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xxWildOrchidxx  
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| MystyRainbow wrote: | | As an Aussie and fairly long term customer of IMVU I can't tell you how thrilled I am that there are gifts to be given to American female users only. Makes me, as an international paying customer, feel sooooo appreciated. |
I totally agree!!!!
SO im guessing IMFU is moving away from "dress up for adults" No wonder we are losing our AP stuff. What next? Pin the tail on the donkey parties?
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Notorious
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| Varsha wrote: | The client homepage design about the Skintimate promotion will be removed after midnight today.
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Still there....going strong....
advertising....wheeeee!
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Goldilocks
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:32 am Post subject: Re: “Ready for Everything Photo Contest” – Brought to you by |
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| Varsha wrote: | We are happy to announce a chance for IMVU community members to participate in Skintimate Studios™ Ready for Everything Photo Contest. We have partnered with Skintimate® to bring this exciting and fun contest to those IMVU users who qualify.
How can you participate?
Please visit http://skintimatestudios.com/ for contest details. The contest is open to all females, 13 or older and residing in the US.
You have to shoot and submit your photos (real life ones) for the contest in order to have a chance to win many grand prizes! The contest page will give you plenty of information and guidelines for your entries and of course details about all the prizes that await the winners.
Plus if you enter the contest through our promotional page, you can earn 1,000 IMVU credits.
IMVU promotions
We will be bringing you information about the Skintimate Studios™ contest in a variety of ways over the next few weeks.
1) Messaging:
You will be receiving home page messages and be able to view advertisements giving you additional details about the contest as well as information about many free gifts available to you.
Starting March 22nd, from time to time, you will also see your 3D Chat homepage and your website account page adorned with promotional material for this campaign.
Our VIP users will not see most of the ads but will see the 3D Chat homepage design.
2) Camera Tool in IMVU’s 3D Chat:
You will be able to access the contest page directly from within the IMVU 3D chat using the appropriate links provided around the photo lens when you launch the camera tools. You will see the Skintimate Studios™ contest information on your screen when you launch the camera tools on seven different days when the promotion will be active.
Please note that this promotion will be visible only to US based females who do not have VIP or AP.
The tentative dates for the cameral tool promotions are March 23rd, March 30th, April 6th, April 13th, April 20th and May 3rd. Any photos you take and save to your IMVU albums during the promotion period will not include any of the promotion designs. Those will be seen in the 3D Chat view only.
3) Daily Outfit Challenges:
We will be celebrating the Ready for Everything Photo Contest with special themes on seven separate days for our Daily Outfit Challenges. For those days, the winners will receive an additional gift provided by Skintimate®. So get ready with your creative entries – the first such challenge is on March 30th!
4) Free gifts – The best part, female IMVU users will have an opportunity to receive several free gifts on designated days. We have some awesome rooms and gifts in store for you – all you have to do is log into your IMVU account on those days. The first such gift will be available on March 23rd and it is a gorgeous beach house perfect for your IMVU spring break!
The gifts will be available to all US based female users – irrespective of their AP and VIP status.
We hope you are as excited as we are to have a chance to participate in this fun contest and be able to do so right from within your IMVU experience.
Thank you! |
Really, IMVU??? Really? I'm completely embarrassed that this is even on this site. Can you spell SELLOUT? This is an insult and an affront on so many levels... insult to all users, as far as mass advertising spam, insult to all non-female and all non-U.S. users, insult to parents to entice 13 year olds to submit real life pictures... OMG, IMVU! What were you thinking?! Are credit sales down so much that you have to stoop to such levels? Maybe if you fixed the catalog, people will want to shop more, and you'll sell more credits so people can go shopping. Wow, IMVU! Just WOW!  
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LizzieBorden
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| Notorious wrote: | | Varsha wrote: | The client homepage design about the Skintimate promotion will be removed after midnight today.
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Still there....going strong....
advertising....wheeeee! |
You mean they lied AGAIN Chicka...  =^.^=
| Goldilocks wrote: | | Varsha wrote: | We are happy to announce a chance for IMVU community members to participate in Skintimate Studios™ Ready for Everything Photo Contest. We have partnered with Skintimate® to bring this exciting and fun contest to those IMVU users who qualify.
How can you participate?
Please visit http://skintimatestudios.com/ for contest details. The contest is open to all females, 13 or older and residing in the US.
You have to shoot and submit your photos (real life ones) for the contest in order to have a chance to win many grand prizes! The contest page will give you plenty of information and guidelines for your entries and of course details about all the prizes that await the winners.
Plus if you enter the contest through our promotional page, you can earn 1,000 IMVU credits.
IMVU promotions
We will be bringing you information about the Skintimate Studios™ contest in a variety of ways over the next few weeks.
1) Messaging:
You will be receiving home page messages and be able to view advertisements giving you additional details about the contest as well as information about many free gifts available to you.
Starting March 22nd, from time to time, you will also see your 3D Chat homepage and your website account page adorned with promotional material for this campaign.
Our VIP users will not see most of the ads but will see the 3D Chat homepage design.
2) Camera Tool in IMVU’s 3D Chat:
You will be able to access the contest page directly from within the IMVU 3D chat using the appropriate links provided around the photo lens when you launch the camera tools. You will see the Skintimate Studios™ contest information on your screen when you launch the camera tools on seven different days when the promotion will be active.
Please note that this promotion will be visible only to US based females who do not have VIP or AP.
The tentative dates for the cameral tool promotions are March 23rd, March 30th, April 6th, April 13th, April 20th and May 3rd. Any photos you take and save to your IMVU albums during the promotion period will not include any of the promotion designs. Those will be seen in the 3D Chat view only.
3) Daily Outfit Challenges:
We will be celebrating the Ready for Everything Photo Contest with special themes on seven separate days for our Daily Outfit Challenges. For those days, the winners will receive an additional gift provided by Skintimate®. So get ready with your creative entries – the first such challenge is on March 30th!
4) Free gifts – The best part, female IMVU users will have an opportunity to receive several free gifts on designated days. We have some awesome rooms and gifts in store for you – all you have to do is log into your IMVU account on those days. The first such gift will be available on March 23rd and it is a gorgeous beach house perfect for your IMVU spring break!
The gifts will be available to all US based female users – irrespective of their AP and VIP status.
We hope you are as excited as we are to have a chance to participate in this fun contest and be able to do so right from within your IMVU experience.
Thank you! |
Really, IMVU??? Really? I'm completely embarrassed that this is even on this site. Can you spell SELLOUT? This is an insult and an affront on so many levels... insult to all users, as far as mass advertising spam, insult to all non-female and all non-U.S. users, insult to parents to entice 13 year olds to submit real life pictures... OMG, IMVU! What were you thinking?! Are credit sales down so much that you have to stoop to such levels? Maybe if you fixed the catalog, people will want to shop more, and you'll sell more credits so people can go shopping. Wow, IMVU! Just WOW! |
*BOLDED by me...  =^.^=
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xxWildOrchidxx
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:21 am Post subject: |
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They can boil it down any way they chose. Put as many bells and whistles on it as they like. I personally (as a mother) cannot get my head around the fact they are encouraging 13 year old girls to submit real life photos!!.
In this day and age where cyber bullying, is so large, we all know what will happen when 13 year olds glimpse each other and start picking faults with each other. Not to mention the sick perverts hiding behind their computers and loving the new material they have to ogle at. Because we all know everyone tells the truth on the age question when they sign up for IMVU, so anyone can pose as a 13 year old girl.
I understand the competition rules are different for each country, but seriously?? Blatant disregard for users outside the US is terrible. You could of offered credit prizes to others. Its not hard IMVU, a little common sense wouldn't hurt...
Oh and as a VIP, i DO NOT want to see advertisement
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SiNafay
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| LizzieBorden wrote: | Varsha, could you clarify for us please, do we need to sign in to the website or the client hun?  =^.^= |
Either will work.
Do you have IMVU Inc. on your block list? That would prevent you from getting it.
As for the advertisement stuff, there is a few keywords in Varsha's statement that means everyone can get the ads. "We have partnered up with". Partners are not considered 3rd party advertisers (or so we have been told for a year or two now).
Name owner (before the change) or VIP..doesn't matter. They can show it to you if they are a partner. We don't get subjected to things like GoogleAds though.
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Jeszay
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JinzoCrash
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The programming of this promotion is as bad as all the OTHER bad programming that's killing imvu...
--My alt female account, not vip, not name owning, got it.
--A second similar account, got it.
So i rushed on Friday and switched from "male" to "female" in my profile:
--An account with VIP and AP
--One account with no VIP or AP
--2nd account with no VIP or AP
But later on Friday, I got it in the account that DOES have VIP and AP.
...Which, male or female... isn't supposed to happen?
Lol?
Another odd but trivial thing... the items i got in my female accounts were a thumbnail of the beach.
In my VIP, AP, previously male account, I got items with the thumbnail saying "Welcome to IMVU!" running across the top of it.
Wonder if both differently-thumbnailed items are identical or not. They LOOKED the same at a quick glance.
Anyway, imvu lied to me by dropping these damn ads. I PAID for no third party ads. How is "partnering up" different than any of the other ads?!?
I REALLY would like to see the legal documentation where "no third party ads" is added onto with "unless they're ads we say we "partnered-up" with lol... SUCKER".
Well... with many of our creator's items VANISHING from the catalog in a big, glitchy event... or the dev's income not reporting right or being given period... or making people create in the client for "safety"... or the client creator "safety" failing and making it a pointless bother... or the radio people pay money for not working... or the lag, the dreadful lag... or the BREAKING of THOUSANDS of items by imvu... or the easier flagging in pointless areas, along with harder flagging in important areas... or imvu letting GA hear AP music... or the camera being broken... or going hardcore with the enforcement of AP products... or not letting AP users talk about themselves on their avi cards... or not making good on their promise to let non-VIP block their avi from being molested by perverts... or not doing anything about death threats to people in PMs... or not being able to see where people really are in rooms... or not telling people WHY they have been banned or suspended... or customer service being awful... or not being able to stay in chats without crashing... or crashing in a room and having no indication of it until it's too late... or the whole client crashing... or spending hours decorating only to find NONE of it was saved... or outfits not showing as saved or not saving at all... or the removal of spacing lines in Pulse... or mute never being fixed and returned... or not always telling us when they covertly remove items, banned or innocent, from the inventories that we paid them for... or buddies just vanishing off your buddylist when EVERYONE swears they'd never do that... or not having an Android app or letting you use prepaid cards with Android... or... or... you know what? I'm really tired.
I just guess they've lost so many customers that it's come down to needing an advertiser to pay them for pics of 13 year olds.
Mind-boggling.
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LizzieBorden
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^THIS^ pretty much covers it! =^.^=
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IsukiyomiSue
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Really, really, really DUMB idea.
I've seen some stoopid stuff come down the pike in my nearly 5 years on this site, but IMVU - this one takes the cake!
Enticing 13-year old females to participate in an online contest by submitting their RL photographs which will be viewed by many adults of questionable character is more than just stupid, it's dangerous.
I am a "safety" moderator for the Daily Outfit Challenge where we reject pictures daily because they show a few red pixels in the wrong places. We also reject pictures that depict activities that 13 year old kids should not be viewing.
And, yet, as a blatantly obvious sell-out advertising ploy, IMVU does this sort of exploitation contest utilizing REAL LIFE PHOTOGRAPHS OF TEENAGE GIRLS? Even the product name is suggestive, so we can just imagine the types of photos these kids will be submitting - many probably done without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
Shame on you, IMVU.
PS: How much you wanna bet whoever made this moronic self-serving deal got a flippin' bonus check? 
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| IsukiyomiSue wrote: | Even the product name is suggestive, so we can just imagine the types of photos these kids will be submitting - many probably done without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
Shame on you, IMVU.
PS: How much you wanna bet whoever made this moronic self-serving deal got a flippin' bonus check? |
I totally didn't even think of that lol.
"How's this 13 year old look to you?"
"Why... she's absolutely skintimate."
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xxWildOrchidxx
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Who lets their 13 year old come on to IMVU anyway?? Its not exactly a safe haven for children.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| xxWildOrchidxx wrote: | | Who lets their 13 year old come on to IMVU anyway?? Its not exactly a safe haven for children. |
you be surprised how young people are 
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xxWildOrchidxx
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| marylouse wrote: | | xxWildOrchidxx wrote: | | Who lets their 13 year old come on to IMVU anyway?? Its not exactly a safe haven for children. |
you be surprised how young people are |
Sadly nothing surprises me with imvu any more.
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Even tho I'm a very liberal, forward-thinking person, if I had a teenage daughter, there's no way in hell I'd allow her to post up a real life picture of herself in this contest nor anywhere else on IMVU (I don't even want my real life pictures online anywhere so why would I put a teenage girl out there for all of the perverted people to ogle).
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