What can you do with the money you earn?

It is possible to earn a good bit of money in SL with camping and 'services' and selling stuff, but you can't get at the money.

If you try to cash out, a Risk API thing says you are not allowed to have any money.

The 'limits' are ludicrous low and do not allow any realistic commercial activity.

What can you do?

I have cashed out money before

erm just noticed date on forums is sept but... when did you first use the lindex for money transactions

that is the date when your lindex limit levels start from, from first purchase

which is why if anyone is planning to use the lindex, it is a good idea to do a small purchase asap

to get that ball rolling

Oh OK, thanks

I've never used that lindenX thing - I get money selling selling stuff, camping or 'on the game'.

I suppose I could buy some L$, but is there any way to find out how much I have to buy to try to let that Draconian API thing let me trade without saying I am not allowed to have any money?

Try buying a small amount first, like USD 10 worth. Once you buy your first amount, the clock starts rolling to count the amount of time since you first bought L$. Here is a link to limits n stuff. I'd post it here but it gets all jacked up since it's a table:

https://secure-web9.secondlife.com/currency/describe-limits.php

Do it through SLX. See other threads posted recently.

What ever have you that Idea? After you've made a single payment to LL for anuthing, a timer starts, and about 10 days later they allow you to sell L$ just fine. $2500 USD or more isn't enough for you to cash out at once? You must be one heckuva effective escort to haul down that kind of RL money in SL!

Just give it to me, I'll make use of it

No one's getting rich quick from camping. You need to have payment info I guess for the draconian API to estimate your exchange rate, which is subject to change minute to minute.

From what I recall, thinking back many moons ago to when I started, your limits increase but they will not increase until you buy som L$. Until then, you are still on your day 1 limit - even if you have been in SL for months. The clock starts to count from the day you buy your first lot of L$, not from when you start.

SLX is a great alternative to the Lindex for cashing out lindens, however they both use the same Risk API and if you trip it one place you'll trip it both places.

Unless, as has been suggested, the Risk API is in actuality the result of monkeys banging away on computer keyboards with the expected random output.

What I simply do not understand is every now and then a thread like this comes up. Someone never put a dime into the game, wanting to cash out, being surprised they are being hit by the risk API.

With camping you always spend more money paying for electricity, then you earn by sitting in that chair. So the only way to earn with camping, is running cuncurrent clients, or camping bots. That knowledge only would be enough to suspect someone from playing the system, thus falling under the risk API.

But it doesnt really matter, does it. As long as one did not put money into the game, I do not find it that weird that one cannot get money out of it. Period.

As for the OP, you state yourself that the system doesnt allow realistic commercial activity. In my humble opinion, realistic commercial activity always involves investing some cash, to get out more then you put in. The entrepeneurs that were succesful without spending a dime or two first, are very rare. And when I see how many people actually cover their tier or even gain a real life income with SL, your remark doesn't make too much sense to me.

Greetings, Marcel

Oh yes! Do it through the SLX! Timely, great customer service and did I mention that you actually get TIMELY customer service?

since there is currently no limit on how many av's one can possess (as long as you keep it at 5 per email addy), in your mind, why is that still considered a risk?

Marcel I believe is referring to the Risk API which limits linden trading as per the original post, not a risk as in hazardous?

Well I think that LL made a big mistake there anyway, unlimited avatars gives way to many possiblities to play the system.

In my opinion, to which many won't agree, they should limit alts only to people who have a premium account (so they pay a fee for playing the game, albeit a small one), and even then not more then a few. Together with payment on file that will give a much more trustworthy userbase then the current system.

Furthermore use of whatever kind of bot should be forbidden, though i would not know how that can be done technically Wether it is a landbot or a camping bot, SL does not benefit from them, only suffers. I am very glad that on the estate I have my business, camping is prohibited anyway.

And regarding to the OP, people who, wether with one or multiple clients, get a few linden by camping and cash them out, don't deserve much respect from me. So when they get a problem with the API, I am not impressed. People who invest time and money to create stuff, sell it, and cash out some of the earnings, will not easily become a victim of the risk API.

Greetings, Marcel

I would like to take a moment to remind the OP that the L$ and the USD are not the same value. There are roughly 270 L$ per US$. You'd have to camp a LOOOOOONG time just to make USD1, and even then, when you cash out, LL's going to charge you a 3.5% commission, so you'll really only be making 96.5 cents.

I think Linden Labs are going bankrupt -that is why the won't allow anybody to convert L$ to US$.

I would rather give my credit card details to the Mafia than Linden Labs.

For the record, I just today received a credit I put in for processing a week ago. Things are slower than last month, but that just means it's back to the week wait it has been most of the time I've been in SL.

I process credit monthly. I have had no problem after the initial 90 day period.

Allright, send them to me..

/me grins..

.d

Edit: (This is an actual joke, even if there is no emoticon.. I really don't want your cc details)