Drain on SL economy thanx to Classifieds

MY Question has to do with Classified ads and thier Impact on the SL economy.

For the past 4 weeks I ran a small experiment with paid classified adverts on SL. It is a follows, 4 weeks ago I set up an ALT on a friends computer I gave that alt 50$L . this alt had no Business to run & no source of $L dollar income. I then placed a 50$L classified on SL with this alt. the classified was for a sandbox for the cost of 50$L. Before I paid for the classified I checked off the "AUTO RENEW EACH WEEK" button with the understanding that this alt would not LOG ON again for the next 4 weeks. so I clicked OK and paid 50$L to run a classified for a Public sandbox. Each new week I would SEARCH classifieds to check the status of the classified. Low and Behold each week with out fault the classified was still Running. 4 weeks passed and still the classified was active for a cost of 50$L dollars when the 4th week was up, I returned to my friends house LOGED IN to the ALT account to find that it's L$ dollars was in the Red! The ALT had -$L150 thats right it had Negative one hundred and fifty linden dollars! This was Caused Because Linden Lab Deducted 50$L each week from that account for the cost of "AUTO RENEWING" the classified. This is ALSO TRUE for 30$L a week LAND CLASSIFIEDS that are AUTO RENEWED. With the Results of this Experiment I was Shocked but not Suprized. What happend to the Alt you may ask? easy, I sent it 150$L to bring it's $L dollar ammount back to 0 (zero) then Cancled the account. so my Questions are as follows

Q.1 - does this work for people who take out 100000$L and up classifieds?
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Q.2 - how does this effect the Economic stats seen on the SL website for Classifieds?
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Q.3 - How does is effect the Exchange rate for $L dollars to US or Canadian Dollars?
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Q.4- are People who Run as I refer to it "Classified Alts\bots" liable for the Negative balance of thier accout?
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Q.5- how does Linden Lab plan to Prevent this from happening in the future?
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Q.6- Does Linden Lab really expect people to Believe that some one is paying 500000$L a week for a classified? that is over 500 US$

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this was also Posted on the Jira here http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-2641
but a Linden told me "it could not hurt to post in the forums as well"

Q7 what does this have to do with technical issues?
Q8 wouldn't Resident Answers, or Current Version Feedback been a better place to post?

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Pfft. She is being helpful.

She may think she's being helpful, but what does any of that have to do with a techincal issue?

Simply placed in the wronf forum.......I think that was what Osgeld was getting at. It is only helpful when people with an interest read it. I know I have no interest so she was not being helpful to me here in this forum.

If you have a problem, please file a support ticket. Posting a list of accusations and speculation isn't appropriate.

Forum Guidelines state: "Flaming, Spamming, Trolling – Flaming (posting a message that is intended to incite anger or directly attack a person or persons), *Spamming (multiple posts of the same topic or discussion),* and Trolling (a post with an intentionally contrary opinion written with the intent of inciting or getting argumentative opinions) are strongly discouraged. If you think your post might be over-reactive, or that it might fall into one of these definitions, please reconsider posting."

Thank you,
-- Katt Linden

think ive made my point

LOL.... Whilst I agreed that your first comment wasn't exactly inflamatory as suggested.. now this last comment is without doubt.
By virtue that Katt didn't lock the topic or delete it, perhaps should have told you something.

Would seem stange though, going back to the orginal post, that it appears that LL allow by default, avatars to have credit? If that is so, then without doubt it IS a technical issue. If for no other reason, a startup company could use a load of alts to put up 500kL$ classifieds with autorenew selected. Then simply cancel those accounts after a couple of months, even though they effectively 'owe' a couple of million L$ each, they would have done their 'job'.

Katt, I don't think this requires a 'support ticket' it is hardly a User problem/issue, but a LL one don't you think? All a jira is likely to do is expose this flaw in the system to a lot of people who will take advantage of this BUG.

As well, she is posting this to multiple forums. She already started a thread on this subject in Resident answers. This one should probably be locked.