This is my annoucement posted on WSE for LLRS. I will blog more about this later....I have work to do....Hostel Official Date Pushed Back
We were putting final touches on Hostel to find that a prefab building we purchased from Poppet McGimsie of Wunderbar had huge issues. She agreed to make repairs to the building and still left very major flaws in the building rendering it useless. Upon asking for our L$1250 back, she refused, told that was the breaks of SL, and muted me.
I also purchased a building from RJ Kikuchiyo on SL Exchange to find that the building was grossly misrepresented in the picture and paid L$5000 for 1/3rd of what was in the picture. He would not own up to the misrepresentation but refunded me half the money back.
This loss of funds is minute but we lost over 20 buildings in the city area putting us back at the drawing board of finding other prefabs or doing the building ourselves. I have filed AR and reports with SLBB though from personal experience, neither will do much.
Something has to be done in SL to stop the swindling.......
Nevertheless, we are pushing the OFFICIAL date back to next Saturday. The sim is still open for viewing and is searchable though. Thanks again for your support.
2 comments:
On the same note, I was the owner of two parcels in Heathrow and sent various IMs to the sim owner to discuss a minor matter about tier payments just before tier was due. As I waited for his answer before paying tier (mentionning it in my *numerous* IMs), and since he just never cared to answer, I got late of some days and... well... was expelled! According to the sim owner, he 'never got my IMs' and in the meantime conveniently sold my parcels to another person who had already shown interest for them. Obviously, he found out it was more profitable for him to sell them *himself*.
Second Life is full of those people, and all I can suggest is to limit your business partnerships to people you really know well. It's just way too easy to be a jerk when you wear the mask of an avatar.
Valerian Dryke
I totally agree. Some people in SL have no integrity. I had another issue similar happen but this is how it went:
I purchase a brownstone on SLX and there were some issues with the rezzer and it kept deleting pieces of the building. I IMed the seller and she was offline. I IMed her again to let her know I purchased it again just to see if it would work and if she would refund my second purchase. Needless to say, the problem happened again.
As soon as she logged on, she IMed me, fixed the building, sent me a new one and refunded my second purchase. Awesome customer service. How hard was that? It wasn't hard at all. Just shows that some people value their customers and others just take your money.
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