The Long Arm of LL Reaches Into SLX

A SLX retailer was banned from SL and asked a question in the SLX forums about how to get her money out of SLX. The SLX Admin responded by freezing her SLX account!.
The response was
I am not too comfortable with SLX denying access to account holdings because you have some issues with LL. And there is no way to pay another avatar from SLX. I make sales through my Apez.biz website and sales in-SL that go straight into my Apez account. Apez allows me to pay other avatars straight from their website. I think that SLX is too much 'in bed' with LL on this issue.

So people, don't think you can save your funds from LL by placing them in your SLX account. Cash out of SLX as often as possible or some arbirtrary Linden Ban could clean out your SL account and your SLX account.
http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=43615&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

or simply behave so you don't get banned from video games and their accomplices. just a thought.

We now have the official response from the hall-monitor.

LOL i'm not a perpetual victim. i plan ahead.

3Ring made a lot of sense with her post.

Well that is what this post is about - plan to be screwed by SLX if Linden Lab tells them to do so. Just a community announcement.

Well if the money is in question,wouldn't that be the right thing for SLX to do?(freeze the account)...


ETA-Did she get banned because of behavior or was there some kind of money issue?(stolen etc..)

Not much different from the real world. Piss off the wrong people, you get your accounts frozen and seized in a lot of different places.

If you got a ban from SL that had nothing to do with money could SLX just wipe any money you had on their account with them?

What happens to lindens that they wipe ( IF they do ) ?.. Where do they go?

Once again we hear one side of a story and are expected to react?

Yep, when you perpetrate fraud, they have a right to follow that course of action...For those that do nothing illegal, they have nothing to worry about.

If it was a behavior issue,than I agree they need to give her,her money back. But if it was a money issue,than I can understand.

But what if its a ban for being an idiot griefer and has nothing to do with any money.. can any lindens be wiped from SLX then? Where do ANY lindens that get wiped actually go?

I don't understand how it works.. I am trying!

Tiana, in that case, I doubt it.

If they were a vendor on SLX, they would have to be suspended. Banned avatars cannot provide goods and services, or perform currency transactions.

..or am I missing something here?

If it was a ban for being an idiot griefer, consider it a stupidity tax.

in their own pocket....


SLEX is not real fun and in the last couple of weeks more then 50 Merchants got banned by asking this yearly Question .... Why AC get other rights then normal users. Why People get banned for nothing but racism tolerated. and so on. SLEX forgets that Merchants and SL residents brought em to that place they are at right now. And yeah of course their Silent Partner AC with a lot of money. However if SLEX keeps doing this and tolerate their Merchants unless they are very huge friends they might close their Service soon. Onrez gets better each day and charge no fee at all. SLEX's childish try to recruit some Merchants or get older ones back with a Vendor Network might not work at all. With that said.... Bye Bye SLEX

They get.... taken care of. (^_^)

Welcome to The Village. (^_^)y

This thread is nonsense. I've dealt with SLX as both customer and seller for years, and found them to be professional and responsive -- in fact more so than almost any online service I'm aware of. Since only speculation exists about allegations of banning, here is my attempt to fill the void: the person had it coming.

stop harrasing people and you wont get banned so often Lias

Do you really believe that? If someone was banned by "mistake" and managed to get their account back into good standing, maybe after god knows how much spent in phone calls.. only to find maybe a LOT of lindens wiped from SLX because of it?

Do you really think thats fair?

I'm confused at this.

Nice spin Lias. Perhaps you should submit the whole thread before you decide to post what you want people to believe. The SLX suspension was not due to the response it was due to the fact that the SLX TOS clearly states 'if you are in good standing with LL' -- Sami clearly goes on to say that the Exchange will be happy to release the account when the issue with Linden Labs is cleared up.

When real money is involved, expect real circumstances. If the account was possibly involved with suspicious or fraudulent activity, then good for the Exchange for shutting them down! The question also is -- What did this person do to get shutdown by LL? LL's banning system is not that arbitrary -- I have been put on hold once until I contacted support and was quickly reinstated and yes it had to do with Risk API. And....considering that is a pecuniary function, that directly effects the operation of the Exchange.

Now pardon me while I go put on another layer of troll repellant

I have never had any problems with SLX and don't plan on getting banned from either place.. but I am really curious about this.

If an account is shut down, what happens to any lindens in that persons account at SLX... even if they are banned from SL over nothing to do with money?

If someone is banned for fraud from SL and it involves products they sell on SLX then if SLX did anything other than freeze the account and refuse to pay out the funds they'd be complicit in the fraud.

If someone gets banned just for being a jerk I can't see that SLX would have any justification for retaining any funds they might have due to the ban, BUT since SLX pays out in L$ to active SL accounts, it's not unreasonable for them to say "sorry, you're SOL." If that's their stance (which would be understandable) then it should be in their TOS that you have to have a valid SL membership in good standing in order to receive any cashout (provided that's the only way they ever pay out). I've never read it so I have no idea if it is or not.

Bottom line - don't get banned from SL. It's really NOT that hard to do.

By mistake and because you are an idiot griefer are two different animals.