction in wanting to keep selling new products but if I have 20 or 30 bikinis, I really don't want to be spending a couple of hours trying to track them down so I can find the best one for a character/scene.

Some merchants are brilliant about it. Some are not. Some get priority when I'm buying new products, some don't. Having spent hours creating a wonderful item, another 5 minutes making sure it can be found easily would seem like a good investment, especially amongst the add-on merchants who could arrange their packs to be right next to the base item.

This isn't intended as a rant. It's intended as an observation from a shopper who spends far too much money because I love the products so much. It won't stop me buying new things if I can find old ones in the runtimes  a few weeks after I bought them. But it sure would improve my productivity.

Now I'm sure you can tell me something simple I missed that would magically reveal all the items I can't find searching for them by logical names?