This land sale seems too good to be true

[Kayaker Magic]

  In preparation for putting my SIM up for sale, I combined all the parcels into one, marked it for sale, including the prims, and set the price to a HUGE VALUE. I chose the value to prevent someone from purchasing the parcel, since it was the SIM I wanted to sell. In fact, I set the parcel price to the ammount I hoped to get for selling the whole SIM.

  Then within a day, someone purchased the parcel for that HUGE sum! Well, that's great and if she wants the SIM as well, I'll sell that to her for L$1 more since I already got the price I wanted. I wish I had a fiew minutes of warning to remove a few personal prims before they were all aquired.

  But this whole transaction is bothering me. Why would someone pay so much just for a parcel? This person has not tried to contact me.  I am still the owner of the SIM and the estate manager. I checked her profile and she has been a resident for years, implying some experience here. So I'm wondering if this sale is too good to be true...

 

[Theresa Tennyson]

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Kayaker Magic wrote:

  In preparation for putting my SIM up for sale, I combined all the parcels into one, marked it for sale, including the prims, and set the price to a HUGE VALUE. I chose the value to prevent someone from purchasing the parcel, since it was the SIM I wanted to sell. In fact, I set the parcel price to the ammount I hoped to get for selling the whole SIM.

  Then within a day, someone purchased the parcel for that HUGE sum! Well, that's great and if she wants the SIM as well, I'll sell that to her for L$1 more since I already got the price I wanted. I wish I had a fiew minutes of warning to remove a few personal prims before they were all aquired.

  But this whole transaction is bothering me. Why would someone pay so much just for a parcel? This person has not tried to contact me.  I am still the owner of the SIM and the estate manager. I checked her profile and she has been a resident for years, implying some experience here. So I'm wondering if this sale is too good to be true...

 

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They might have THOUGH they were buying the sim, in case the sale would be pretty straightforward. However, did you have the sale price and have a "weekly" price set to 0? If that was the case they might have thought they were buying the parcel for a one-time fee and didn't have to pay rent after that. You should be prepared to refund their money if that was the case.

In the future you should limit who a parcel can be bought by if you don't actually want the parcel to change hands unexpectedly.