FailedScience

Speaking as a person who buys and sells land on secondlife for years. The problem is the "land barons" want real prices for land, if we we're to control how much u can sell a plot for it would limit it, say making categorys with set price limits and ranges, on the TG this is how we kept the market flowing. Atleast until 2008 when all us land barons left the grid

Clearly you would vary between those price ranges, if a plot was hill/grass youd sell for 1.75 - 1.85 and so on and so forth. there is no reason a plot the size of 512sqm should cost more then 5120L$ its insanity.

We created a group "Land Baron Boycott For Reasonable $" open enrollment this is for the boycotting of landbarons, who will no longer be getting our money. Cut them off where it counts they will have to fix their prices.

https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Mainland/Mainland-Land-Prices-Are-Rediuclous/td-p/3091623

https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Mainland/Mainland-Land-Prices-Are-Rediuclous/td-p/3091623

https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Mainland/Mainland-Land-Prices-Are-Rediuclous/td-p/3091623

https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Mainland/Mainland-Land-Prices-Are-Rediuclous/td-p/3091623

So right now, there is roughly 65% of all sims that are unowned, the greater majority being land for sale. These plots sit unused and mostly empty for no reason other then the fact someone wants to get a rediculous price for them. It would seem the land barons on secondlife have forgotten how an economy works, supply and demand. Right now there is a massive supply with very little demand, holding a plot that you are trying to sell at 10L$m2 for 6 months isn't a smart choice. Back in the day land sales were as follows.... 1.0L$ ---> LLS base price for all land sales 1.5L$--> Mountain land 2.0L$--->Grass 3.0L$-->Waterfront 4.0L$ -->Roadside 10L$ --> City (2.0 prim bonus) These were widely accepted and kept the market moving now it has gotten stationary causing people to loose money, and also causing alot of would be players to avoid playing due to high prices. It isnt a hard concept no one wants to pay 50,000L$ for a 512sqm plot that gives you 175 prims. Its not hard to understand why these barons are loosing money, they think way too long term. If you quick flip you get the land trading hands more often, more land being set for sale, more people requesting abandoned land be set for sale. You rejuvinate the market, by setting these rediculous prices you are being absolutely stupid. Please adopt the right prices for the plots that you have, take the loss that you have given and lets rejuvinate the grid. Its not all about your pocket your the idiot who bought a bunch of land and jacked the prices up not us. SIDE NOTE: Auction prices are getting rediculous I lost a 512 at 10.0L$m2 and it was a terrible plot on a mountain side. HOW DID IT GO FOR UPWARDS OF 10L$m2. I set my bid price at that because I figured no one would want it for that high because its absolutely useless to everyone. Like seriously land barons get your act together. Im calling for a complete boycott of buying land until these prices has been met anyone who is joining please post it here. Its time to do something about our secondlife before it dies because people are greedy. I litterally just got done talking to a land baron who said they hold empty plots sometimes as long as 4 years, what is the point of this? care to explain? he told me he prices them at what he thinks they are worth. SO these are random numbers they put in. OUTRAGEOUS, lets get a set of standards and get the economy rolling again. You idiots.