JuliVreese

Thank you for the reply. I have noticed that some general and safe websites have blocked me pointing out that Im from a VPN provider. I don't see why LL can't do the same. *sighs*

Suddenly I cannot log into Second Life using NordVpn. Not from Mexico nor anywhere in USA. If I turn off VPN then I log in easily in all places. I use Firestorm so when I saw this issue I went and downloaded Catznip latest version, and it's the exact same thing no matter where I try. With VPN turned on i get this notice: "Login failed. Despite our best efforts, something unexpected has gone wrong. Please check https://status.secondlife......... to see if there is a known problem with the service. If you continue to experience problems please check your network and firewall setup." I use VPN with no issues all the time and in other games and suddenly I'm blocked from SL? I really hope to know why since I like dance and play in clubs and have learned that not all DJs are trustworthy with our IP addresses. I've heard them make remarks to unsuspecting guests about certain weather conditions going on they are. That was surprising. So I found out they have knowledge of our IPs. (This is not SL's fault, of course). Some DJs are also players in these clubs and like to pick up girls. That's fine. But I've had a DJ while performing on stage IM me and ask me where I'm from. I answer generically like saying, "USA," and I get asked for more specifics -- being chatty, ya know. But I know he had my IP Address the moment I landed in the club. I don't know why he felt he needed more. I know posters to these forums like to pooh-pooh such concerns about our IP addresses but please save it for some other place and don't fill up the white spaces here with it. This issue simply makes me uncomfortable. Any real help? Thanks so much. Edit for additional info >> I've tried this on 2 different computers using Mac and Windows systems with the same VPN. Same issues. I sense that LL is blocking VPNs now.

Absolutely awesome answers here. Thank you very much, this was the kind of substance I was hoping for. A must read for everyone. :)

Is there a new algorithm in Firestorm calculating land impacts? I built a little cottage in SL with standard prims and applied my own textures, and it's only 47 LI. I can then highlight it all and take into inventory as a linked set, and then pull it back out again and and it's still 47 prims, weighted at 47 LI. Of course. BUT, if I highlight it all and link it as single object then the land impact jumps 111. This was stunning to me. There is no mesh involved here -- nothing going on but what SL provides ingame by use of the Build tab. Plus, my own uploaded textures. The house is small and can fit on 1024 sm, there are no mega prims going on, or anything weird. This make no sense? Has it always been like this? I relogged and went back and pulled it and it's still LI 47, but when I pull out the saved object it's LI 111. I can unlink that and it drops to 47. These are the SAME prims in either way case, and no mesh involved at all. What's the deal here? I don't use Blender and don't want to try to climb that mountain just to address this issue. Has simple ingame building gone awry? I can sell this cottage legitimately as 47 LI. But I can't sell it as a linked object with that same claim. How does linking it as an object raise LI almost 300%???

Thank you for that. I wish to report that my contact with the creator, the owner of the Main Store, has succeeded and she spoke with me and explained what others here had already suggested, that the seller has been gone for well over a year, her vendors don't work, and yet she still pays land rent where her store sits. So, others may too fall susceptible. No one can know what may have happened there, and I feel bad about that, and hope the seller is alright. I was never blaming anyone for this, but the systems I didn't yet understand. I see now that SL is much like RL in that markets are susceptible to all kinds of things. I have been touched by the help I've gotten here. One person sent me a personal IM and gave me advice on hair and even gave me an unsolicited gift of Lindens to move forward. That was amazing to me and I thank her again here her kindness and help. And then too, the owner of the main store met with me just now, and while I assured her she was not responsible for my error nor of the mysteries at the abandoned shop, and as I was about to go ahead and buy that hair I'd been wanting from her store, she gifted it to me. She did not have to do that. Nor did she even know I had been speaking of this stuff here on this Forum. So I want to report that here, and that her store is indeed alive and responsive. I will be returning. She said it was her reward my kind attitude and understanding of my problems. That was super nice of her. So, I'm thanking her here again, too. I feel fortunate to have learned and been helped. Onward now.. *waves*

Thanks for the additional thoughts and perspectives. It's been enlightening. It begins to seem possible in this game to shop at a store that is all but abandoned an/or non-responsive, and to pay vendors where no products will be delivered and owners will not respond ? That's really kind of amazing. But, oh well. I understand it's only it's only a few lindens, but it's not about that, but rather trying to understand how things work. I actually tried on a Demo at the mainstore but made the purchase at the small affiliate because it was some lindens less. I'll just mark that up to getting an education, I guess.. I've contacted someone at the main store and well wait on an answer. I liked that particular hair, darnnit .

Thanks for the replies. I did think to go to the creator yesterday and found her name on a Demo, but her profile said, "Bye bye SL." So, I respected that and did not contact her, and that is why I came to the Forums for maybe some broad answers to a broad question. I was frustrated as a noob of 6 days waiting 4 days for something, a reply, a deliver or anything. I understand more today, and thank you all. I've renewed my attempts and found how to contact the seller and so I've dutifully sent my info on. Thanks again for the help here. Just a bunch of little twists of fate going on. I can go with that. :)

I'm rather shocked to see the answers to my simple questions are NO, there is no other recourse? And YES, this is how the game is played. So, a newbie of 6 days spending limited Lindens to create an avatar must wait 3 or 4 or 5 days to receive an item purchased. That is hard to believe. Is that really true? Can no one on this Forum point me to where I can better seek answers to simple basic questions? Knowledge is better than darkness and so far darkness is where I still am.

Is there any recourse when purchasing from an affiliate vendor and no delivery occurs and no response comes from the seller over 3 days gone by? I know it's a long holiday but now I'm wondering what do I do next, on tomorrow and tomorrow etc? I find no method of redelivery either here or at the DrLife Main Store which I wish to heavens I had found first! I bought hair from a little spot owned by <REMOVED> on the region <REMOVED>, where she sells <REMOVED>. It's actually a little cheaper than the main store. Lesson learned for me, I guess! I followed her instructions on her profile and sent a copy of the Transaction History found on my SL account webpage, which I dutifully copied and sent to her, showing the date, the transaction code, destination of payment, region, and description of item and amount paid. I'm standing here now at this forlorn little out-of-the way place wondering why I ever bought anything there, and It's now about to begin the 4th day after. Any suggestions? Do I just forget about it? Is that how the game is played? Thanksss