Complete Land Auctions Summary

I wanna be the Chocolate Factory!

Yes - I did



Actually, I was more surprised by the number of auctions I'd won than the amount I'd spent. I calculate I still own 10 of those 42 lots, though - so I feel less land baronish now!

New feature on the main auctions page is a small graph next to each auction winner's name showing when, over the last year, they've been active. This way you can tell the difference between active bidders and bidders who haven't bought anything for some time.

ahaha brilliant briliant..

any chance they could be graphs of their m2 purchased over time?

Also, is the little gap at the end of the mini-graphs just the end of the month?

BTW, I think the l$ and the us$ got mixed up Either that or I'm feeling a little poor..

Yup. I left a little room at the end for expansion.
Yeah, I saw that too and fixed it.

Mmmm, don't understand that sentence. What is one "consequential element"?

Anshe, I think what you do for Second Life is a benefit, as I've said before. Not a HUGE one, not one would couldn't live without... But you DO help the grid in your own way.

But, and this may be the last remaining thread of "baron fear" some people have, if you felt harming SL was worth a significant loss of money, you COULD ruin the economy.

Now, I'm probably talking US$1,000's here. You deal in large quantities of land and linden dollars. You could crash the market if you pulled out suddenly and at a great loss of profit.

It is your business sense that makes your enterprise large, however, and that same sense would forbid you to ever lose so much for so petty an act. I don't lose any sleep over the idea.

I think MORE barons of your caliber would prevent this though. AND that would lower land prices even further. Can you believe it? I'd rather have more land resellers...

pretty much what tiger is saying. SL could use more large volume traders. i'm just not up to that job.

Did I just hear what I thought I heard?

Oh my....you would have been burned at the stake 6 months ago for speaking such things Tiger.

Ah, but now..... I've seen the numbers.

What boggles my mind is the entry for Kurohyu Song...

His/hers average price paid for land is EXORBITANT! How can you stay in business by paying that much, when your competition is paying less than half that? And who are you scamming for 13 dollars a square meter nowadays?

They're in 2nd place in $US dollar equivilent spent, but 4th in total plots bought...

Weird.

LF

lf, that's a great question. this is why i asked if the data can be sorted for mature and pg.

my observation is that kuroyu tends to favour entire sims at a time, which are almost exclusively mature. thus her average purchase price is much higher than someone who deals with a larger variety of land.

Kurohyu keeps a lot of the land she buys for personal use. Usually the land bought really high. I don't consider her a full time land trader.

Kurohyu Song= LL? driving prices up? pure speculation.

If I recall correctly, Kurohyu was very active in land purchase when land prices in general were at a high. She has't been as prominent a land buyer since the prices fell from that peak in recent months.

Yes, like Robert just said. And sister Kuro is one sweetheart who enjoy land very much. I think it is not so easy to explain, but I think she take great personal joy in very special type of real estate like beautiful island or Maui sim. Maybe it is like an admiration of art for her, like other people collect antiques or painting. I saw her admire such landscape for some time before selling to other residents. So I think prices she pay reflect the type of land she bought. She used to focus on the high end of market

I don't think any person involved with trading land in SL has any relationship with Linden Lab. I don't think one company that collect 8 mio US$ of venture capital has any motivation to enter illegal business practises with alt accounts bidding on land auctions. From all my interaction with Linden and their employees I can only report having met individuals with professional attitute, integrity and demeneour completely contrary to somebody who would play alt account games.

Is the margin on land really only 10 - 15%? That seems insanely low.... What do you all think?

Actually her gross INCOME would be however much L$ was made reselling all that land, converted to US$. Her GROSS profit would be the difference, and her NET profilt would be aht's left after taxes and expenses.

I can't find the thread right now, but when discussing the recent job openings, Robin posted the rules that apply to new employees who keep their pre-employment SL accounts. One of those is that they are not allowed to participate in the auction process (though they may buy and sell land in-world). I fully believe this rule is enforced.

this is true; but there are a lot more reasons that telehubs are cancerous sores on our world. i won't hijack this thread i suppose. wouldn't really be worth my time to try starting another serious discussion on the subject either would it.

thanks for the stats tiger. i'm so glad this whole virtual economy game is working so well. people are making money and having fun at the same time. everybody wins; nobody loses. ll has created a perpetual money machine that functions in a utopian environment. can't beat that with a pancake.