BabyDoll LaFontaine

I didn't delete any comments. The island was sold. No scam.

Full disclosure -- Clearly I gave this auction too much time because no one was bidding. Come to find out, you were all waiting for the last day to have a bid war. Me, being the land sale noob, I had no idea this is what you guys were up to. Changing the rules on my sale is my prerogative. Someone made me a good offer I liked, and now its a done deal. In this case, the worker ant got the the goods and all you crickets, cricket away. It took me years to put it up for sale because I don't want to deal with it. I just want to be done with it. And now I am, yay me. And all your disgruntledness is just kinda... enh. There will be other land sales. Good luck to you all.

It changed.

An offer has been accepted and the sale ticket has been submitted and pending.

Accepting offers via notecards only at this time, in increments of 10k, in the order they are received. Bidders will be notified if they are outbid via notecard. Thank you.

A first offer for L$300,000 has been received.

Private island full sim, grandfathered, with 30k upgrade, for sale! Starting Bid is transfer fee: $300.00 USD (L$75,000). Buyer pays for transfer! Bidding Ends Oct 26th at 6PM PDT. Offers must be within Second Life only. Make your offer in-world: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Taunt/184/144/23 Sim tier due Oct 28th. Note, grandfathered sims give you a $100/month savings on sim tier! It is no longer possible to purchase grandfathering from LL; the only way is to buy a region that is already grandfathered! This sim has the 30k upgrade; that is, you get 30,000 prims on the sim for $30 USD/month. This upgrade may be removed by paying LL a one-time fee of $30 USD. Current tier is $209/mo due every 28th of the month. Please bid with the offer board in world. Due to infrequent logins, private messages may be lost. Please send Notecards. Highest bidder will be notified as soon as bidding has ended. Offer payment due when bidding ends.

We have considered charging for the HUD but as many have told me, people expect free in SL. We've considered creating add-ons to enhance the user experience, but since these games are part of a contest we felt it would be unfair to others. So we have a donation box for the programmer which is a very minimal amount, and I sell costumes that I used to make the NPCs for sale so they can "play" the part, but mostly the biggest payment is probably brand recognition from my clothing store which just about covers tier fees and purchases made for the game. I couldn't bear spending the amount of time I have building these games, charging for them, and no one showing up. The reason I started working on these games in the first place was to create a new user experience in SL that would make it fun again, not for me but for everyone. Additionally, these games have a certain life span. We can spend a month or more building a murder mystery, for example, and then unless we constantly advertise it, it quickly becomes forgotten. And we don't even charge. If we leave the mystery up for longer than a month, any traffic afterwards is barely a trickle.

My partner and I have released many different mystery games in SL, all of them seasonal, under the group TAUNT MURDER MYSTERY: Who Killed CheerGirl? Who Killed Santa? Who Killed Jack Rabbit? Mystery @ Camp Taunt, Who Killed Pixeleen?, and now we are about to release our final murder mystery tomorrow, Who Melted Frosty? I try to make the games as much like URU as I can but I have limited resources. A lot of people have mistakenly called them hunts but they are really mystery games with HUD and all. A lot of work goes into these, and they are always taken down and a new one goes up 4x a year. A lot of people who have played them have told me that it was the best couple hours that they've ever spent in SL. They meet other people, work together and have fun along the way.

This is getting a big THUMBS down from me. Marketplace is taking money from my customers, the boxes are not delivering, my customers DON'T GET refunded, and I"m expected to give them their packages for FREE. My most active box keeps going offline, probably from overuse, and this is ridiculous. It should automatically refund the people. NOT keep the money. They are making FREE MONEY off us.