jalardonis Darkwatch

yeah... now i have whitney linden sending my business account notecards inworld threatening to shut my account down if i do not respond to emails from a company i've never heard of, little lone entered a user agreement with. LL seriously, if any of your employees are reading this and any of this is legit, you should try contacting me in the manner your website says you will... by sending me emails from LindenLab email addresses directly, not through 3rd party companies i've never heard of.

yeah, i hope you're right. in my experience if the US government is going to tax income, they're going to tax everything they can obtain records of, otherwise a lot of people could use it as a loophole for tax evasion, but i also think there is a limit of like 10K USD before you have to start reporting for taxes and i know I've never pulled nearly that much out. im no tax expert by any means, but its definitely concerning for someone in my position who's sales barely cover the rent to begin with. hopefully, as LittleMe Jewell said, the email i got was just a scam... if it wasn't, LL should seriously reconsider their system for distributing such notices.

not sure what the legality is here, but i just received an email from some company I've never heard of called docusign, claiming i owe taxes on revenue gained in Second Life, guess im going to ignore it and assume its a scam as it did not come directly from linden labs or any official government email address... actually came from a .net email address which screams fraud to me. i basically run my sim as a non-profit. most of the money i make in SL goes straight back into the ungodly amount of money LL charges for land, and sim upgrades to keep my visitors happy, if im going to start getting taxed on money that's not even going into my pocket, i think I'm done with second life and linden labs for good.

been thinking a lot lately... with the current pandemic in effect and a lot of people unable to work... while landlords in REAL LIFE are cutting or eliminating rent, knowing people cannot afford to pay for it at no fault of their own... why is LL still charging so much for virtual land? to rent a full sim in SL costs roughly $280(USD) per month.... that's as much as a cheap RL apartment. come on, LL, show your loyal customers some love, and please make sure its something that trickles down to actual renters, not just the land barons.