JonathonAnthony

Just a correction: https://www.nar.realtor/about-nar#:~:text=About NAR&text=America's largest trade association%2C representing,and commercial real estate industries. To summarize if you're not interested in reading. The National Association of Realtors is a trade association where those in the property industry pay for membership and adhere to a code of conduct set forth by the association. So it's not quite "We are better than real estate agents", it's more "we're holding members accountable to this code of ethics." Realtor is a protected word in the US, as it's registered to the above organization. I doubt they will come after an SL group for using the term. I would think you'd need to be making substantially more than what's possible in SL for them to even care to sue. However, they are actively preventing the genericide of their brand. There's been rulings as recent as 2004 protecting the marks held by NAR. Source: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-92032360-CAN-33.pdf In Canada, Realtor is protected by CREA, The Canadian Real Estate Association: https://www.crea.ca/who-we-are/mission/ I would assume the two groups are related, but to operate in Canada, any business has to incorporate within Canada even if they have other incorporated businesses in other countries. Fun fact, that's why Blockbuster survived in Canada for a bit longer than the US, because it was literally its own company, and not subject to the closure of its US arm. It did also close, since their logistics and back end were really sourced from the US, though. Either way, so long as they're not using the trademarked logos, unless NAR or CREA are made aware, I doubt SL is even on their watch list.

Debauched Eden is hiring! We are an adult entertainment venue serving the kink community. We are seeking talented DJs, Hosts and Dancers to join our staff. We currently are seeking staff for events between 2:00 pm and 10:00pm SLT Details about each position can be found in our application here: Application Form If you want to come by the sim, you can find us here: Debauched Eden

Just a couple suggestions Shaun: - You might want to close entry to your staff group - You should really have a link to your club somewhere, as I couldn't find it in your profile, your DJ manager's profile, your club manager's profile, or in any of your DJ's profiles.

Debauched Eden is hiring! We are an adult entertainment venue serving the kink community. We are seeking talented DJs, Hosts and Dancers to join our staff. We currently are seeking staff for events between 2:00 pm and 10:00pm SLT Details about each position can be found in our application here: Application Form If you want to come by the sim, you can find us here: Debauched Eden

Debauched Eden is hiring! We are an adult entertainment venue serving the kink community. We are seeking talented DJs, Hosts and Dancers to join our staff. We currently are seeking staff for events between 2:00 pm and 10:00pm SLT Details can be found in our application here: Application Form If you want to come by the sim, you can find us here: Debauched Eden

Wide shack

Ugh, what morons. Thanks for letting me know Dilli, I'm listening to the town hall at the moment, but had expected it to be in the terms or the FAQ And Yea Fiona, only at Linden Labs. They also banned someone I know, and are refusing to say why, and telling him not to contact them further. ONLY @LL!

Nowhere in any place I've seen is the amount of the fee listed. Is it a percentage or set rate?

I've been in Second Life a long time now, and worked various clubs. If I had one suggestion to all of you posting jobs here, it's this: Put the shifts you're looking for in your post! I normally get jobs more by word of mouth than here mainly because digging through each listing only to discover your club is dead during the hours I can work is so pointless. Even some of the better postings here have the same failing, saying they need DJs but not when they need them.

Really glad I'm semi-retired from DJing if clubs like this are still being made. To the owners of this club, you really should seriously reconsider all of this. Even the most professional clubs I've worked never had such ridiculous requirements.

Your right boob could get a job as a metronome at least. Upside?

Actually you aren't screwed, you did receive an email with support documents before you were premium. Likely the issue you were having was more advanced than the basic help entails. I did contact SL at one point with a problem and they did resolve it, and I was not premium at that time. Basically premium entitles you to a higher level of support. Instead of generic email answers, they will do further research and resolution for items that go beyond basic failures on LL's basic services. So no, free members are not screwed out of basic support, they are screwed if their issue goes beyond that.

Actually... The real issue is that online sales in the US are, in fact, taxed. However, it was the responsibility of the purchaser to file the taxes. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/06/tech/web/internet-sales-tax To quote: Wait, aren't we required to pay sales tax already? In most states with sales taxes, people who buy goods online (or over the phone or through the mail) from another state are subject to a Use Tax. They are supposed to keep track of everything they purchase and pay sales taxes when they file their tax return. Many consumers either ignore or are not aware of these requirements, and states say it is difficult to enforce. So, whenever someone online, depending on state of course, purchased something and their state had a use tax, they were supposed to voluntarily pay the taxes. Now, physical retail outlets are sick of getting the shaft, and the US will soon try to nationalize some rules for the sales tax issue. Linden Labs never factored in any form of sales tax on its pricing... because there is no unified sales tax on anything. If they did, it would need to show as a line item on the receipt. Likely they did not charge at first (and others don't) because they are operating on the current US model for sales tax for internet goodds, IE that it's the user's responsibility to pay out that tax unless the home state for where the service is located is required to collect that tax. So yea, sucks that England already legislated taxation via internet, but that's the breaks. US is going to follow soon enough, but it will be interesting to see how as sales tax is state controlled...

Can I just say that I love your ad?!? I've been scanning these forums to prep for a run about the clubs for extra gigs... And it's been FRUSTRATING to not know the basics (when the DJ's needed, where the club is so I can go see if I would enjoy working there, et cetera) Club owners, please look at this ad and just copy its style... makes my life SO much easier. I'm sure other DJs/Hosts/Dancers would agree.

Here's a link out to the HTML version of the email. http://link.secondlife.com/YesConnect/HtmlMessagePreview?a=DiZJSeuA-xqz_RJtqjIaKzsK&msgVersion=web These are obviously NOT the starter homes that are offered now. The link used to lead to a style selector with a LOT more options (basic style of house, some additional options and arrangements), but now leads back to the Linden Homes site. However, the offer has expired: The promotion runs from 12:00 PM (PDT) April 19, 2012 and ends at 12:00 PM (PDT) May 18, 2012 and is subject to a limited availability of Starter Homes. After 15 days you decide whether you want to keep your home or not. If you do want to keep it you will need to pay for it pursuant to the applicable terms of service. If you don’t want to keep it or if you do nothing you won’t be billed for it. I assume that's why the link is now referring back. I wish I had said yes now, but I was already renting a wonderful 1/4 beach sim with my girl, and they did not list the pricing for these lots. They had a few styles (the images show what they offered), as well as just renting you an empty lot to rez a house in. I had thought the email was mass distributed...