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Brazil Comet
Registered User
Join date: 13 Nov 2006
Posts: 122
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10-09-2007 03:59
From: Raymond Figtree Wow! Those are some stunningly low prices considering how few sims have been dropped to auction lately. I wonder how badly LL is getting hit right now. I have to think this has to be their worst quarter in a long while as far as income goes... in terms of income from auctions yes, but point is that they make at least 3 million US$ each month from tier only (islands and mainland). This is a nice cash flow. Even if land price in mainland goes to 3 they will continue to make 3 million US$ per month. |
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Jim Perhaps
Registered User
Join date: 10 Dec 2005
Posts: 65
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Yes the new system has problems
10-09-2007 04:34
I won an auction on Friday September 5th. Auction closed at 1:45pm PDT. It is now Tuesday 4:30am PDT and I still do not have my land. Big chunk of land too. Lindens have contacted me and said.. write a support ticket. Tickets have been written. Still no land going on four days after close of auction.
This I hope answers any questions about if there are issues with new system.
Jim
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Egon Rothschild
Never Enough Prims
Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 556
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10-09-2007 13:46
just checked. we seem to have some auctions listed.
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Raymond Figtree
Gone, avi, gone
Join date: 17 May 2006
Posts: 6,256
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10-09-2007 14:26
Four plots total. No full sims, but two pieces of the same sim that almost make a whole. No bids yet. Yawn.
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Cristalle Karami
Lady of the House
Join date: 4 Dec 2006
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10-09-2007 14:40
Are they granite?
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Raymond Figtree
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Join date: 17 May 2006
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10-09-2007 14:42
From: Cristalle Karami Are they granite? LOL. I couldn't care less. I ain't biddin. But thanks for the laugh.
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Alan Bamboo
summer
Join date: 8 Oct 2006
Posts: 161
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10-09-2007 16:18
Originally Posted by Alan Bamboo 09-06-2007
Land for Sale Today
Residents With Parcels for Sale 7,341
Total Parcels For Sale 45,397
Total Square Meters for Sale 32,890,832 /65536 = over 500 sims for sale right now
Last Updated: Monday, October 8, 2007
Reflects data through midnight, October 7.
Land for Sale Today
Residents With Parcels for Sale 7,349
Total Parcels For Sale 45,419
Total Square Meters for Sale 27,640,624/65536= over 421 sims for sale right now
79 less sims(roughly and in terms of total square meters for sale) for sale than 1 month ago
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Egon Rothschild
Never Enough Prims
Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 556
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10-11-2007 15:02
From: Egon Rothschild after submitting a support ticket over a month ago about a 512 piece of linden land, i finally got a response. it seems LL will be auctioning the land. i looked at the land today and indeed it shows an auction ticket number.
so i went to the auction website and .. nothing.
now i was told that it might take a while for it to "show up" but there was nothing on the website. no US$ auctions. no L$ auctions. not just the one i was looking for ... but NONE.
when i click on the US$ and L$ categories, i get "search did not return any items".
all "ending in one hour" and "ending today" and "just listed" links showed nothing.
i "signed in" also, and the same. no listings at all.
i have not been on the new auction site so i don't know if i am doing anything wrong. am i missing something ... or ... is there no land up for auction today? ok. i bid and won the plot in question. i'm not even gonna address why the price went so high. i've not payed this much for a 512 plot since the heady days of last winter. anyway, i've never won an auction before. has anyone here? i see the plot still owned by the guv. will it eventually be set to sale to me? |
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Egon Rothschild
Never Enough Prims
Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 556
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10-12-2007 14:02
seems that the auction system is sorta stuffed at the moment.
in the bowels of sl, it shows available for me to buy. but it still shows as auction on ABOUT LAND and the website link from PAY NOW leads nowhere.
luckily, i got a hold of leo and guy linden who are helping in this matter.
i'll keep y'all posted.
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Sindy Tsure
Will script for shoes
Join date: 18 Sep 2006
Posts: 4,103
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10-12-2007 14:54
From: Egon Rothschild ok. i bid and won the plot in question. i'm not even gonna address why the price went so high. i've not payed this much for a 512 plot since the heady days of last winter.
anyway, i've never won an auction before. has anyone here? i see the plot still owned by the guv. will it eventually be set to sale to me? A surprising number of new people think that auctions are the only way to get land. I've talked more than a few through Search->Land and they were amazed.. |
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Egon Rothschild
Never Enough Prims
Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 556
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10-12-2007 14:55
oh jeez. no wonder the plots this week were SOOOO high... $L20K for a 1024. L$15K for my 512. etc.
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Egon Rothschild
Never Enough Prims
Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 556
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10-15-2007 12:27
just to let y'all know.. if you're still interested..
i talked to leo friday evening. it took about 2 hours but i finally got my auction land.
leo finally went around the auction system and just set the land for sale directly to me. whew.
i'm still trying to figure out just who bid this 512 plot up to $L15K. the old system showed just who bid after the auction closed.
i can't figure out how to see this in the new system. anyone know how?
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Lindal Kidd
Dances With Noobs
Join date: 26 Jun 2007
Posts: 8,371
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10-15-2007 14:45
What puzzles me is why so FEW parcels are listed for auction at any one time.
Thousands of parcels are up for sale across the grid.
The new auction system is "powered by eBay", a system that's proved itself capable of handling hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of simultaneous auctions.
So...lots of product. An auction system that can take the strain. But only eight or ten auctions listed at any given time. WHY??????
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Egon Rothschild
Never Enough Prims
Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 556
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10-15-2007 15:11
From: Lindal Kidd What puzzles me is why so FEW parcels are listed for auction at any one time.
Thousands of parcels are up for sale across the grid. yes, but those thousands are "for sale" ... not up for auction. auction plots will show up in purple. "for sale" in yellow. |
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Sindy Tsure
Will script for shoes
Join date: 18 Sep 2006
Posts: 4,103
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10-15-2007 16:35
From: Lindal Kidd What puzzles me is why so FEW parcels are listed for auction at any one time. They did just change the auction system, too.. They seem to be adding more and more but it's been slow to start. LL will get a much better return by not flooding the auction market, too. It's not just if they can dump a ton of parcels in there, it's if it's in their best interests.. |
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Lincoln Lupino
Hats & Slats Maker
Join date: 3 Dec 2006
Posts: 122
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10-15-2007 16:38
From: Egon Rothschild i've been around the block for a while. i have swapped with at least 2 of my neighbors. only after i got to know them tho. never had a problem.
this guy tho ... i decided it was best to stay away from him. i certainly didn't want to get involved with him financially or land-wise. the reason i was supposed to look for land for him is that he's not in sl much anymore. well, i figured, since his membership is up in late november .. i can wait for his membership to expire and his land go to the guv .. and hopefully to auction near the end of the year. i'm patient.
and since i have his ugly build surrounded on 3 sides by a very nice, high, ivy covered stone walls ... it's not too bad.
i just thought you'd all get a kick out of the L30K offer.
(i know i did) Of course he will probably build a giant toilet on it now for you to look at. LOL |
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Raymond Figtree
Gone, avi, gone
Join date: 17 May 2006
Posts: 6,256
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10-15-2007 16:42
From: Sindy Tsure They did just change the auction system, too.. They seem to be adding more and more but it's been slow to start.
LL will get a much better return by not flooding the auction market, too. It's not just if they can dump a ton of parcels in there, it's if it's in their best interests.. Something odd is going on. No full sims to auction in quite a while. Perhaps it's that the new system is borked, or because the market is still scraping bottom at L$6.1 per meter. Wonder if Jack Linden will make another post. Typical of LL, they claimed they would be more forthcoming with auction info. This resulted in two blog posts and silence ever since...
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Meade Paravane
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Join date: 21 Nov 2006
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10-16-2007 08:11
I think the new auction system is still being worked on - I know Sindy won a few parcels Saturday night and was pretty grumpy about the way the system worked...
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Ciaran Laval
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Join date: 11 Mar 2007
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10-16-2007 10:17
From: Sindy Tsure
LL will get a much better return by not flooding the auction market, too. It's not just if they can dump a ton of parcels in there, it's if it's in their best interests..
The auction system will take off if they let us residents use it to sell our parcels. |
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Meade Paravane
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Join date: 21 Nov 2006
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10-16-2007 10:35
From: Ciaran Laval The auction system will take off if they let us residents use it to sell our parcels. I think that's the way it's going to go but LL will make less money that way. They're the only auction game in town right now..
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Sling Trebuchet
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Join date: 20 Jan 2007
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10-16-2007 13:02
Don't worry. Be happy!
There are 34 sims in purple on the Corsica map right now.
Most of them were not even there to have any colour a few days ago.
Could be that someone will start pressing the buttons soon.
Most of it is granite, but there's a nice little isthmus in the south east. You could have an isthmus for Christhmus (and maybe 'for cheep').
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