Comments on: Mainland Sim Sells for $1800 in LL Auction http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/07/mainland_sim_se.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Agatha Palmerstone http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/07/mainland_sim_se.html/comment-page-1#comment-45934 Agatha Palmerstone Wed, 20 Jul 2005 15:19:18 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2302#comment-45934 The "minimum 1 sim" thing is ABSOLUTELY SCREWED UP. In the Real World, 90% of us don't have $1000 handy to buy land in SL. This means that the land game will be forcibly consolidated around those that do. Maybe, being San Francisco techies, the people at LL just don't understand this. They probably light their cigarettes with $100 bills. And the math behind the price minimum is simply wrong. Making what was the average into the minimum MUST raise the average. It's not possible not to. On the other hand, with the new "endless supply" deal, profit margins will drop. The money to be made on land will be made by monopoly pricing tactics, where those few who can afford to buy sims will agree tacitly to refrain from purchasing new land if land prices drop too low, and from reselling too low. Much like auto manufacturers in the US in the 50s-70s. Well, I'm working on a third-party way around this problem... involving re-auctioning of smaller land pieces on a website. The “minimum 1 sim” thing is ABSOLUTELY SCREWED UP.

In the Real World, 90% of us don’t have $1000 handy to buy land in SL.
This means that the land game will be forcibly consolidated around those that do. Maybe, being San Francisco techies, the people at LL just don’t understand this. They probably light their cigarettes with $100 bills.
And the math behind the price minimum is simply wrong. Making what was the average into the minimum MUST raise the average. It’s not possible not to.

On the other hand, with the new “endless supply” deal, profit margins will drop. The money to be made on land will be made by monopoly pricing tactics, where those few who can afford to buy sims will agree tacitly to refrain from purchasing new land if land prices drop too low, and from reselling too low. Much like auto manufacturers in the US in the 50s-70s.

Well, I’m working on a third-party way around this problem… involving re-auctioning of smaller land pieces on a website.

]]> By: blaze http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/07/mainland_sim_se.html/comment-page-1#comment-45933 blaze Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:02:26 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2302#comment-45933 Yeah, I don't get. How's he going to resell when mainland is so cheap? Yeah, I don’t get. How’s he going to resell when mainland is so cheap?

]]> By: Roberta Dalek http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/07/mainland_sim_se.html/comment-page-1#comment-45932 Roberta Dalek Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:56:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2302#comment-45932 I think the prices being paid for land are nutty. Surely any baron with any sense should be buying up all the cheap stuff out there not paying lots for new ones. I think the prices being paid for land are nutty. Surely any baron with any sense should be buying up all the cheap stuff out there not paying lots for new ones.

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