Land Sale Mistake !!!!!

Hopefully they will immediately freeze all assets in question.

I would hate to see someone thinking they are buying land legitimately from the person who .... stole / scammed / whatever word you want to use... the land and then boom, the lindens come in and take it back

Is the land frozen at least? What happens if the perp chops it to pieces and sells it to a dozen people? This is a LOT of money we're talking about, and it's clearly theft.

I say do everything by the numbers so the Linden Labs can have a chance to make this right. If they make it right (which ought to include permanent termination of the perp's accounts and a ban on all of her known credits card at the very least), then everything is okay and the Lindens are heroes.

However, if the Linden's say "Sorry, too bad", then you should see a Real Life attorney. That way you could at least recover your two thousand US dollars, and possibly force Linden Labs to make an extremely simple dialogue box, solving this exploit once and for all.


Gydeon.

How do you know it's an alt - people always seem to presume many newbies are alts.

I don't think it is clearly theft at all. They put their land for sale at X price - whether they *meant* to or not isn't the point.

What we don't know from the original post is how long the wrong piece of land was on for sale for.

You can't actually steal land from people in SL afaik.

This is a very serious issue. I think there have been cases where mistakes like this were undone with Linden intervention, but you have to get on them IMMEDIATELY, and it has to REALLY be a "while I was working on the land somebody bought it" mistake.

If you set the price and then went away, discovering your mistake only when somebody bought the land at the price you set by mistake (i.e., hours or days later), then you are out of luck.

(Still I'm going to hotline this issue for you.)

Buster

It's theft in spirit, if not by the letter of the law.

Its very SAD, to let this happen. I can't believe that people who come here for a " Second Life" are still mean and cruel as they are in their so called " First Life". I think somebody should do something to help solve this. very sad that things like this happen

The second I clicked on sell land the land was bought....I was standing right there on the land with my friend and we were trying to tell her it was a mistake. She and her friend insisted of keeping MY land and right now they are sectioning it off and selling it in Coniston !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you try live help?

Did you abuse report them?

I hope the Lindens move to rectify the situation. I cannot imagine doing something like that. Cheats and thieves deserve to be booted from SL altogether.

Yes Buster...I have sent 2 abuse reports...have talked w/ several lindens...have emailed Philip Linden...have called and spoken w/ someone from support.....and nothing is being done. She has her house set up on my land...along with her bud at the end of Coniston...has sectioned off a 512...and now has the rest of the land set to sell for 150,000

what did you pay fpr the land, actually?

Well because when the sign off on one piece of the land and sign on on the next piece of land a few seconds later to buy the first piece of land you just parceled off, and then change back to the other account, Its a kinda give away.

live help can't help with this.

need to find a linden liason.

live help can help you find a linden liason

Ouch.

This is a very serious issue. I think there have been cases where mistakes like this were undone with Linden intervention, but you have to get on them IMMEDIATELY, and it has to REALLY be a "while I was working on the land somebody bought it" mistake.

If you set the price and then went away, discovering your mistake only when somebody bought the land at the price you set by mistake (i.e., hours or days later), then you are out of luck.

(Still I'm going to hotline this issue for you.)

Buster





Buster it WAS A HUGE mistake......... sasi was sitting right there cutting up her land to sell. The absolute SECOND she clicked..... "the person" sent sasi money and it was a done deal before sasi could take a second breath. Sasi was LEARNING to begin with.... learning how to cut up her land to sell.

A Linden was called ASAP! AND WAS THERE ......... pretty much told them good luck and hope they worked it out.

Buster it WAS A HUGE mistake......... sasi was sitting right there cutting up her land to sell. The absolute SECOND she clicked..... "the person" sent sasi money and it was a done deal before sasi could take a second breath. Sasi was LEARNING to begin with.... learning how to cut up her land to sell. I just hope SL does the RIGHT thing!!

I believe they have been called on a few other occasions as the land has been cut up and put up for sale, one small pice already being sold, begging for the lindens to seize the land until dispute resolution takes place, but they dont seem to care, standard response seems to be its was legal, event thought the software is currently designed to enable a sale before the party realises it, due to other interface examples like when you enter music it doesnt start till you close the window. And then the cheek of it is that they even go and ban her from what is morally right her own land.

Sorry to say my secondlife is not becoming a place i feel comfortable being if i have to watch my back like this.

They can, they aren't breaking any rules. This was completely your mistake. While the person does seem to be an asshole, you are the only one at fault. I find it kind of funny to see you complain about a mistake you made while making someone else look bad.



The wrong thing would be to punish someone else for your mistake.

Ok, the person doesn't want to give your land back. It was your mistake and your fault. Nobody elses. All you can do is get over it and take this as a learning experiance.

Besides, your paying real cash for virtual plots of land, you were bound to get fucked sooner or later.

Well you've been using secondlife along time is that honestly your advice you give all newbies selling land for the first time, perhaps you should apply to be a mentor.
And why shouldnt someone complain if the software is presented in a misleading manner ending in financial loss, perhaps the software was purposely designed to do it this way, they like to add some grief to players and loss and stress as well as keep some cash to themselves, like how they dont bad alts for griefing, giving them warning after warning.

I guess money talks.

Um...

YEAH!!!

OK... first things first... You should have used the Sell To option to set it for sale to your friend.

Second, I know perfectly damn well that LL has reversed land sales that took place because the seller made a mistake. I know a few people who have dabbled in the "land baron" game. Two of them used to sit there hitting F5 all day on the land-for-sale list. (It's on the website somewhere.) Whenever they saw inordinately cheap land, they'd swoop in and get it. The previous owner would say it was a mistake and ask for it back and of course they'd say no. Both people reported that Lindens had come in and reversed the transactions, and that they'd been suspended for doing it multiple times.

The thing to remember is that some people consider this all to be a game, and they will do whatever it takes to "win."

Sometimes things like this happen via bugs too. Last Friday I set my land for sale at the correct price. It was when everything was really buggy, in fact that very day I had 2 people buy land from me, I received the money, but the land didn't transfer. I of course set the land to sale for 0L to them. Anyway, I had set the land to the correct price, next thing I know I get an IM asking if I meant to set the land to 1L per m2!! Luckily it was Lecktor Hannibal (thnx again Lecktor ) and not the ****head in this case, and he set it back to sale to me.

Sometimes bugs happen. Sometimes people make mistakes. I don't envy LL for having to make decisions in these cases, it's just a shame that we have ***** like this person who put them in this position.

I hope you get your land back Sasi