Nation Specific Billing

I think that most SL members would appreciate having national billing locations to ease cost and transaction problems.

Right now, my billing comes from the UK even though I am a US citizen and Linden Labs is a US Company. The result, I am hit with an additional fee of 1-2% for every transaction. That is not much for the $12/month fee -- but for an auction purchase of $3000, we are looking at $60 in an unnecessary charge.

Further, this charge often hits me more than once because, for some reason, the LL UK billing is never able to do the transaction in a single go. It runs, is reversed as "not accepted" by Linden Labs; runs again, returns again; finally runs completely. With three tries -- this can mean an additional $180 in unnecessary fees. These fees add up and will eventually suppress membership and sales by alienating people who feel the bite.

Something must give here.

Beathan Vale

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Actually, I do use paypal -- and it is the paypal fees I am talking about. As far as I know, auctions cannot be paid for using the paypal billing agreement that applies to ordinary fees. I use my Paypal debit card for auction payments -- and Linden Labs never processes it appropriately, and processes it in the UK.

It is really insane that Linden billing is not truly paypal compatible.

Beathan Vale