Did I just get ripped off, or was this a fair transaction?

[They built a 30 meter lattice fence, so I put a 10x10 piece of plywood up because the diamond pattern made it hard to script]

Other Player:: listen
Scopi Pascal: hi
Other Player:: I have contacted a linden
Other Player:: all we want is privacy
Scopi Pascal: why
Other Player:: your call
Scopi Pascal: ok. im making a billboard
Scopi Pascal: i'll move it when im done
Scopi Pascal: you could by my land. i see i picked a bad spot
Other Player:: sure
Other Player:: that works for me
Other Player:: I am not looking for trouble
Other Player:: how much?
Scopi Pascal: what is going rate?
Other Player:: you paid less because its your 1st land I bet
Other Player:: @ 1 per meter
Other Player:: right?
Scopi Pascal: ill need enough money to buy a 512 lot
Other Player:: yep first lands are cheap
Other Player:: but I will give you
Scopi Pascal: i know but i cant get antother first land
Scopi Pascal: i have to by a for sale by owner
Other Player:: 2k
Other Player:: for it
Other Player:: 2.5k
Other Player:: its beach
Scopi Pascal: looking at prices.. hold on
Other Player:: ok
Other Player:: lemme know
Scopi Pascal: will do
Other Player:: thx sir
Other Player:: u find a price
Scopi Pascal: still shopping for a new spot. might have found one.
Scopi Pascal: few more minutes
Other Player:: ok
Scopi Pascal: 3500?
Other Player:: 3500 for 512
Other Player:: lol
Other Player:: 3k
Scopi Pascal: 3250
Other Player:: ok
Other Player:: set the land then
Scopi Pascal: ok i set the for sale .
Other Player:: kk

I would be happy to try your answer your question but what you presented makes no sense at all. Can you condense it to a few sentences?

that's about $6.35 a meter which sounds like a fair price to me. You definitely didn't get ripped off

i agree, that makes no sense, but i guarantee you got ripped off.

3250 for first land because you were annoying them. You made out.

^

That's a lot better. I just sold my first land for $2500. You made out like a bandit.

Why does one sell one's first land? I'm thinking about getting a premium membership, and I know I'll get first land with that.

What is the best thing to do with it, and why?

coco

I did a lot of things with my first land. I lived there until I bought more land and had a better house built on the new land. Then I loaned out my first land for free to newbs needing a place to live. Eventually I moved all the newbs to my new land and moved elsewhere and built my first shop on the first land. When I bought more land for my shop I moved the newbs (who were no longer new) back to my second land.

I eventually needed more third land so I sold my first land in able to afford this. If this sounds confusing you ought to try doing it!

You sell your first land because you buy it well below market value and the resulting flip is significant. It's the easiest and quickest way to make real estate cash in SL. In this case, someone paid L$512 for their plot and sold it for L$3250.

Profit: L$2738.

Your best bet is to grab first land in a Mature sim, since the land value is greater in these (at least, it used to be. is it still?).

Yes, it's much higher.

OK, thanks!

coco

Unless you find first land on a telehub or waterfront or really fantastic view with 3 corners of Linden land nearby or something, it's probably better to sell it. $3500 is about the average price for mature in a lot of areas but you can find it for even more some places. It's not a ripoff at all if that was indeed first land being sold.

$3,250L for 512 Mature first land... fair deal there on both sides. If anything you got the better deal. First land isn't desirable for resale except for a prim lot. Most don't want to be stuck beside a bunch of noobs, no offense, practicing their bad builds etc.

Hope this helps make you feel better. You made a good deal.

*sniffs* I smelled the alt last night, I smell the alt today.

I built the fence...and???

A friend asked me to put it the fence up. They wanted privacy. *yeah I know about camera controls but its what he wanted around his lot*. The fence went higher as you went higher in the air. You posted here that you were scripting but never once did you say that or even suggest to it. Chat log proves it.

He contacted you, asked you to sell, you sold...HIGHER than what you paid. So why do you think you got ripped off?

The lattice was making it hard to script? Couldn't have been the 6 or 7 scripts you had there already, could it? Or maybe the big waterfall that is there? nah that wouldn't be a problem in the least. *rolls eyes*

And lets see, as you posted in your chat log, you found another piece of land. So why was it you continued to stay there, sitting on top of someone else's house, when you were just innocently scripting? Maybe because you weren't?

I would say you got a fair deal. You might have sold it for more if you wanted to wait( it was on the beach which increases value) but a fast nickle is almost as good as a slow dime. You replaced it with a lot of your choice.. Sounds like everyone made out fine.

You got a fair price.

IMy first land was sold to my neibour, who offered 6K for it. I took 4K.

I then purchased 1024 of land for 1.8K I sold for 2K. depends on where your first land was.

Coco,

In response to your query, "why do you sell your first land?" I sold mine, not because I didn't want it, but because everyone around me sold theirs to someone slapping up a big black box, and calling it a club. So, eyesore combined with severe lag due to the scripts that invariably come with a club.

Was enough to send me screaming to a quieter area, established as residential before I moved in.

Joseph.

The sad thing about this is that you were trying to be an irritant and you know it.
I have no malice intentions towards you or anyone else in secondlife and went out
of my way to pay you what I called a fair price. Hope you enjoy the game and practice
better community relations.

Your price was indeed very fair. What about this "30 m lattice fence" that he describes, though?

A fence on my land to keep from seeing an unwanted person looking at me and my company or my wife relaxing...unreasonable?...he is just leaving out details. No matter but thx for the question.

I don't understand why a lattice fence on a neighboring parcel would make scripting difficult.

Yes, I was wondering about that, too. My neighbor's wall has gotten in my camera's way a couple of times when I was flying home in a vehicle, but it's never stopped me from working on my own place.


Gydeon.

It wouldn't and it didn't. If he would have said, hey I am just scripting. Not once did he say it. So, at first, the fence was going to be 10m..normal fence. Then he proceeded to go higher to irritate, so the fence went higher.

And I might add, considering he is a "newbie"...wow I didnt know what a prim was for the first week I started SL, much less the height of one. not to mention trying to script? For being less than a week old, someone sure is gung-ho. *rolls eyes*