I’m glad the lab did too, about ruddy time you boys!

“Don’t worry; this billing failure will not prevent you from logging on with your Second Life account.”

Im laughing because it follows with this statement…

“We will simply try to bill your overdue balance again the next day. If we are unable to collect the amount due within seven (7) days, your account will be suspended pending payment for an additional thirty (30) days.”

Wouldn’t it have just been less painful for THEM to have just inquired first as to whether or not THEY /YOU wanted to remain a member? I mean they have to have some kind of database, search engine that spits out some kind of information regarding active and non-active accounts..come on.

Why don’t they just pull a Luke. Send out a mass mailing to all their customers. A survey of some kind asking how often do you log into second life or are you still or do you want to remain a resident of second life or something like why don’t you like us anymore kind of question.

I think it would save some time and money for many people involved in the transaction request. The bank or credit card company wouldn’t have to decline payment and the x-resident wouldn’t have to respond to their bank or what ever payment method they chose at the time that forget it thank you.

I mean isn’t it a good time now for Linden Labs to go out of their way now to just send out a mass email to all their clients / residents and straight out ask them to reply lol (ohhh big long list of emails to read thru hehe maybe not)but then again they could sort them as a yes or no to get a real figure as to home many people really are on Second life. I’d like to know I guess what the real numbers are.

hehe is it me or is there something really smelly there hehe. Oh boy they can be very entertaining.

she had given them all her information and was going to have a premium account. whoop -t- doo . Well she said the heck with it and gave up. I know she tried because we were on the phone trying to figure out what the heck happened and why she couldn’t get in.

Just yesterday I got an email from Second Life that i had been given 500L for refering my friend so and so. MY FRIEND!!! HAHA she never got in! and that was a year ago. Well she called yesterday to tell me that the swines tried to bill her credit card for her membership. Hello!!! What membership she never got in and her account has been inactive for a year!

Id like to say I find this very odd but I can’t. nothing surprises me anymore with them. They couldn’t get her cash lol because she closed the credit card anyway. How many other people are they going after that haven’t been on for over a year? But then again she wasn’t even ever able to ever log in.

I know things are tuff over there in the land of Linden but this is crossing the line. Thanks for the 500L even though its a little late. I’d like to know just how many people they are trying to bill that haven’t been on and that don’t look at their bills often. Bunch of crooks. And the service stinks.

Hey also someone mentioned in a reply about the Xstreet purchase and how LL could use it as a way to distribute goods to other grids. I had the same thoughts. It could just possibly be the way to distribute goods to other grids.

I don’t know what this year holds for me and sl but it isn’t looking to good right now and im sure others feel the same.
they Beta get going or I’m going to find another playground.

I worked for companies that were on the cutting edge of technology yesterday lol and they didn’t take this long to launch a decent product. This is getting a bit humiliating I would say to those who work there. Good luck to them lol.

Why don’t they go thru all the accounts and see who hasn’t logged in in over a year and send a sweet message asking them why? Instead of billing them first. It could be an easy task for one of their programmers to do.

Why the heck would they try and bill someone who never even made it in? Seems to be a bit of a scam to me. Why don’t they just check the status of the account before billing. Send a friendly reminder asking something like do you still want to be a member or not lol before we bill you. Billing people is just wrong to me because so many people could possibly miss it and LL would get the cash. Sounds like a Luke (you know who lol) email to me asking if they don’t replay to this email he gets to keep their Lindens.

Dear “My friends avatar name,”

This email is notification that we were unable to bill your Second Life account on January 22, 2009. Please review your Second Life membership and billing information, and make sure everything is up-to-date. Some of the more common mistakes are:

* Your credit card may have been declined for insufficient funds.
* Your credit card may be expired.
* You may have entered an incorrect expiration date for your credit card.
* Your billing address may not match the address on your credit card.

Additionally, your bank or credit card company may have flagged the charges for review. If none of the above are true and you suspect this to be the case, please contact them to authorize the charges from Linden Lab.

If you are using Paypal, check your Paypal account’s verification and backing. Your Paypal account must be verified and backed by a funding source other than a credit card. (We are unable to accept Paypal accounts backed by credit cards.) Make sure the Merchant Agreement with Linden Lab is current, and make sure you haven’t exceeded your Paypal transfer limits.

If everything looks correct, you may want to contact your credit card issuer (or Paypal as appropriate) to identify the problem.

Don’t worry; this billing failure will not prevent you from logging on with your Second Life account. We will simply try to bill your overdue balance again the next day. If we are unable to collect the amount due within seven (7) days, your account will be suspended pending payment for an additional thirty (30) days. During that time, you will not be able to log in to Second Life. Alt accounts may be placed into administrative hold and you may be logged out of active sessions during this time as well. Failure to resolve this billing issue by the end of the probation period may result in the cancellation of your account. If you have verified the accuracy of your billing information, and are not aware of other outstanding issues that would prevent billing, please contact us through the support portal (https://secondlife.com/support ) as soon as possible.

To review or modify your account details, or to change or cancel your Second Life membership, visit https://secondlife.com/account.

Best Wishes,

Linden Lab and the Second Life Team
http://www.secondlife.com
Linden Lab
945 Battery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111

Imagine you have created a new virtual world and want to encourage commerce (which is also the same as saying “want to make a profit yourself”). What if you could have all the financial transactions handled by a third-party, to whom you pay a percentage on transactions. That would have to be worth thinking about.

Banking is simply a business like any other. As more virtual worlds appear, they all need to consider how to handle commercial exchange. Rather than have idiosyncratic currencies, imagine having a single currency. That’s a nice thing. You might not call it the Linden but whatever it is called, I’d sure like to be the one making it all happen and taking 0.1% of all transactions.

And if I’d like that, you can bet Linden Lab would too.

The XStreet Exchange ehy bought well will be their avenue to distribute goods to those cross grids and control the currency. The OnRez issue well that to me says all their years of copying their customers content has paid off. They will now be able to sell that along with their individual grids to private institutions like they wanted to and isolate them for all purposes needed in a commercial or educational field. It is key for privacy and protection. i see it.

so yes everyone we were the lab rats for their beta worlds with out reward. Don’t expect a thank you it isn’t in the paper work. Not needed. We were the experiment and your don’t with your job. they will deploy the third execution of their business plan as well not so scheduled but it came about.

I wish them well i hope we can all cross grid and it is a success and that we can all use the newly aquired exchange to aquire new goods for which we will need if we r not thrifty as builders.

If you can afford to pick up on the IPO if that is to happen lol which don’t be to surprised. It just may be a real thing. Dreams do come true lol for those who live in the real world.

All i can say is that who ever participated these past few years in this phase of second life and help develop so much to their content. I wish you well. Cool Huh!?? Great??? Huh!!

Nice people they r huh?
well that’s business folks. Be sure to invest its the future!!!!

Oh keep your eyes out for your products you may just find them in another world but not your own!

Sophia~

The cost of doing business I guess~ I had a a vision lol…but I wont tell anyone just in case~Thanks Mr.M U did a great job.
Lets hope the future grids can remain stable and secure. I hope so. Great Idea i know takes time but they should have kept it free. As far as I’m concerned I didn’t pay for them to flee.

sophia~

and Torley your the best out of the lot of them!!!! Never commented on you but your the best!Hope you move on to better and greater things!

http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=303396&page=1&pp=30&highlight=teen

The SL that we all know and love – that perverse little place where we can all go do discard our real life selves and be what we’re not, that cool place where we could let our creativity run wild will soon be under the control of the yuppy skumwads over on Wall Street. Censored by the Hitler-esque tactics of burning away blog posts and threatening users with the ban hammer for speaking their minds and expressing themselves.

All those hours we all spent building and creating, making their world for them out of our own pocketbooks for what? So they can sell it off meanwhile Mark Klingon or whatever the fuck his name is will make a fortune off OUR HARD WORK AND CREATIVITY!

FUCK YOU LINDEN LABS! You can take your crumbling little world that’s busting at the seems with FUCKING BOTS and MINDLESS NOOBS with IQs less then that of a rat. You can take your private little monopoly of content distributors, AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR FUGLY LITTLE PRIM BUTTS!