General Discussion

[Phil Deakins Member]

The point about the explosives person is that, because of his mistake, he would be soooo more careful in the future. The OP made a mistake that cost her. Fortunately, she got the land back. In the future she will be sooo much more careful when setting land for sale, so it was a very valuable experience, which is the point I made.

Incidentally, the explosives person analogy is spot on for this point.

[Mikey Hax]

maybe a surgeon who has just killed the one... if he gets to two then i'd not be convinced he learned enough by the first one!

[Pussycat Catnap Member]

To OP:

You'll find that most of the successful long term land barons both use bots, -AND- deal with people who make mistakes like you did in a graceful manner.

They're not out to gip people out of their land, they're out to make sure that they get the lots that are unwanted so they can resell them. Many of them will come in, rejoin broken up lots, cut to good sizes, and relist. Not all of course. Some will make micros or rez griefing spam and jack up prices to extort neighbors... but the long term holders in the market stay there by adopting tactics that work to everyone's interests.

Without land bots, a lot more of us would be stuck abandoning land. That's not as bad for the grid as it used to be, as abandoned land goes back up for sale now - but it would mean getting -nothing- for land you want to leave.

Land bots have long been the 'way out' for anyone stuck with land they don't want. And quite a few land merchants will hold some lots in reserve until the conditions on the sim are viable for resale - something us 'regular folks' have a lot more trouble doing when we don't have tier that amounts to dozens of sims...

They can be annoying when a mistake like this happens, but 9 times out of 10, you'll be glad there was a land bot around when you needed one.

Remember the name of the bot's owner, since he was willing to deal with you and give you the lot back. When it comes time to really move someday, or if a friend is looking somewhere - recommend that person's offerings. Best to keep the 'good' merchants in business.

[Planta Etzel]

Exactly,just yesterday in my map there were me and my friend,and I was setting the land for her to buy it free,but somehow 0L didnt work so I set it to 100L and it worked.At the moment it got for sale a land bot emiadeiatly appeared from nowhere and I got payed 100L...This is spam.Until yesterday I had it for sale 5000L only with more than 900prims and beside linden road(good place),so I guess the major avatar kept its bot alert to instantly buy the land when it was under some price.This is stealing .I want my land back to give it to my bestfriend so we can live in SL side by side.

[16]

send a IM to the bot explaining what happen and could the owner please set the land to sell back to u

also check the bots profile. most reputable landbot owners will have a traceback on the profile to their inworld business. send an IM to the business owner as well

in the IM just be matter-of-fact. accusations of theft doesnt go down well with them after the 60 millionth screaming IM

bc lots of people dump their land to the bots in this way. the bot owner has no way to tell the difference between them ppl and u at point of sale. is very few landbot operators in sl now, not like in olden days. the ones who have survived have done so bc they are professionals

[Polenth Yue Member]

As some random advice: If you're giving land to a friend, and you can't figure out how to sell to a single avatar, set the price really high. Give your friend the money back after they buy it (or give them the money so they can buy it). It saves a lot of angst and having to contact land bot owners.

(Selling to a single avatar is better, but some time back I was selling land to a friend for a group, and they couldn't buy for group when it was set to sale for them. But no land bot was going to pay L10,000 for an 1024.)

[Losty Lighthouse]

 I just bought land at Featherman (112,250,65) Naken Landing. All transactions are in my file. When set the land to sell to have my group buy it he bought it from under me. I had set the land to $1. A bot by the name of LordBaron Munster stole the land from under me within 30sec.

How is this fair?

And yet LL tells me that they can't do anything about it. I just lost $65USD because of this. These bots are stealing! 

[Losty Lighthouse]

The landbot has his groups hidden.

[Marigold Devin]

Welcome to Second Life Forums, Losty

Methinks you must be having a bad week generally Of all the landbots to lose your land to, it was one owned by the most horrible landbot owner in SL.

You are right. It is not fair. Most of the landbot owners will refund because they allow for human error.

However, LL have enough measures in place already, and advise people to sell to a specific other person, if you look at the official Knowledge Base about land selling/purchasing. 

I really feel for you; it is a lot of money to lose, and whether LL do nothing now or not, I would still submit an abuse report inworld to log a complaint against this particular land bot owner.  

[Alicia Sautereau]

Why sell it to the group when you can just deed it??

Landbots are your best friends as your anti "stuck with land that no one wants", as stated earlier
Sucks to lose land, made a mistake once aswell with a 1024 cause i didn`t do my homework, but if you don`t readup befor playing with things that can cost you money...