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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.

This week ONLY!

I’m going crazy and offering you Digital Dish advertisement for 50% off! That’s INSANE! For only 2,500 credits, you get an entire month’s worth of fantastic advertisement!

This is a STEAL!

Hurry and reserve your place. Take advantage of this week-long offer [ending on August 29th] and purchase as much time as you want for 50% off of the regular price!
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What do you get for your 2,500 credits?

• One month of advertisement space.
• 180×180 space for your banner
• Banner appears at the following locations: Digital-Dish.com, Digital Dish IMVU home page, product pages Like This One.
• Banner cycles every 90 seconds or upon page refresh for ultimate exposure!

A reminder of what you need to do in order to take out ad space:

• Make a 180×180 image [must be GA compliant and suitable for those with photo sensitivity]
• E-mail your banner, avatar name and linked banner to IMVUDigitalDish@gmail.com to express interest
• Once your ad is confirmed, send 5,000 2,500 credits x However many months you’d like to run the ad to DigitalDish

Today until 11:59pm PST, you can create your very own widget badge for 25% off! That means for regular members, it only costs 75,000 credits and 67,500 credits if you have a VIP membership.

As taken from the Sales Page and then edited by me:

The price of badges is relatively high to help make badges special, collectible, and valuable. When you get a badge, you know it was created by someone who really loves IMVU, and who wanted you to have something special to show off in your profile [or because they caved into peer pressure and wanted a shiny like everyone else].

Here are the steps required to create your own custom badge.

1. Decide your badge size
2. Create your image (JPG, BMP, and PNG file formats are supported) [And here is where I interject and tell you to create the badge as a GIF and upload it as a GIF because that is the ONLY format it actually supports since the badges are converted to that format after upload. You'll get some pretty yucky graphics that way so just make it a GIF first!]
3. Import your image
4. Cry over the amount of money you just spent on a pixelated picture.

There are two three methods to give badges to your friends.

1. Manually give the badge to your friend
   a. Click on “Manage Badges” in your account settings page
   b. Click on “Grant/Revoke” Option
   c. Type in avatar name that you and hit the “Grant Button”
2. Automatically give badges to profile page visitors who requests them.
   a. Click on “Manage Badges” in your account accounts page
   b. Click on the “Edit Settings”
   c. Click on the “Badges Auto Grant” box
   d. If you want to restrict who can get your badges, use the Panel Visibility Settings
   on your account settings page to choose a sub-set of visitors, e.g. your buddy
3. Use an automatic badge script. Several people offer one. Just browse around the forums for it.

See the Digital Dish Girl in this image? She was made by Terror. She’s pretty nice and I’m happy with the piece. The cost was steep – 10,000 credits. But I’m a fairly generous developer and I didn’t mind the cost because I wanted the piece done practically immediately. I was anxious and it was a pretty big piece.

The image is also used on the Digital Dish homepage – and again, Terror is credited for the artwork.

And this is the avatar picture I used for a whole month after I got married. The avatar image within the picture was also done by Terror. He did a good job on the enhancements. The hair was… different but hey, it’s a heck of a lot better than I can do. Again, cost was steep – another 10,000 credits. But again, I’m generous and I was really excited about the piece.

The piece was used only as an avatar image [as shown] and as a temporary display filler for the icons I am selling. So Terror was never credited anywhere except for my file sale thread Virtual Virtuosities where Terror points out that the image I’m using was created by him.

And then I needed another piece of avatar art – this time to be used on my new product pages and home page. It was pretty important to me and I spent hours playing dress up and digging through my hundreds of poses to pick out just the right one. I made my decision and took the picture. But I needed an artist yet again.

Of course being that I like Terror’s enhancements, he would have been the natural choice based on work alone. But his work ethic is pretty flaky. If you scroll down to the bottom of this website, you will see that Terror is clearly noted for his artwork on this website. And I also did a nice Blog Post for him in recognition of his work. This wasn’t good enough for him. Okay, no problem! I offered him ad space for FREE and FOREVER and asked that he provide me with the banner needed and I would link it wherever he wanted. Didn’t get the banner. But yet he went on to do the wedding artwork for me.

So a friend talked with me about the artwork I needed and I mentioned that I wouldn’t pay 10,000 credits again. Let’s face it – I really don’t have a lot of money and I knew if I shopped around, I could have easily found someone to do it for less. But this friend gave me 5,000 credits so I would use Terror’s services again. So I took the money and gave it to Terror in exchange for more artwork on July 31st.

I told him I needed the piece “in about a week” because I wasn’t in a huge hurry. I was still working with the lovely Jspunkette on the coding so I didn’t need the piece immediately. Being that he already did two pieces of work, I assumed he understood what we were doing, but I explained it anyways. But then the work in progress (WIP) I got from him had the arms completely removed [he told me he "didn't like the arms so he removed them"] and the hair drawn from the edge of the canvas – rather than pasting the image into a new, larger canvas where he’s have plenty of room to draw it. I complained of course – it needed to be done correctly and I’d already paid.

On August 5th, he showed me the completed image. I agreed to it and asked it be sent. He offered to send both the PNG and the PSD file to me. On August 6th, I messaged him asking for the transparent image. I knew the piece was done, so I didn’t feel bad about reminding him for it. But then days passed. On August 10th, I reminded him that I had paid him and needed to be sent the artwork. Again, I knew the piece was done, so I didn’t understand why I was still waiting for it. No biggie – we all forget or have lives. He finally sent it to me.

Now, the agreement was that in exchange for the image, he would get 10,000 credits from me as well as recognition for doing the work on the pages the image appeared (as I specifically stated – my home page and product pages). I specifically wrote to him…

“There is going to be a sort of ad space for the digital-dish ads and I still need an image for you to put there. There will be another thank you section where you will be. Eh it’s hard to explain. lol You’ll see.”

Well I haven’t finished the thank you section yet. In fact, I was working on it before I got a nasty message from Terror, complaining yet again. And I already reminded him about the banner for the ad space [which he decided today he doesn't want because apparently he's too good for an ad reel where other people's banners will cycle through]. I promised him he’d get the shout out he deserves.

So here it is Terror. I have linked this blog to your name a total of eleven times in this post. It’s seen daily by hundreds of people. Is this good enough for you? Don’t worry – I’ll make sure you get what I promised you. I don’t go back on my word. I’m sorry if I didn’t work fast enough for your liking but funny thing – it took many days for me to get my artwork from you and I didn’t complain. I wasn’t threatening to you nor rude.

Enjoy your moment in the spotlight. And for those who think this post is rude – well, I’m just telling it like it is. This blog is about IMVU news and gossip – and my point of view.

Money is coming harder and harder to come by these days. Do yourself a favor – only use a trusted and respected Credit Reseller from which to purchase your IMVU credits. There are unfortunately more fraudulent sites than there are real ones!

Please know who you giving your money to. If the price seems too good to be true, then it probably is. Credits from a reseller are typically half the cost of credits directly from IMVU. Best part is that when you purchase from a reseller, you are helping to support hundreds of developers! Personally, I am partnered with DeveloperCredits.com.

Registered Resellers (in Alphabetical Order)
angenz-designs
ashantaey
assemblage24
Cassiopeian Credits
d3viant d3signs
DeveloperCredits – My Personal Choice
Furry Credits
imvulove
imvusale
imvux
Lisnevash
mechadollie
Regnarts
Varisign
Vertexual Foundry

Fraudulent Sites (original list compiled by ex-staff member, Devinoch)
access-pass.com/index.html
buyimvucredits.com/index.php
buyimvu.com
eing.com/us/imvu
ffxi-gil.net
freewebs.com/imvucreditscheat
freewebs.com/imvucreditsforfree/imvucredits.htm
freewebs.com/imvucredit/credits.htm
friskgame.com
geocities.com/xjaybro
getimvucreditsfree.piczo.com/?cr=4&rfm=y
gogoseller.com
gpkoo.com
hahaimvu.piczo.com/?cr=1&rfm=y
igcoo.com
igxe.com
imvub.com
imvucheaters.com
imvucheaters.net
imvucheats.bravehost.com
imvucredits.cn
imvucredits.us
imvucheatclub.com
imvuex.com
imvuexchanger.com
imvufreecredit.c.la
imvuhacks.googlepages.com/home
imvumv.com
imvuol.com
imvu-corp.com
imvu-credit.com
imvu-credits.net
imvu-credits.org
imvu-kings.tk
imvu-reseller.com
imvu.cc
imvu.de
imvu.es
imvu.fr
imvu.gigazu.com
imvux.ca.gs
imvu.com.ag/shop/web_browse_php
imvu.f4m.net
imvu.us
iv-go.cn
lccgame.com
mat2gip.be/MaT/imvu/incerror.php
Superwowgold.com
theeasycredits.webs.com
thimvu.com/
wow-gold-buy.com
ximvu.ca.kz/ also cheeeeeeekiii.piczo.com
XIMVU.CA.GS
youtube.com/user/IMVUHelper