[opensource-dev] This is how Linden Lab treats it's customers...

Carlo Wood carlo at alinoe.com
Sat Aug 28 11:21:24 PDT 2010


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 <darmath at 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.
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