After reading this thread, somehow all my past bad memories from being a mainland resident no longer seem quite so bad.
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> wrote: > Sorry, but you are ignorant. > > A running sim is being paid for. That money is paid to Linden Lab. > It doesn't matter if that money was first paid by a grandmother to > her grandson, then double by gambling in the casino and subsequently > paid to some random stranger on Xstreet who give L$ for it, which > then were paid to some untrusty game-landlord who gave the game > money to yet another random stranger on Xstreet for which he recceived > real dollars which then finally are paid to Linden Lab. > > Namely, if the guy actually using the sim doesn't want to pay for > it, the sim can't run. The fact that it runs means someone pays > for it and you can bet on it that that comes from the wallet of the > person using it (living on it). > > So, in this case the sim was running a year aka $100 per month. > Now the sim isn't running anymore and this income of LL stopped. > > The renter then offers to continue renting it for $100 per month, > by paying *directly* to LL, but that is not accepted. > > It is this last thing that is ridiculous. Or at the VERY LEAST it > should be (or have been) possible to rent an isolated/private homestead > directly from Linden Lab. > > Don't say that 'L$' isn't real money so one has no rights. This is > not about what a RL lawyer would say, this is about common sense > and people being pissed off till they vomit and want to run away > screaming from SL, or at least from Linden Lab. > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:51:03AM -0400, Joel Foner wrote: > > Quick note... if the $100 a month, if this is rent, is not being paid to > Linden > > Lab if you're renting. It's paid to another avatar... different > picture... It > > seems to me the slap in the face is a landlord who does this to a large > number > > of tenants without notice, actually. > > > > Joel (also going back to lurking) > > > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Darmath <darm...@tpg.com.au> wrote: > > > > On 29/08/2010 1:23 AM, Gareth Nelson wrote: > > > and pointing out that LL have no contract with tenants of > > > rental regions - tenants of such regions are thus not customers. > > True. But a premium account holder is a customer of LL. "And to say > well > > we dont want you $100 a month because your not a full sim owner" is a > > slap in the face, period. FWIW i'm a premium account holder...whose > now > > returning to lurking. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > -- > Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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