Question about Land Use Fees

I have just changed my Land Use Fee down from $25 a month down to $15 a month. Before I did that I looked at My Account and it said Land Fee was $15 a month under the $25 a month plan. I did an experiment and did the $195 a month plan and it still says $15 a month in My Account. In My Account, is that just what I was paying or will be paying? Is this just a goof up in the system? Or is there some other explanation for that appearing there?

Edav,

What you are seeing is the charge for your peak usage of land.

When you choose a higher tier, say the $195 you are committing to possibly paying that much and reserving that amount of land for yourself.

This allows you to go "land shopping" and not have to go back to the website and confirm your parcel as long as you are within the amount your tier allows.

Your billing will then be based on your peak land usage and the approriate teir that falls into. Meaning the highest amount of land you owned at any given time during the month.

So given this, Speculators also need to remember that once the grace period is over, if you tier up to say the $195 plan and buy a bunch of land and sell it over say the next week for a profit and then tier back down to the lower level, you will be billed for the $195 plan on your next billing date. That being your "peak land usage" during the billing period.

That means if I take the $25 plan, i'll only pay $15 until I get over my land allotment of 3072 sq. m. Then, I'll be paying $25 a month. Correct? I'm not going to go back to the $25 a month plan, yet, just want to make sure about how it works.

that's a good question? i've assumed that once we approved a tier, we paid that fee whether we owned enough land to be in it or not.

my impression is that if i approve a $25 tier then sell ALL my land and tier down to $0 before my billing date, i will still pay the $25 once and $0 after that. so basically, we pay for the priviledge of owning that much land whether we use the allocation or not during that billing cycle.


you can, of course, purchase land without tiering. it reverts to public after twenty-four hours.

Hopefully a Linden will clarify, exactly what happens.

Pahoa's explaination is correct. Your bill will be based on your peak land ownership, so you can set a high tier without actually being charged that much. Likewise if you sell land and tier down, you won't actually start saving money until the next month.

thank you ian

Whats the phrase? "Ask and ye shall recieve" LOL Yes, thank you Ian