Comments on: LL Boots Herald Writer From SL Mentors Group

By: Hibernian Yellowjacket

Hibernian Yellowjacket — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:22:02 +0000

I’ve never seen a SL Mentor that wasn’t a massive jewish faggot

By: Turn

Turn — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:13:10 +0000

Are you surprised? Honestly? All you ever do is bitch in the main SL blog.

By: Maria Leveaux

Maria Leveaux — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:50:30 +0000

I WAS a Member of the SL Mentors, Before resigning about Ten months or so ago (Philisophical differences i choose not to discuss here as they are not germain to the conversation). Last time I was in it LL Didn’t actually take an Active Role in Staffing of the mentors, but more or less Rubber Stamped the membership after it was selected by a Group of citizen organizers. Expulsions (Extremely rare occurances) were handled more or less the same way.

I think this was probably Just a bug.

Maria.

By: Melody Marlin

Melody Marlin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:04:07 +0000

Hmm I’m not sure it was the VAT dissent that caused a removal from the Mentor group. I’m still there despite the fact I’ve sent two scathing letters to LL via support ticket on how they implemented it – and voted with my pocketbook, following that up by selling all of my land and climbed down from a concierge level customer for nearly 3 years to no tier. I’ve also managed to post on the blog between the fanboy squad stating precisely why I am fed up with their policy of ‘do then tell’. LL got this one terribly wrong, but know what? They don’t care, the non-VAT’d members are rubbing their collective hands in glee as land value drops even more (following on from LL’s massive mainland sim sale to hmm.. gather short term liquidity at the cost of their customers value?) due to the exodus of tier paying EU members, and ‘someone’ is paying the tier so it means nothing to LL that they just alienated 50% of their user base.
The post above shows some of the reasons what they did was unlawful, but forgot to mention that all invoices that include VAT MUST clearly show their VAT registration number. None of my previous invoices til this last one had a VAT Reg. If they’ve been ‘paying it for us up til now’ as the second official blog post states, they’ve been doing so illegally. If they put their hands up and said ‘we messed up!’ and coupled that with a ‘you have three months til VAT arrives’, I think almost all of this would’ve been averted. Instead they implemented, then disclosed – and some big land holders went over limit on their credit cards when several sims got charged 17.5% (25% in Sweden!) more.

By: Nacon

Nacon — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:36:51 +0000

“Are European VAT dissenters being kicked from volunteer helper group?”

OH SUUUURRREEE…. Now just simply add that part in the header AFTER people are saying BOOO HOOOO!

Seriously… No one cares about you anymore. Get a life or two or start writing some GOOD USEFUL reports. Not some crap… haven’t you ever asked yourself “How do I read or eat crap?”.

By: Harleen Gretzky

Harleen Gretzky — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:23:45 +0000

Can we have some reference for this increase in November? First I have heard of something, everything before this has been sometime next year.

By: Pauleh Kamachi

Pauleh Kamachi — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:42:15 +0000

Agree with “boo fucking hoo” seriously whats with all the crap been posted on SLH recently? well most of the time

By: Chav Paderborn

Chav Paderborn — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:17:46 +0000

Didn’t I see that chair in the Sims?

By: chmarr walcott

chmarr walcott — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:36:17 +0000

with the current stuff about VAT LL have forgotten a few things.

1)- they MUST have a main base foe there company to be in the same country where they are taking the VAT employees of LL do not count they must have physical offices in which they must have over 10 people working there on a full paid salery.

2)- no other country can take VAT from another IE:- the usa cannot take VAT from the uk and vice versa.

3)- they MUST by EU/UK law show there VAT code on there website with a link to there EU AND UK offices.

4)- the VAT cannont be enforced untill the new TAX year in the EU which is april 1st 2008

5)- ant VAT taken must be made public knowlage and there account avalible to public veiwing which is under EU/UK laws.

on top of that LL cannot put VAT on top of prices as VAT is included in the prices IE:- £100 before VAT £117.50 AFTER VAT and since they are also using EU law the Currency must be under the country of which they are getting the VAT and NOT in US $.

if LL fail to do any of this LL can be open to an international tax evasion / fraud case.

think about it LL could be chased down by the EU / UK tax office and sued for everything.

LL are a 2 faced bunch of bastards first they penilise the residents by enforced USA law on euro residents and now there enforceing EU law on ppl who arent IN the EU i’ve seen proof of LL enforcing EU VAT laws on ppl in pakistan which is weird since pakistan is not in the EU.

LL have yet again screwed up in the legality department.

oh and on a side note…i did the beta of the age verification after it verified me 2 weeks ago…i got an email ..well when i say email i mean spam…lots n lots of spam from companys who got my details from the company collecting the age verification info.

i was even sent letters through my door sent all the way from the usa asking me to “vote for bush” and that my vote would be held untill i reached american soil.

By: lulzedtosleep

lulzedtosleep — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:08:33 +0000

“How come the input here is always so mean?”

I look at that situation as a mirror held up to the “journalists” here.

They are anything but nice themselves. Boohoo.