You clearly missed the entire point of Aleric's post to this list. Either it was done deliberately or...
The pure simple fact is that Aleric feels aggrieved, and I feel some sympathy for him/her on this point, that due to an entirely elitist business policy he/she now has lost "his/her" land. I say elitist because the policy is in effect this: LL's is willing to accept the homestead price (~$100USD, i'm not sure) from someone who can afford ~$300 USD a month. Yet wont accept that same some from someone who can't afford that. It makes no sense whatsoever. Indeed i'd argue that it would almost contravene discrimination laws here in my country. What is the price of a homstead from someone who can't afford a full sim not as good as from someone who can afford a full sim? The last time i looked $100.00 USD was $100.00 USD irrespective of who paid it. I guess not in the eyes of LL's. Aleric's gripe is that if LL didnt have the policy in place she/he would have paid their money happily directly to LL with the consequence that he/she would still be on the land that they had "occupied" for over a yr, had much invested in and had some sentimental value to them. That you feel that this doesn't actually disrespect users or customers of LL's is a sad indictment on your logical abilities. On 29/08/2010 12:18 AM, Tigro Spottystripes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > The money you paid LL wasn't for the sim, it was for the L$ you gave to > the guy that actually paid real dollars for sim directly to LL. You gave > away your game money, it's not LL's fault that you choose to do busyness > with someone that couldn't be trusted. Did you had a contract where the > guy promised to keep offering stuff for you to sublocate from him? I > wouldn't expect you do, and i'm pretty sure you don't have a contract > where LL promises to fill in for your landlord if he goes away. > > There are situations where LL disrespects their customers, but your > landlord deciding to not rent a sim from LL anymore certainly isn't one > of them. > > On 28/8/2010 09:50, Aleric Inglewood wrote: >> I know this is "off topic", so I'll keep it as short as possible. >> >> After being a paying customer for more than a year, renting a homestead, >> and thus paying Linden Lab ~ USD$ 1000 or so ... they just take the sim >> offline, with no opening to even discuss the matter. >> >> Why? Because of something I did? No. The reason is that Linden >> Lab isn't interested in the "little people". Unless you have a FULL >> sim of USD$ 300 per month, you don't count. Obviously I can't >> afford that; so us little people have to resort renting homesteads >> from strangers who own a full sim. The owner of that full sim >> was paid by everyone who rented a homestead from him, >> every month, in time. But one day he decided he wanted to quit. >> Apparently he stopped paying Linden Lab, so they took all "his" >> sims offline. >> >> Now what is wrong in this picture? Should the 50 or so under- >> renters be punished because of one? I had absolutely nothing >> to do with this guy, except that he needed to own the homestead >> in name, because of the completely nonsensical "rule" that >> Linden Lab doesn't want to make homesteads available >> directly. Well, fuck you too Linden Lab. >> >> So one day I have a home, my own island where I live and >> did built and work on for more than a year. Which is full of >> objects of my dead partner that I can use but not Take Back >> (no help from LInden Lab here either of course), and the >> next -poof- offline. Not because *I* didn't pay, but because >> LInden Lab doesn't give a shit about me, or my money. >> Or it's customers. >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEAREKAAYFAkx5GsQACgkQ8ZFfSrFHsmWPYQCfXdPzlhNp3/9l+3adHu0+5t6g > nOQAn2vAhAc/qDxb1khzZet6fgQ/db1H > =DvER > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > > > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
