Is everyone crazy???

Because they don't want to wait in line behind you, essentially. Too many sellers, not enough buyers, downward pressure. I'm sure there is L$ listed at that rate, the market just can't get there right now.

Yes. I'm crazy.

This could be a long thread.

Yet, it could be a fun one.

Could be a stupid question, but - Is trading Lindens for, say, WoW gold - a direct deal between two private interests without a middleman like IGE - kosher? Either interest of which could use the currency ingame or convert to USD....

I would just love to get an EGold account number from someone i don't know in SL so I can send him a couple of hundred bucks so he will transfer his lindens to me in SL after receiving my money

Tom and Jamie did it, Anshe does it, IGE does it... why can't you do it?

If you really want to have that discussion again, please look here.
Thank you, have a nice day.

I was being sarcastic, you didn't get it. The truth is, it's too risky to trade like that within SL with avs you don't know. you NEED the trusted third party or people will get scammed. I hate to say this, but everyone isn't honest

By the way, I AM going to do it. Check out http://LindenMarket.com/

thanks

Right, we can't possibly trust Linden Labs. Who the heck knows who they are. I would much rather deal with LindenMarket.com. That's a web site, it must be trustworthy. They don't let just ANYBODY get a web site.

Buster

Oh, my. It seems I just let loose the Dogs of Thread War.

I would think that it's obvious to everyone what the disadvantages of unstructured cross-game currency trade are, and what the advantages of a third party like IGE would be. And I would think that it's obvious to everyone that such disadvantages can be largely countered through some simple solutions, such as knowing and trusting the person you're doing business with. Heh, right?

But those matters, sarcastic or otherwise, are all off-point.

My real question was simple and fairly narrow: Is there anything in the contractual obligations, standards, or practises that you and I signed with, say, LL or WoW, that prohibits us from conducting such private trades? Is there anything formal that would prevent such trades from occurring at a rate that might have (a small) economic meaning in, say, SL?

WoW does not allow selling of game currency. Anyone caught doing so can have their accounts banned. My character isn't worth being banned over gold that I can earn with a little work. I mean there is a sure way to earn cash in WoW, in SL that is not the case. You can make something awesome and never make a dime off it, but in WoW, you can always make something.

Additionally, on top of it violating the WoW TOS, there are a lot of complexities involved in doing trades between a non-sharded world like SL and one that is not only sharded, but also has two completely separate factions on each server. It is not just an SL->WoW trade, but an SL-->a particular WoW server, either horde or alliance character only.

Noted.

Noted.

She wasn't talking about buying through LindeX, Buster. She was talking about some average Joe in SL agreeding to sell L$ one-on-one.

And how is LindenMarket.com any different than dealing with GOM, IGE, or Anshe?

P2

Until it is revealed who is operating it, it has zero credibility as a financial site. The difference is that Jamie of GOM had a strong reputation in the community. IGE is a large, established company, and Anshe is well established as well. The site will have an uphill battle to establish trust unless there is some well known reputation backing it.

I am crazy, but not in relation to L$.

If EVERYBODY that currently has sell orders cancelled them and re-posted 20c more expensive then the buyers would have no choice but to continue buying at the more expensive rate. BUT, if just one person decided not to, then all theirs would get sold first and others would come in and post new orders at the same or better price so that theirs got sold as well.

You suspicions of impatience are well founded.

It is the same reason that business around the world don't change more then they do. The ones that try and do it, they get thrown in jail.

Let me spell it out because sarcasm is not always appreciated. I was responding to Domoneetisha's assertion that some average Joe needs a third party site because that would be more "trustworthy". In my opinion, Lindex is more trustworthy than any third party site would be.

I can't imagine any rationale for someone wanting to deal "one-on-one" with a stranger when there is a market.

Buster

No, I am talking about price fixing. Sure you can try and raise your price, but if the market doesn't want your higher price, then you will be undercut.

Better deals? Less fees? Sell it now, instead of wait for it to sell? These are all reasons I would use a 3rd party option.