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

Dahlia Trimble dahliatrimble at gmail.com
Sat Aug 28 12:56:56 PDT 2010


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 <carlo at 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 <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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