Your assuming it all was brought to light. Once again, a one-sided story. Let’s face it LL owns SL, not Anshe. All I have seen in the recent rantings by Anshe is she no longer has the control she asssumed she had to begin with. I dont see that LL has taken anything away they just have rules ALL must adhere to, and that’s how it should be.

When you have built up a business from scratch and have it arbitrarily taken out from under you by Linden Lab, apparently in contravention of their own stated policy, *then* you can talk about `taking a chill-pill’. Sometimes bringing matters to light and making people aware is the only way to get something like that resolved.

Are you saying you think the socalled FIC concept should apply, Prok? Your saying one who pays more tier deserves more than others? Quite a turnaround from your old spiels.

Irregardless what you believe, ranting publically about a situation isn’t the best way to handle things. Taking a chill-pill always works out for the best.

Hell, I could offer amother opinion to this…. perhaps Anshe isnt no longer as successful as she wants, the recent rantings about the TH land, the buying up shoreline areas, the announcing a new currency….. perhaps its a way to try to transfer blame to LL when she folds rather than simply saying so….. See, there’s so many spins on this whole situation that its all guess work, no facts…. just a one sided rant.

“As for Anshe, my past dealing with Anshe have left me with the conclusion that either because English is not her first language, miscommunications occur, or that she feels she is infalible, which she obviously is not.”

“She also just opened up an office in China (I know because she offered me a job their before it opened to which I declined) which all those people with last name ACS work at. As a result, her overhead has dramatically increased and perhaps their truly was a billing issue regardless of what Anshe says.”

My impression of Anshe is that she’s hit the wall that many small business owners do – The business has grown beyond her ability to manage it. Like many in her situation, she has confused being caught up in a whirlwind with mastery over it.

As a business grows, it’s systems and procedures must grow and change as well, and to many a small business owner, this change is frightening as hell. Many business owners react the same way Anshe has – by trying to bluff their way past it. (“I must be infallible! I must know what I’m doing! After all haven’t I gotten this big!”) They don’t realize the problems they gloss over are potentially business killers. (For instance keeping track of which avatar has the money.)

“Given that the $50,000 was obtained by in fact cashing hard-earned Lindens out for lower than their value if a 30-day period were waited with different packets on the LindEx, what’s the big deal?”

For some reason I find the idea of someone dumping ~15 Million Lindens significantly below market value quite interesting. Wonder if it has any link to this?

http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=97111

She also just opened up an office in China (I know because she offered me a job their before it opened to which I declined) which all those people with last name ACS work at. As a result, her overhead has dramatically increased and perhaps their truly was a billing issue regardless of what Anshe says. Takes a lot of money to start up something like that. My question is, how long before the Chinese government shuts her down? Second Life is a challenge to their communist society which frowns upon free expression which SL promotes big time.

She is a good source of income for Linden Lab, so why would they suspend her without valid reason? Perhaps too, this proves Linden Lab does not make exceptions for those paying customers as so many have cried about them in the past. Just my 2 cents.

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Above in one of the comments someone mentioned LL’s best custumer, I doubt thats the case whoever said that. You gotta remember what Anshe is doing in their eye could most likely be divided into what 20 other people in game could be doing at a small scale. Anshe doesn’t produce demand for land, the demand is there she is merely taking advatage of the restrictive market that it is. LL is not making any more money of Anshe than if there was more competition what they would be collectivelly making.

This is LL internal policy, allow anything that is giving them an advantage or generating interest in a certain area of their venture, until they become a obstacle on their path or they think they can do better. That’s why they had to destroy GOM it was in their way of creating a Linden exchange market that they could manipulate their moeny and print money to sell and make it part of their revenue. Ofcourse as you should know that generates inflation, thats why over time we are seeing a steady decrease in the value of the Linden vs the USD. Deflation is also happening as more people join their game, only that the rate of new paying custumers isn’t enough to cover for all the moeny LL is printing and selling directly to their custumers. Gotta love the evil machinery.

To be sure, in the course of business, Anshe rents a store at one of my plazas, and I rent one of her lots in Dreamland; I’ve bought land from her, she’s bought land from me, but these are not significant transactions. I have no stake in her business whatsoever; I’ve rented and bought and sold to or from other land dealers in SL too. It’s a pretty small world in that regard.

What is your point, exactly? If I defend Anshe in a blog I must be “on her payroll” getting the equivalent of “Moscow gold”?

I defend a free market. Unfortunately, when you have a socialist/social-engineering overwhelming executive power like LL running our world and our “free market”, with no checks and balances, and actually no genuine free land market (the Lindens artificially keep the value at around 5/meter), the inevitable result is oligarchy — huge businesses that get their start from the fact that the state essentially subsidizes some part of their business, or they essentially get the raw materials for their business for a song (like in Russia).

I view this as an inevitable stage that must be passed through; trying to take something like communism (a closed game economy) and make it capitalism (an open virtual economy) has been compared by some to trying to trying to make an aquarium again out of fish soup — but…it must be attempted, and the process will be inevitably painful.

The only way for competition to increase, for oligarchy to be rolled back, for the land market to develop and become more free, for residents to be able to sell to each other, is to allow the price of land to float, and for the Lindens to stop glutting the land market.I’ve written about this extensively on my blog. So while that means high prices for the best land from Anshe, that’s what people value the land at. Some will pay it. Some won’t. There’s enough land alternatives in SL not to be dependent on Anshe. In fact, I’m one of them : )

The phenomenon of Anshe is a game/MMORPG/socialist phenom — it can ebb to the extent that the world becomes more real and more free.

Anshe may tell stories selectively, we can’t know. But what she says sounds plausible. Obviously her not getting $50,000 handled is a lot different than Toy’s $500 or less — and frankly, I see nothing wrong with that.

It’s funny how the FIC and the content fascists are always lecturing us about how it’s “normal” for companies to play favourites with some customers, to allow some loyal and good customers to be sounding board, to give some customers special perks, etc. Well, sure, why not? But then…don’t be surprised if some of that customer list isn’t just you and your friends in your sector, but includes others in other sectors.

It’s funny how everyone is slamming Anshe for allegedly not having her ducks lined up to have $5000 in the till — no one but me seems to ask the question of whether the issue might have been the Lindens not having money in their till somewhere along the line.

Their refusal to send the $50k to China is a mystery to me, but maybe they simply don’t want that kind of transaction — it’s of course at their discretion.

Is there more to thiss than meets the one-sided info already spoon-fed to people? Who knows and who actually cares.

I’d much rather deal and accept LL’s silence in this seems a bit more businesslike to me. Once again it simply who do I trust LL or someone screaming foul in the forums, easy answer for me.