DO NOT use SL to buy anything using your bank account, mine got cleared out

You thought wrong. Chaos is the only one with the answers for his behaviour, and he has yet to explain himself.

Yeah - good luck with that one.

This issue was resolved on page one of this thread, regardless of if Chaos wants to admit it.

Quite so. Still, I would like an explanation for the web of lies he has spun us with this thread (no pun intended - well, maybe a bit.)

DO you use a credit or debit card? If so, then that is normal. When you are billed to your credit/debit card an authorisation is created; that means your bank have given permission for the merchant to claim the funds and have allocated them ready. The merchant then have three days to claim the funds (to use the consumer it appears to be billed straight away though). Sometimes the acquiring bank screws up and reports the first authorisation as a decline; so the merchant naturally tries to bill the card again. They then successfully complete the 2nd authorisation and take their $74, but are not aware that the first was successful. This first authorisation simply expires when the merchant fails to complete it.

That is all normal and is not a result of any wrong doing or errors on LL's part.
Anyone who uses their credit card in hotels on a regular basis is likely to have experienced this; hotels often authorise an amount on a card when you check in, but then do not complete it so it drops off by the time you check out.

That is quite simply the way credit cards work and have worked for decades - nothing more sinister than that.

It wasn't "sinister" it was incompetent.

Yep. The trick is now getting Chaos to admit it.

You misunderstood my post. The incompetance I was referring to was that Sl had deducted a payment twice from my account on a Friday and it didn't correct till monday. So during the three days, my balance had a payment taken out twice, till it was corrected. The amount was only 74 dollars. Had it been a large amount it would have naturally caused upset to have a large amount deducted twice from my balance.

Monday would be the next business day, fairly standard in most of the world.

It had nothing to do with business days. It was an amount removed from my account twice on a business day and restored to the balance after it had gone missing for three days. This never happens with other things I pay with a card nor had it happened with other SL payments. Nor am I the only person this has happened to.

Lets say I had just paid $3000.00 for land and had another $3000.00 in this account I was going to need on the next day for something else entirely unrelated to SL---but then I find the $3000.00 removed from my account twice, totalling $6000.00 thereby emptying my account for a few days.

Sorry Chris that is not "fairly standard." thats just stupid.

Sorry Chris that is not "fairly standard." thats just stupid.

Ok Rebecca, what time was the money removed from your account?
Is your bank open all day on Saturday? Half a day?
What is your time difference with LL?
Is your bank open on Sunday?

Fixing a bank error made Friday on Monday is fairly damn standard.

Ugh. Its a goddamn SL error not a bank error. What is with this constant apologizing for SL?

That's not what is stupid. What kind of rock do you live under where businesses don't use business days? Banks may have websites online 24/7 but account transactions still work on business days.

Ugh. Give it up.

What part of "SL deducted money twice," is not grasped here?

Furthermore, scheduled auto payments can come out at anytime, not just on business days, just as you can use your card to buy things on non-business days.

What about the converse, Rebecca? All you have is hate for these people and the game.

Ugh. Its a goddamn SL error not a bank error. What is with this constant apologizing for SL?

I don't hate what Sl could be I hate the way it is. Its incompetant. I also am disgusted by forum people kissing LL's asses while attacking individuals who get victimized due to LL's incompetance and complicity with the crooks and many scams that are rampant in SL.

I have never been scammed in SL--because I have never been so stupid as to trust it, but that does not mean I don't have empathy for those who have been scammed.

Its amazing to me, people could be so brainwashed to think that LL is not responsible.

This forums is composed of people saying they have been scammed, and the clique posters kissing ll's ass, telling them it's all their fault and then unleash a hundred posts calling the the victim a fool and saying how LL is not responsible.

It's really pathetic and entirely pathological.

I grasp that just fine. It's not right, it was an error. It should never have happened. But that doesn't mean that LL was dragging their feet - it was corrected in one business day, which is fair to anyone other than you.

By the way, it's still common practice for many banks that transactions done after a certain time count on the next business day.

You're pathological. There are plenty of reasons to be upset at LL, but you assign EVERY fault to LL. I don't make it my business to crusade against LL and I have my grievances but I can separate LL from the players in the game. You cannot. It's not brainwashing, it's common sense. But you're inured to that, apparently. Yes, there is a lot of incompetence in LL, from the top down, but they are not responsible for every last bad deed that goes on in SL.

LL owns all of SL. They own every pixel and bit. They can pull the plug and render all investments null and void, even investments of thousands of dollars.

They continue to have illegal systems in place and have for long periods of time accepted money from crooks in complicity with various scams which have skimmed off many thousands of dollars from unsuspecting fools.

They are paid by people to use their product, which has more problems then even an alpha or beta version of any other piece of software from a reputable company.

If you can't handle your product then stop selling it to consumers as a wonderful utopia, and take some responsibility for it.

The reason SL is empty and dying (you didn't notice?) is because they are killing it.

I can't remember EVER having a payment taken out twice from my account for anything, from any company.