GOM defrauded again?!

I lied. One more post.

Sensual, be honest now. Have you *ever* done business with GOM?

Zep

Interesting. Mileage definitely does vary! Cuz the one and only time I have ever taken money from SL to RL, I opted to use IGE, and the entire thing from quote to done deal took about 3 minutes if that. In fact, the IGE guy was inworld and waiting for me before I even managed to log in to complete, and he had my money in my Paypal account under a minute later before he logged out of SL. I found them very efficient and very helpful.

Well, it varies a bit, but yes IGE can move pretty quickly at times.

Zeppi and crew are stand up guys. They'll fix it. Nuff said.

Mmmm, alright. Let me first say that I have absolute trust and confindence in the way Zeppi runs GOM. He is running very nice and useful service with great customer oriented attitute. I am saying this as one of his most frequent customers. I am very happy about the way he is doing business. It is exactly the kind of professionalism and integrity that the Second Life economy needs to flourish



I think that is what should be expected from hororable business. I will base my judgement on IGE's business integrity on wether or not they make effort to reverse those transactions.

Zeppi this is not our business - whether another player is a GOM customer or an IGE customer.


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Merwan, I think he was just making a light joke about a rather consistent bias.

Sir, its also none of your bussiness to answer for the lady. If she does not want to answer she is not required to. Thats really nice of you to speak for other people, although its not needed.

ROFLOL!!


Right.

I agree. I wish more Second Life businesses were run as well.

Any chance you could cut back on the linefeeds, Merwan?

It is very true sir, Consider the following. Everyone in secondlife is required to be atleast eighteen years of age. In the united states you are considered an adult at the age of eighteen. The united states is also where Linden Lab is based out of therefore United States laws govern Linden Lab. My hypothesis is that Sensual is atleast eighteen years of age and is considered an adult in the United States of America therefore earning her the right to speak for herself.

Please correct me if this is a wrong statement.

I have a lot of lindens that I bought with real cash via paypal that I cannot withdraw from GOM now. Locking honest payouts because of other fraud issues is not legal. It's fraud too, so GOM had better release the funds, NOW!

I thought the same thing Merwan did - it is not appropriate for any business to breach privacy and make that kind of a statement, implied or not. Whether she does or not do business with GOM, which she has, her statements about bashing IGE are valid - I have been surprised by Zeppi's behavior myself in this thread.

IANAL, but GOM has a good record of bouncing back quickly from fraud. GOM is at the bleeding edge of law and technology. They deserve more consideration than the average business.

I wonder whom I should contact to seek compensation for the amount of time I could not access MY money.

I'm certain that when they sort out this fiasco, funds will be available again. I only wanted to point out that not every can still withdraw funds. Just give it some time.

Well, Rockerfeller, I'd guess it would be Zeppi.

By the way, GOM is open.

If GOM is open for business as announced earlier, then why would accounts still not be fully functional?

LL does not have the legal authority to act as a third party arbiter and reverse the payment out to IGE. LL can only address fraud committed against LL or it faces legal liability. In addition, unless and until there is solid proof that IGE was an accessory to this fraud, then the assumption that LL was used as a vehicle to perpetuate fraud is wrong.

And again I know I said I wouldn't perpetuate this discussion here, but it seems that several people have missed the post about GOM being open for business again.

Please sign in to access your cash. If you are still having problems, please let me know, but otherwise I think I should have posted that announcement here too... sorry.

J

I just have one question in this fiasco, which will help me make up my mind.

Awhile ago, IGE posted on their website that the purchase of Linden's was "limited" -- and some days, they were not accepting Linden's since they were, um, full.

Has this policy of IGE changed? I do know that they were accepting 50K at one time, then after the 50K, they were no longer purchasing Linden's.

Which... if they still have this limited purchase policy on their website, would make me want to ask further... Why would they accept such large amounts from new accounts to their business as well?

Can someone validate for me that IGE still has the limited purchase of Linden's on their website?

this is true. the fraud was committed against paypal. they should honour payments made during the time it took them to realize their accounts were being hacked. then they should go after the perp with great alacrity. i learned that word on star trek. gom, ll, and ige should just have all the transactions completed normally. their systems were not at fault.

if y'all want to assign blame and worry about the security of your money, talk to paypal.

ya me too lol

Lynn,

IGE seems to vary - sometimes they are overstocked, other times I have sold 50k or more at once with no problems. The last several transactions I have made, I have had no problems at all. It often seems to vary on the time of day too - I don't think it is a limited purchase policy overall, I think their systems just monitor the volume and cut it off at a certain point until it balances out.