Why did the Gaeta auctions stop?
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Drongle McMahon
Older than he looks
Join date: 22 Jun 2007
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05-14-2008 04:30
Have I missed something? Suddenly, after more and more sims being auctioned each day, there are no more, even though not all of Gaeta is sold. Is this becuase the price dropped below US$1000? Or is it a pause for reconsideration by the new CEO? Or did the sky finally fall?
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Dekka Raymaker
thinking very hard
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05-14-2008 05:08
or broken?
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Ciaran Laval
Mostly Harmless
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05-14-2008 05:19
Wow mainland sims costing less than a private island, that can't be good.
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Joy Iddinja
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05-14-2008 05:24
Exactly. That is the point. I've been in SL for almost 2 years now, and I've noticed, having survived 4 land dump inspired mainland market crashes, that whatever the price of a new private sim is in SL, LL never lets a crash go more than .1 or so below that. I don't understand why, as private sims still have the drawback of the higher tier rate, compaired to mainland, but for some reason, that is the way they play it. From: Ciaran Laval Wow mainland sims costing less than a private island, that can't be good. |
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Raymond Figtree
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05-14-2008 22:55
No mention of anything on the blog yet there are no US$ plots available for auction. Something is wrong with full sim auctions. Winners over the last few days were not getting their sims right away after payment. Of course we all have to guess what's up because of LL's continued horrendously lacking communication skills.
If the machine I used to make money went down, I would tell my paying customers why.
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2k Suisei
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05-15-2008 00:05
From: Joy Iddinja I don't understand why, as private sims still have the drawback of the higher tier rate, compaired to mainland, but for some reason, that is the way they play it. I think island sims were in higher demand and LL was struggling to meet that demand. So rather than have a long queue of angry customers, LL just increased the price of the islands in order to reduce the demand. |
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Qie Niangao
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05-15-2008 03:28
I was one who got caught-up in the Auctions system bottleneck this week (little L$ auction), so it may be "technical difficulties," but I kinda hope not. Not that I care what happens to land prices, but it would make me feel all warm and fuzzy to believe LL has its finger sufficiently on the pulse of the market to realize that right now there's just no demand for the Mainland already on the map. Lots of reasons for that, of course.
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Lucrezia Lamont
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05-15-2008 06:35
I think LL ran out of Mainland and Island servers.
*giggles*
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Marianne McCann
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05-15-2008 06:43
I think it is because they planned an infohub on dat continent. An you know what dat's like,
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MarkByron Falta
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05-15-2008 12:51
Looks like all the auctions (both USD and Linden) have come to a virtual halt and not a peep to be heard. Nothing on the blog, the status page, or twitter. Is the Linden auction guy on vacation, did Ebay break, and where's the resident communications manager to keep us informed?
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Raymond Figtree
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05-15-2008 16:00
Katt Linden in a blog comment: I’m checking on the auction system.
Sad that it takes us asking about it in a comments section to get them moving on giving us info.
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Raymond Figtree
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05-15-2008 17:16
$US auction page is back up with six sims listed and no explanation of why it was closed for two days.
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Dekka Raymaker
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05-16-2008 03:15
it could very likely be security issues, if it was we were promised an explanation a couple of days ago, when the issue is resolved, if they remember, if they weren't just bullshitting us.
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