Newbie question: what happens when Sims which were up for auction, don't sell?

When an entire Sim goes up for auction for US$, and it doesn't sell, what does Linden do with the land? Is there a hard and fast rule? Does it suddenly become available for someone to buy publicly for L$1 per sm? There seem to be a lot of Sim auctions recently, which did not sell...the land is still purple with an auction ID, but the auctions do not show up in the completed auctions queue.

Do they just put them back up for auction again at a later date?

More than likely, it goes back up for auction with a new name. Think about it, if you are linden labs and you just bought a server for thousands of dollars, it has just become a negative inventory number not making you any money. Once its sold, 1 server which hosts 4 sims will make you about $4000 from the start and produce revenue of around $780/mo ($9,360/yr). So it wouldn't make sense to keep buying more servers which don't sell at auction until you can move out that inventory.

And with LL pinching pennies, I'd be pretty certain they are only holding 1-3 servers (4-12/sims) in (to be sold) inventory before stocking up on more and putting it in the auction. And thanks to FedEx and speedy data center folks, they can employ a (Just in Time) inventory control model.

Sounds like the IM people where I work! However we have so many dead Dells around the office they can usually find the part required and replace it! My Computer has gone Tango Uniform twice this year! Ah the sight of a Dell GX270 displaying the blue screen of death first thing in the morning Life is sweet laugh*giggle*laughing my all day long )

It goes back for auction after a little while, usually with the same name.



I'm 99% certain you're wrong about this RDB - Andrew Linden I think it was said they buy a whole new stack at a time, which was behind some of the big multi-sim auctions that worked oh so well a little while ago.