It IS an excellent corollary to SL though. Just like the internet before, the money people and the existing businesses “don’t get it”. The internet is interactive and it took business half a decade to realize that people aren’t blankly staring at the monitor. I suspect it’ll be a few years more before they understand that SL is playtime for 90% of the people on it, and for most people, play doesn’t mean prostrating yourself in front of a gigantic shoe on the Nike sim just because the investors demand it.

And there’s nothing wrong with investing on a hot tip you don’t know that much about, or a possible scheme that has a track record but no good information. Just so long as people are aware of the risks and have the information available as soon as possible.

I kept alot of LINDENS in GINKO over the last year and was lucky enough to be able to draw my lindens out of GINKO via PAYPAL when the LIMITS on withdraw kicked in.

What we are seeing here with this Bank in the Game is nearly identical to the Bank Collapse during the Great Depression in the US.

I purchased something from a guy in Japan on his web site. It seemed more professional than most of the sites out there. Internet shopping was a bit new to me at the time so having my money wired to the guy’s account didn’t ring any alarms for me (dumb thing to do when looking at that now, I know!)

So a month passed after the promised delivery time and still nothing. I called the receiving bank and it was already too late to get a refund from them and I’d have to take it up with the guy in question…who lives in Japan.

What to do?? Well, I looked up his web site on one of the registry sites and got his home address, phone number, personal email and real name.

I sent him an email addressing him by name and saying if I didn’t have my money returned to me or the product delivered in a week then I’d not only give him a call to chat with him, but I’d also provide his info to anyone and everyone on any message board that had to do with what he was selling (it was airsoft guns if I remember correctly). I’d also consider visiting him in Japan…I’ve always wanted to go anyway!

Sure enough one week passed and I got my money sent back to my account. It was a total bluff on my part but a little bit of harassment can go a long way!

Just thought that was appropriate to share in this situation…

Best way to make more than you put into it is to do custom work for people you know and let word of mouth do your advertising for you. You won’t get rich and you won’t be able to quit your job but you won’t lose anything either.

All this assumes you have an actual skill like building, textures, animations, or scripting. If not you’re pretty much SOL as far as making any spacebux.

“Cohort of mine tried to withdraw 27000 to purchase some land. Surprise, they wouldn’t let her. They said the most she could take out was 5K but she couldn’t even get that.

Anyone who puts money into a play bank with nothing securing it will be very lucky to get money out again. Might as well deposit your cash with Lenny the Hook in the alley off 4th and main for all you’ll see of it again.”

I was offerd to invest 100.000 L$ at 2% intrrest a week = 104% = thay pay me 104.000 L$
over 1 yare LOL! = thay pay me 204.000 L$ in 2008,,, Business dont work like that,, not even RL.If all this ppl say are true and safe for you ( as thay do say) i be a multibilloner in no time IMAOO!!
A good advice : If somting seam to good to be true,, dont do it.You will loose.

I’ll be happily opening accounts with reasonable 5% returns for all those poor suffering Ginko customers, starting today! Remember when you want safe, secure banking with a name you can trust think ‘da hook’!

That’s ‘da hook’ in the alley off forth and main!

Anyone who puts money into a play bank with nothing securing it will be very lucky to get money out again. Might as well deposit your cash with Lenny the Hook in the alley off 4th and main for all you’ll see of it again.