Will Anche Chung dominate the World

She may be selling off some land at very attractive prices, because she feels land ownings are going to be less profitable in the coming year. So it may not be at all unusual that she is suddenly offering some attractive deals to buyers.

You could either grab it now, or wait a few months to see if land prices from other buyers eventually tumble as well.

Dominate the world? How about being fair to people who rent or buy from them. They advertise land on their website for one price then tell you it's more when you try to buy it. When you complain, they say, "That's the old price on the website. We need to change it." The thing is this "old price" has been there a long time.

Or having their own rate for Lindens which as you would guess is a lot higher when you have to pay them. Whereas in Lindens, you buy $40 US worth, when you need to pay them those same $40 they tell you its $38 worth and not the $40, that these are their rates. So you wind up paying more then you should because of their rates.

You won't dominate using these type of tactics. Then again, many people here already know all about what goes on with them and avoid them like the plague. I know I do.

It's simple. You just pay off old investors with the money from new investors and continue until you have enough in the "bank" to bail with everyone's cash.

Way back when she started dealing in virtual real estate, I commented in the old General Forum that dealing in intangible virtual land wasn't a very good idea. It was my opinion then and now that if Linden Lab ever went under, she was gonna fall on her ass hard financially. I'm surprised that she is still doing well, even with the chronically buggy state of SL the last couple of years. I have to admit that Anshe has lasted a lot longer that I expected.

I have no real problems with Anshe Chung's business model. Virtual land is after all an intangible commodity; all the time there is a demand for it she should do okay unless she makes any bad mistakes. Ditto Second Life.

On that point (Second Life) and on from the commercial success of Bloomsbury the publisher (Harry Potter) I see in today’s London Times a new publishing deal for a novel has been negotiated via Second Life, although its not Harry Potter who knows where the next blockbuster is coming from. I see all sorts of media possibilities enabled via SL as technology improves, so on a business note I think SL has achieved what they call critical mass. All the time the end user has that spare $20/40 odd dollars a month to spend on entertainment I think there is a market for virtual services

Thanks for the tip off re Dreamland Stock Exchange; I will look into it when I have the time although I am far more cautious about user enabled financial services

Whic I like to think my humor helps contribute to....

What makes you think LL will go under......i could see the company being sold but that's about it. Remember there are so many blue chip companies present on SL, I wonder how their legal teams would react if their assets disappeared overnight!

Their reaction would be irrelevant, unless they were prepared to stump up the cash required to prevent the company being declared bankrupt...which takes us full circle back to your vision of the company being sold.

I never said SL would go under. I specifically said IF SL went under. I made my original comments 3 years ago. In 2004, SL wasn't being courted by corporate types and much smaller. I could be wrong, but from what I've read over the years, SL is still running in the red financially. Very few of us have a clue to whats going on inside the management of Linden Research, and those that do aren't talking about it. Put simply, no one (who isn't an insider) really knows how long SL will be around.

Probably Chung bought all Country names way before the Austria sims were introduced. Austria is not the only one - there is Rhodos, Mallorca and many more RL places in Chung's "Dreamland". But even of she did buy the name AFTERwards, meaning taking it away from the Austrian government, there is still nothing you can do about it. SL is not the world wide web. It's a privately owned company. There are no rules about domain names, and there are no "top level domains". LL can decide to give sim names to anyone they wish. Maybe Chung is willing to sell the name, if this is possible. Did u ask about it?

Just set your keyboard to English and use the numpad.

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couldn't resist a HP reference.