or 'Forewarned is forearmed'
Please take note...
I have just read my friends blog on her profile (http://www.slprofiles.com/index.asp) as she writes blogs that are generally funny and amusing... and sometimes with a twist as well..
Below is a link for her latest blog.
Please do read it.
Also it would be nice to know if Linden Labs can do anything about this too. I am going to get my friends to contact LL with regards to this too... if they haven't already done so that is.
http://www.slprofiles.com/secondlifeblog.asp?a=comments&id=23475
Entitled.... 'Landlord of the Flies'
It doesn't make for good reading if you are looking to buy land....!! That's the reason I posted it here... as this person may try to advertise land here... or try this on with someone else. So please do go and read her blog about this and you will see what happened.
Here is a quote from it....
......Some of my friends rented land on a sim. They are very good friends. I've known them for quite a long time.....
....My superheroine friend and three of her chums - let's call them the Righteous Union - were living on a nice island sim rental. They'd set up houses and furnished them, and my super friend was even building a space station hideout high above. It all looked rather lovely, and so when the chance came to own the entire sim, the Righteous Union were delighted. Their tier fees were paid up to 23 November, so it was agreed that on that date, they would buy the land outright, funded by an anonymous backer who we'll call Deep Throat, because it really annoyed Bunny when I called her that before. Deep Throat paid a large deposit, doubtless earned in some shady way, but that's not the disturbing event to which I referred earlier.
No, the disturbing event is that their landlord, who we'll call the Mean Goblin, although his real name is Namiride Voight, then sold the land from under them to someone else! All of their property has been returned to them, but of course there's no sign of the deposit that Deep Throat paid or of the three week tier fee that the Righteous Union paid in advance.....
Be aware of this person in the blog.. Namiride Voight
That is the name to look out for if you are thinking of obtaining land from them... THEN DO BEWARE!!
A very underhand thing to do to say the least.
We're not talking about a few Lindens here either.. It runs into thousands from what I've been told.
So... if you know this person, or know of him. Please ask him to refund the Lindens to my friends, assuming that this person has made a genuine error in the land sale... somehow I think not.
This kind of thing needs to be stopped.
Please let others know of this person... It makes me wonder also.. how many times has this happened in SL... people getting 'ripped off' like this.. Do LL know? Will LL do anything about it? Have they done so in the past?
Answers on a postcard please...!
Maybe there should be a Name and Shame part to this Forum for things of this nature.