Can you guys please take the topic elsewhere its hard to catch whats relevant with everyone discussing this off topic thread. I'm sure there is a sl-dr...@lists.secondlife.com or similar available for ranting about customer service and business practices but if I'm not mistaken this list is for opensource development of the sl viewer. Thank you for not filling my opensource-dev folder with any more of this :)
- fellow former land owner that lost $250 all at once to 3rd party land purchase scam On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Dahlia Trimble <dahliatrim...@gmail.com> wrote: > After reading this thread, somehow all my past bad memories from being a > mainland resident no longer seem quite so bad. > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> wrote: >> >> Sorry, but you are ignorant. >> >> A running sim is being paid for. That money is paid to Linden Lab. >> It doesn't matter if that money was first paid by a grandmother to >> her grandson, then double by gambling in the casino and subsequently >> paid to some random stranger on Xstreet who give L$ 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
