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Google just GOM'd Housingmaps.com and how this pertains to SL
Cheyenne Marquez
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04-06-2006 12:15
From: Rickard Roentgen
I don't remember what goms traffic volume per day was but I'm pretty sure it was comparable.


You're pretty sure? What makes you "pretty sure?"

Could it be that you have a bias and predispostion to want to believe that GOM is good and LL is evil?

The truth of the matter is that GOM's daily average was in the vicinity of two million per day. A far cry from the six to nine million that the LindeX is tallying. Also the fact that GOM was a trading market, meaning that many residents were using it to "day trade" multiple times per day, needs to be heavily weighted when comparing both.

From: Rickard Roentgen
As for giving new players an easy place to buy L. They didn't have to start their own service for that :). They should have given GOM and IGE and anyone else who requested it, exposure and easy access. For instance a page written in to the search screen, easily accessible by clicking your balance, showing exchanges. Each exchange listing would include some basic stats including volume traded, user rating, and maybe high and low trades of the day. To be listed an exchange site would have to implement a standard method for doing transactions, and returning stats. An interface LL could supply or spec out.

That's supporting user services, in my opinion much preferable to competing.


Think again. LL isn't in the business of supporting resident business. They're in the business of provided generic tools that any resident can use as they wish. If LL implemented such a feature, then they would have to be considered a partner in said businesses and transactions. In doing so, they would not only accrue partial liability for whatever problems transpired in any and all transactions within those businesses, but also create potential conflicts and complaints from those businesses alleging favorable treatment and/or favors between respective competitors.

From: Rickard Roentgen
As far as the lindex not being as robust as it could be to avoid competing... I understand teh reasoning, but I don't think it's the reason. I think LL just has so much on their plate that as long as the lindex works it's a low priority to make it work well.


You don't think? What makes you think this isn't the reason?

Again...could it be that you have a bias and predispostion to want to believe that GOM is good and LL is evil?

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From: Rickard Roentgen
and yes I can have it both ways, because there is a perception that goes with something "official".


:rolleyes:
Rickard Roentgen
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04-06-2006 13:58
try not to be so blatantly antogonistic :rolleyes:

I'll trust your numbers, but even so, that's not bad without the ready access of the lindex.

Try not to lump me in with that portion of the forums that hate LL. I do not hate LL. I think LL is playing catch-up in a very serious way. I think they are trying to work on more things at once than they can realistically handle. I think they do a pretty good job none the less.

I'm certainly no legal expert, but I don't see how LL would be any more liable than they are by creating their own exchange. If GOM or IGE had suddenly decided to rip off all their customers, how would that be different than one or more of the larger island rental businesses deciding to pull out of sl and take the next month of rent from all their residents? Would LL be liable for that? And if so, they seem to be willing to risk it in one case, why not the other? In anycase I'm saying that LL should have implimented tools exchanges could have used if they chose. I believe that's how you phrased it. I think that a very large part of SL is resident run business of every kind, so yes I think LL is in the business of supporting resident businesses

My sample is small and probably not representative, but I knew quite a few people who essentially stopped playing SL when trading on GOM dissapeared. Even I did that to a small degree. One of the reasons I preferred GOM.

Once again, not accusing LL of being the evil empire. I'm accusing them of being overworked and making a decision I do not agree with.

Knock off the eye rolling, perception DOES have an effect.

If LL didn't want to take over the exchange business then I go back to my original suggestion, that they should have implemented tools exchanges could use if they chose, rather than creating their own.
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Elde Eponym
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04-06-2006 16:23
From: Rickard Roentgen

My sample is small and probably not representative, but I knew quite a few people who essentially stopped playing SL when trading on GOM dissapeared. Even I did that to a small degree. One of the reasons I preferred GOM.


Everytime the (game|platforms|micronation) changes - there is going to be a number of people who quit. That shouldn't be a reason to freeze in place - because then people quite because things aren't "better".
Rickard Roentgen
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04-06-2006 16:29
From: Elde Eponym
Everytime the (game|platforms|micronation) changes - there is going to be a number of people who quit. That shouldn't be a reason to freeze in place - because then people quite because things aren't "better".


I did not advocate freezing in place.
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