why have i not received the lindens i bought?

[Tara1965]

i bought $5 worth of lindens and i havent recoeved them yet but the $5.40 was recieved on your end. what happened?

 

[Amethyst Jetaime]

When you but Lindens you buy from other residents not LL. If you chose a Best Rate Buy (Limit Buy) that allows you to specify the amount of Linden dollars and the exchange rate you are willing to accept. LindeX automatically matches up buy and sell offers as they come in. If your offer is too high it could take hours, days, weeks, or months or even never, before you get any $L's.

You can cancel the Limit buy and the money will go to your US dollar balance. You can cancel it on the LindeX: Transaction History page on you web dashboard. Click Manage on the sidebar then choose LindeX Order History to get to that page. You can then use Market Buy to get Lindens almost instantly.

[Lindal Kidd]

Amethyst is correct about the difference between a Limit order and a Market order.  If you use the Market order box, your order will go through immediately.

However, I would also suggest that you not buy such small amounts.  Every $L purchase transaction incurs the same $.40 transaction fee.  The smaller the purchase, the larger percentage of the purchase that transaction fee represents.  For a $5.00 purchase, you are paying a transaction fee of almost 10%!

I never buy less than $20 worth of $L at a time, and generally more.