Ice-T was on Conan O’Brien last night and discussed his venture on IMVU with him. Just check out the embedded video below where Conan calls IMVU a “Great Scam”.

CEO Cary Jay just left a message on everyone’s home page with a link to the IMVU Blog. The post basically suggests that IMVU is now profitable while they used to lose money every month.

Are you serious? I don’t think they should publish information like that because it’s only too easy for me to rip apart.

So IMVU has been losing money until recently? Funny how they basically knocked out resellers, tortured their developing community and then did sale after sale on their ridiculously overpriced stuff and now they are making a profit. Sorry IMVU… While I’m happy to see you are finally making money you really need to think “At who’s expense am I profiting?” Let’s face it… once you’ve pissed everyone off with your high prices, poor ethics, inconsistencies and your inability to really connect and understand your community… you’re going to implode.

Sure, you’re making money now but that won’t last long. That blog post alone has my knickers in a twist. Start understanding that your community controls you. Those fancy sales and promotions look great on the surface, but they won’t for long. You’ve repeatedly beat down some of your most incredible and powerful community members expecting them not to strike back… Shame.

Can you stand it? Digital Dish is now offering you yet another way to advertise your catalog or IMVU related website thus potentially sending you well targeted traffic. Best part? You can use your 20×20 sized widget badge that you already work so hard to market. Let us help market you too!

You have two purchase options. For an introductory rate of 10,000 credits (that’s 50% off!) you can purchase a gold, lifetime 20×20 slot. Or, you can rent a silver 20×20 slot for 1,000 credits per month. It doesn’t get any better than that!

The ad space can be found towards the bottom of the website and is apart of the footer, so it’s included on every page! Be truly apart of the website and leave your mark. Be one of the first to reserve your place to take advantage of the low, introductory price. It won’t last long!

If interested in this type of advertising, please please send an e-mail to me at IMVUDigitalDish@gmail.com with the following information:

Name:
Email:
Link:
Text Upon Scroll Over:
Badge (Either URL or attachment):
Length of Ad (Lifetime, Monthly?):
Total Cost:

The regular 180×180 side bar banner ads are still available. Check out the advertisement page for more information.

It’s been a while since I’ve discussed client updates with you. It’s mostly been a bunch of bug fixes and programmer jabber not really worth discussing. But version 422.0 came out yesterday (as did 422.2 which was disabled and now 422.4 to fix some more bugs) and it looks promising.

So what’s new!? Some nifty stuff to make life easier for you while using the 2.0 client. Let’s go through point by point shall we?

New Wishlist Feature

Now you can wishlist products as well as view your wishlist within the client. Unfortunately, it’s a little confusing. In order to view you wishlist, you must be in “shop mode” by having the shopping tab open as shown in the image below.

To add something to your wishlist, you merely click on the silver star under any product you’d like to add as circled in red in the below picture.

Due to performance issues, IMVU has capped the wishlist within the client to 500 items. However, you can add more than 500 and view your entire list via the website.

To make it easier, IMVU has also added a Sign Out link at the upper right-hand corner to the client (was that not there before? I never really noticed). See picture below.

Save Outfit Button

Finally. I’m happy to announce that a Save Outfit button has been added! No more typing *saveOutfit and struggling to type and time your avatar. Now there is a button within the “Dress Up”  and “My Room” tab. DOCers rejoice! Check out the image below.

And finally… collapse the top bar!

You can now do this by pressing F11 thus giving you more space to ake your awesome pictures! To make it come back, press F11 again.

And that’s pretty much it folks. Yay?

Today, an email went out to those registered at IMVUSale.com to the tune of this…

Our apologies, as much as we are working on sales we still have over 70 million credits stacked up, even higher than last month.

Imvu’s printing too much money again, giving away free credits for quizzes, contests and running sales with lower prices than us resellers do. Yet they still fail to shut down at least 12 fraud websites that are currently SELLING stolen credits at 30-38 per 100k. We really can’t do much about it until they stop this none-sense. Buying price is lowered to $39 per 100k, hope you understand the difficulty we are facing, hopefully the holiday season will bring some light.

Resellers are teaming up on protesting imvu’s recent financial decisions already, it should take some effect.

Sadly, I fear that a lot of resellers will soon face the same problems. Actually, my own credit partner DevCredits.com has already felt some pinching in the last six months or so as we frantically try to sell credits to whomever we possible can so that Tidy can continue to purchase credits from us at the rate of $46/100k. It’s been hard.

IMVU has been really pushing sales on their credits thus undercutting the resellers with ease. After all, IMVU can produce all the credits they want and sell them at whatever price they choose. And the more they do this, the less developers are paid. Need I direct you back to my post about the decline of IMVU and potential earnings?

I don’t need to say much more than what the email from IMVUSale has covered. Sad, sad day for developers.