Should a reseller of freebies be AR´d if he´s unreasonable with prices?

Hello everyone,

this is my first post *waves*, unfortunately not about anything joyfull, my apoligize.
i happened to stumble into a shop where the first thing that caught my eye was a freebie skin which can be found in every freebieoutlet all over sl.
First thought: my own fault, why going here when it already said cheap skin, then again always curious o_o
Looking at the vendor i realized the big 999 L$ on it! doublechecked it and it´s not just on the texture. It´s really set to be sold for that price!
And thats not the only freebie there beeing sold, all priced above sanity and reason.
Curious again opening the profile of the owner: a selfproclaiming hippie! (at least a good laugh there).

Now how to behave? Should i file an AR or let that trap open for the clueless?

Thank you for your opinions!

Edit: I guess the last question is selfanswering but will LL act against that?
The creator of the skin, at least the version i have is newbie_template Linden, btw (laughs)

No, it's a free market system. People wise up faster than you think anyways. 99.9 percent of the people I know don't buy things right off the rip anyways. The seller will not sell much, and either lower prices or go out of business anyways. Also, overcharging is not against TOS, as I said, it's a free market system.

I don't see anything they can be AR'd for but as Johan points out, people wise up quicker than you might think. In SL terms L$999 is getting pricey so people are generally a bit more careful about purchases in that range.

The way the Lab has things set up, the only person that can take action against a freebie reseller is the maker of the item being resold. For anyone else, all we can do is warn people that the idiot is ripping people off by "selling them the Brooklyn Bridge".

What about if something was originally for sale and transferable for a L$ price by the creator and at a later date they started giving the item away as a freebie? In such a case, others might have paid for the item to resell and are unaware that the creator had later turned it into a feebie.

I also wonder whether if I had an item I'd created as a freebie for time, whether it's OK for me to start charging for it.

I have occasionally IM'd both the creator and the seller when I see this. Some people are actually unaware that there is anything wrong with selling freebies. (Of course, in the example you give, you can't IM the creator!)

Once I had an alt join a freebie reseller's group, intending to drop an IM into it every once in a while telling the members about the Free Dove, but the idiot let anyone send out notices so my alt just did that instead. *laughs* She sent out the notice in English and Google-translated Portuguese!
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pretty sure that being a societal leach and bottom feeder is not ARable... if it were concurrency would be much lower..

lol

S'truth.

as i understand it only the creator (or copyright/trademark/IP rights in general owner, which is not necessarily the creator always) has any standing to do anything anyway, so i agree with contact the creator, and in the case of a library item that is by proxy the Lindens in a lot of cases, though maybe not all. however it is possible that regardless of being technically within their rights to do so they will still throw a whuppin' on whoever it is.

thank you guys for your opinions.
let´s see if Mr./Mrs. newbie_template is willing to comunicate...

sorry XRay, what people price things as, even freebies, is nonnya.