seeking advice on what to do with website

hi all, I am at a cross roads so to speak.

I created a website with hopes of it working out for what I was doing at the time.

I was selling lindens to folks who could not buy them for whatever reason, but alas I got burned too many times to continue with the idea.

(ppl would pay via paypal then do a claim to paypal that it was unauthorized usage of the cc, burned me for close to 1K US, so I stopped doing it.

anywho the website I registered is http://www.lindensforsale.com

my question is, what could I use this site for that would fit in with the name?

I thought about using it for my own store (small time designer in game) but the name makes no sense for something like that.

so I am seeking help, suggestions anything to inspire me to use this for something.

(yes it is a very basic layout as I was just messing with it a little bit not looking for critique on the website design, looking for suggestions as to what to use the site for...


thanks in advance

Non-topic thread, u should post ur problem in "Residents Answer" forum at:
/327/1.html

I posted it here because it pertains to resident run website, it is not a question directly related to SL and the use of SL

If I understand correctly answers forum is for directly related to SL questions.

heck I could be wrong and if a mod sees fit to move the thread I am all for that

after all I am only human and prone to making mistakes

Lindens, as in: $L, or real live Linden Research, Inc. employees for sale?

Just curious... it's a small syntactic point but really a bit of a big difference in the end, you see.

ROFL

um the currency lindens...

hmmm wonder if I could get any of the linden's, as in employees, to agree to be sold... LOL

I don't think so

Perhaps instead of taking PayPal (and getting scammed--consider why, exactly, would somebody have a PayPal account and not be able to use the LindeX themselves?) you could shift to taking things like checks and money orders. (Lindens by mail!) That way, you'd get paid with more certainty and people who can't use PayPal for whatever reason would still be able to get Lindens. There'd be more of a delay, but at least you'd be dealing with more solid currency.

I was thinking about doing the same myself, at some point, but if you already have the Linden reserves to pull it off, maybe it would work for you.

the thing is I was doing it to be nice to those who could not get lindens

(there are more reasons other than no info on file, to not get lindens)

the biggest one is new residents who overdraw their limits... those were my biggest customers... but alas it was not one of them that scammed me, it was the ones who bought 1 time amount and then reclaimed their real money

(I was buying from the lindex, I do not have the kind of lindens in reserve, if I did then the scams would not have hurt me so much)

but still unsure what to use the website for... maybe I will just sell the site, might be useful to those already doing well and are established in the linden sales business...
again not sure what to do (what would the value of such a site name be worth)

Having been in the website business for a number of years, I'll tell you exactly what I do when I find someone has registered a site-name that I like: I offer them US$10. If they don't take it (99.9% of the time they want some outrageous sum containing at least 4 digits), I am 99.9% certain to find an alternate name that I like just as much (or more).

HOWEVER...I'm sure you'd be able to find someone out there willing to pay at least in the hundreds for your site-name.

I would re-try a L$ for sale type operation myself if I were you. I'd just work a bit harder to close off scam-potential.

thanks kenn and I would not expect in the 100's let alone 1000's for a website LOL

but hey if someone came to me and offered me 100+ US (or linden equivilent) I would prolly say yes

as for trying to selling of lindens again, I dunno, it was a headache and nothing really to be made

I did it more as a favor for a couple friends then decided why not put some on ebay then some ppl got my name then I got scammed

so sad the scammers ruin it for the honest folks and nice ppl

(I could maybe might reconsider the "lindens by mail" thing... after all they can not take back a money order and I would stick with money orders, as checks can be stopped)

thanks for the input folks, still unsure what to do... I should have picked a better name that I could have switched to a business other than selling lindens (was a good idea at the time heh)

hi there, not to be a terror monger, but do the lindens know about this site u registered. you could actually have some serious trademark issues on your hand, especially if you sell it for a lot of money. lindens are a registered trademark of linden labs, and if you registered it after it was already trademarked, u are the party at fault for not doing a trademark search to make sure. used to work for a trademark law firm.

just be careful! good luck!

lindens alone yes, but what about lindens as part of a full word?

thanks for the heads up, but would that not be the same as ppl using sl or secondlife as part of a website name?

That's why people use SL in their website name instad of "SecondLife"

i.e.
SLUniverse
SL-Forum
SLExchange
SLBoutique
SLProfiles
SL.ME.com

You will not see community websites like:

SecondLifeUniverse
SecondLifeForum
SecondLifeExchange, etc

Here are the guidelines:
http://secondlife.com/corporate/trademark/print_web.php (A lot of links wih info there)

There was also an interesting thread on Second Citizen regarding the use of SecondLife in a domain name:
http://forums.secondcitizen.com/showthread.php?t=10966&highlight=extortion
The first post applies to this situation perhaps.

Hope this helps!

Is "linden" as a term for the virtual world currency trademarked?

You could sell these:


There's lots of web sites with "secondlife" in the domain or subdomain.
http://mysecondlife.com/grid/default.aspx is one with secondlife in the domain name.

There's tons of urls with secondlife in a subdomain name.

There's http://www.secondlife.net , a furniture repair site.

None of the comments about "secondlife" have any necessary bearing on using "lindens"in a domain name.

Maybe you could work out some kind of deal with the Linden staff to "sell" them, with the proceeds going to a charity. Or maybe some of them are into Gorian roleplay and such things and would be glad to be on the auction block.


I note that one page on use of trademarks says you can put them on physical things to distribute to friends, ie, people that don't give you anything of value in return. Would that mean you could sell them for lindens, since lindens, according to Linden Lab, have no value?

By the way, Microsoft has a deal for users of the free, badly named, "Office Live" website service, it will provide a domain name for free. Once you register, the domain name is yours for a year, to use with the MS service, or to transfer to a different host, I think. That's kind of hard to believe but that appears to be what it says on the MS site.

--- Well, I got one of the MS Office Live accounts, so I now have a domain name, www.suebaskerville.com --- . What I have it for, I don't really know, but I liked the price.