Comments on: Linden Lab Kicks Anshe in Arrears http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/04/linden_lab_kick.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Bob the Tomato http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/04/linden_lab_kick.html/comment-page-1#comment-42557 Bob the Tomato Sat, 01 Apr 2006 10:53:07 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2004#comment-42557 Just goes to show... when so much power and influence is wielded by one individual, it's a dangerous thing. So much for launching her own currency with a 'guarantee'... if she can't even keep her affairs in good enough order to make sure that payments are in the right place at the right time, then it doesn't give much confidence in the 'business' as a whole. No doubt there are limits as to how much 'overdrawn' your account can be (not that you should be allowed any overdraft, but that's another story) and it was exceeeded. Out of 170,000 players, you can't expect one to get special treatment or special dispensation. After all, without all the bells and whistles of being a 'big customer' what are you? Nothing more than one avatar, one human, playing Second Life. My guess is if this really truthfully was a big LL mistake, now that the story has been running for about 10 hours if not more, someone somewhere would have contacted a Big Linden to get the problem solved immediately, because obviously such a mistake would be bad press for them as to 'how badly they treat their biggest customer'. The fact it hasn't, and that several Lindens have responded in the thread(s) on the forums but not promised to look into it (any more than the standard response of email billing) tends to make me think that still there is more to it than is being let on. Perhaps there is a history of overdrawn and non-payments that aren't being divulged, and eventually LL decided enough was enough, and that they had to take action regardless of how badly Anshe would react. Either way, there is a lot more to the story than we will ever know, because of LL's "privacy policy". So.... Anshe.... do you like corn? Bob Just goes to show… when so much power and influence is wielded by one individual, it’s a dangerous thing.

So much for launching her own currency with a ‘guarantee’… if she can’t even keep her affairs in good enough order to make sure that payments are in the right place at the right time, then it doesn’t give much confidence in the ‘business’ as a whole.

No doubt there are limits as to how much ‘overdrawn’ your account can be (not that you should be allowed any overdraft, but that’s another story) and it was exceeeded.

Out of 170,000 players, you can’t expect one to get special treatment or special dispensation. After all, without all the bells and whistles of being a ‘big customer’ what are you? Nothing more than one avatar, one human, playing Second Life.

My guess is if this really truthfully was a big LL mistake, now that the story has been running for about 10 hours if not more, someone somewhere would have contacted a Big Linden to get the problem solved immediately, because obviously such a mistake would be bad press for them as to ‘how badly they treat their biggest customer’. The fact it hasn’t, and that several Lindens have responded in the thread(s) on the forums but not promised to look into it (any more than the standard response of email billing) tends to make me think that still there is more to it than is being let on.

Perhaps there is a history of overdrawn and non-payments that aren’t being divulged, and eventually LL decided enough was enough, and that they had to take action regardless of how badly Anshe would react.

Either way, there is a lot more to the story than we will ever know, because of LL’s “privacy policy”.

So…. Anshe…. do you like corn?

Bob

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