Yes, Landbots screw us once again, so keep cheering them on!

I just confirmed this and bug reported it.

1) AV "Seller" sets a piece of land for sale for L$100
2) AV "Buyer" selects buy land - the purchase price is shown as L$100
3) "Seller" changes the price to L$110
4) "Buyer" clicks Purchase on the purchase menu that still shows L$100

The result is "Buyer" pays "Seller" L$110 without ever seeing that as the price.

IMHO this is a clear SL bug which LL should immediately do something about and should compensate people who lost money because of it. They should probably also consider banning people who exploited it, although it may be tough to prove intent.

Sorry Colette but none of that is enforceable and not going to work to police something that can not be circumvented. If someone wants to make money with either a buying bot that buys low, or a selling bot that swaps the price to sell it high, its just not going to happen.

Programs such as this only stop honest people, and so far both of these bots are being used for less than honest and downright exploitable things.

By now everyone should realize that there is nothing you can do about it, and NOTHING LL is going to do about it. LL Don't care who, what, or how much people get ripped off as long as LL gets their money first!!!!!!!! People have had whole sims stolen by Landbots and LL has done nothing! So I wouldn't expect anything to be done about this practice now or in the future! They Don't care about people, They only care weather your CC # or Paypal account is Good!

What is the tree planting project?

Well for all you land bot supporters... Here is the latest unethical use of landbots.

Well most people are aware of how landbot users have been using the bots fast buying ability to take advantage of human and or latency errors. For example someone lists land for sale, lag or error causes the person to miss a number, bot comes and buys in a split second, or someone is trying to sell land to a friend or group land and a bot jumps in and auto buyers faster then the person acually standing on the plot can even move the mouse to click the buy button. But thats old news to most of you. If not see this thread = /327/7a/176533/1.html

Well now one bot user is using the bot to bait and switch residents. For example, The land is set for at 4400L. This is a decent deal, people land. The bot uses it's faster than human speed to quickly change the price to 44000L in hopes the person who clicks buy doesnt notice the extra number because the prices look similar on a glance, or else they are lagged to the point that the buy window doesnt update until it's to late and they have paid 44K for 512 meters of land. Bait and switch is an old dirty trick I've seen a few times in the past but ad the bots abilty to change the price faster than any human can change it, and it becomes a more effective dirty unethical method to take advantage of people.

So bring on your arguments of how a few bot dealers give back errors, or that this is the new way sl will be and bots are just more effective, But this type of speed and power should not be allowed when it can and obviously IS being used to take advantage of others. Or at least not be allowed for this type of unethical use. This week I've heard of 3 people getting taken with bait and switch, and 1 friend lose half a sim when trying to sell to a friend, on top of all the similar situtions that have been happening last few months.

As others have mentioned, the Arbor Project; trying to make the mainland more beautiful by reclaiming 16m2 ad-parcel lots and educating/dissuading the people who split the plots. A bit like you're doing - buying small plots (as long as they're not over-priced) and planting trees or gardens.

You can find out more at the Arbor infohub in-world at secondlife://pero/185/158/107, or on the website, http://arbor.npl.com/

The landbot owners go to a lot of trouble to code and maintain an automated system designed to buy land below market and resell it higher. They will never set their bots to only buy land that is set at market prices. Bots were born to swoop. And, according to LL's TOS, this is an honest and legal thing to do.

There's a jira bug that makes voting a little annoying..

...For others not familiar with voting for JIRA bugs, do this:

1. Go to http://jira.secondlife.com
   
2. Login with your SL name and password (look for the login link on the top right)
   
3. At the top-right of the screen, enter MISC-204 in the Quick Search box and press return
   
4. The MISC-204 issue will appear (it may take a minute - be patient)
   
5. On the lower-left, find the hypertext that says Vote for it and click it
   
6. That's it

/me points to her edited post above.

This eats up my time daily.

Source of frustration for me too. Bugged the vendor about it, and will hopefully see a result soon

That would be the aforementioned annoying JIRA bug. Login only seems to work from the front page.

Once you get logged in, it keeps you logged in for a while and can go directly to other issues. The trick is to look on the upper right of the page whenever you go to JIRA and make sure you're logged in. If you're not, go to the Home page (upper left), log in, then go back to the issue.

/me quotes WEB-47, the JIRA login bug...

It look like only landbarons and landbots (the ones who buy land in less than a second and put ban line all around your land) loose their money, so I don't vote

Maybe you should look harder, Mostly average reidents are losing land to the unethical land bots. /327/7a/176533/1.html

Maybe you should look harder, Mostly average reidents are losing land to the unethical land bots. /327/7a/176533/1.html

You sure about that, Kitty? I could see how it might hit landbots more often (a fact I can certainly live with) but I think this could hit anybody who's buying land.