Transferring Lindens between your first and second avatar

How can I transfer some L$ between my two avatars?

Easiest way is to friend your alt.. then the profile is close by, pull it up, click "Pay"

Or send your money to me and i'll send it to your alt.

j/k

You can also just look them up in search. The profile will have a pay button on it. The transfer is instant.

I have actually been a bit leery about transferring money from Colette to Carli after that thread about Linden Transfers sending a red flag up in the Risk API.

I would love to know what is a "safe" amount of Lindens you can transfer between alts - and what is risky territory.

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As to the mechanic all you need to do is look up the Alt's profile and click "pay"

I think you're safe so long as you share the same email account. I had transferred thousands of L between myself and my alt at tier time and it was ok.

I do it all the time with my alt as I make all my ingame money on my main. I must admit my alt only has around 5k - 10k at a time from me, heck that is being generous to the lazy whatnot I have never even met.

A way around it if really worried is for the alt to make a box and sell it to the main for however much you wish to transfer.

I've been leery of a direct transfer as well, but so far haven't had any trouble when I've moved funds between my main and my alt. If you're feeling especially paranoid, you can always just set a prim for sale for the amount you want to transfer.

If anyone else buys it, hey! Bonus!

I got worried about this recently also, I decided to use a premium alt as a savings account to save up for an island. Without thinking I went on my two accounts that had Lindens I wanted to transfer and sent 125,000L to my alt, and then went on another account and sent L40,000. Later that evening it struck me that maybe that wasn't a good idea to send large amounts like that. It's been about a week now and I have not had any problems with any of the 3 accounts. So I'm thinking the amount has to be much higher than that.

LOL sounds like a plan.

Maybe I can leave it out long enough to get tagged by a spybot.

Amount doesn't appear to be part of the trigger, at least not quite so directly. I'm pretty sure Cory was banned for paying testers L$1,000 each. And the ban is immediate, so you're safe if nothing happens within a few minutes.

The two cases I've seen described on the forums are Cory Edo paying out a relatively small sum to about a half-dozen people at once, and a woman who was banned after trading a sum back and forth with a friend as they bickered (amicably) about the exchange. In both those cases the amount was relatively modest.

I remember the Cory Edo story ..

I am wondering in what vacuum the Linden who set up the trigger lives in.

I think it was the Linden in charge of most major plans and announcements. You may have seen him around the grid, Headupmyass Linden.

I do this all the time, never had a problem. One AV is premium and verified in all ways poss, the other is basic and not verified, but has the same RL info. They dont share an emailadress (they used to, but the basic got too much spam).

That's a risk factor too, btw.

A know several people who reported being banned because their main and alt(s) didn't display the same matching contact email, even though both emails were valid addresses going to the same RL person. Once the account information was reconciled, they were able to get back into SL.

Nothing like guilty until proven innocent.

I have 4 premium accounts and they all have different email addresses -- although they all have the same PayPal information. I transfer the weekly stipend from the other 3 accounts to myself all the time. I have forgotten at times and therefore ended up transferring a few weeks worth at once - I think the largest I ever transferred was 1200 from each of the 3. I've been doing that for many months now and have not had any problems.

You want to hear about the lindens and their assumption of guilt?

Me and my friend were sharing an alt account last week. Big mistake. We both got banned and accused of stealing login information. And when I called the support number it told me to call they said "since you are calling the fraud department you must have done something wrong" and "innocent people don't get this angry" about having to send in a SCANNED COPY OF THEIR ID. Are you kidding me? Even my bank has never made me send in a copy of my ID. Absolutely ridiculous!

They didn't even tell me reason they disabled my account until after I sent in a picture of my license. Oh, and I had to call twice, because the first girl hung up on me when I asked for an explanation.

That is not a factor at all. I have a dozen or so accounts, all with the same RL info (name, address, phone), but each with their own e-mail. I have used three different payment methods. Never had an issue at all with the risk API. And I send money from my main to my alts on a regular basis, to fund their shopping trips, as well as cashing out excess funds regularly from my main. I've dropped as much as L$15K on one of my alts, which they spent at various merchants over the next day or so, and never have been bothered by LL about that. But then again, I am an established content creator with a documentable income stream from my business ventures. There's never any question as to where my L$ came from, or where they are going.

I've sent 100K lindens to my alt...everything was fine.

I think some of us are getting bogged down in a whole lot of SLurban legend.

The girl that makes the MystiTool (Mystical Cookie, I think) also makes a ATM server. It is under $500L. Buy one for each of your avatars and have each avatar issue the other a ATM card. Then you can get and give money to your alt without having to log in and out of each account constantly.

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Ouch! My partner and I do that all the time.. Better show him this.. and next time I give him money he'd better keep it! *cough*

These are not urban legends of SL. I've known each and every one of the people who have reported real problems, and I've followed a day-by-day account of their struggles to get resolutions and answers from Customer Support.

The incorrect assumption of people posting "I've never had a problem" is that there is one specific rule that can be broken by X beahvior, and if everyone just avoids X, they're safe. If it were that simple, none of us would be freaked about the risk APIs.

Unfortunately, the triggers for these bans are not that predictible (which is the whole point, otherwise the intended targets would also just change their behavior and avoid X). There are probably many factors that go into developing a profile that leads to being banned. If you don't have some of those attriubutes or behavior patterns, then you don't have problem doing the very same thing that Cory Edo did.

The same appears to be true for the account banning based on inconsistent contact info. Some people got tagged for it, others (like myself) didn't. So etiher LL does spot-checking (like random drug tests) or there are other factors involved that they mulishly aren't willing to share.

It's the capricious and inconsistent application of these "rules" that has made SL feel like a game of Russian Roulette.