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  1. Sid Nagy
    In simplest possible words: Run the land business as if you don't have the 10% group bonus and speculate with the 10% extra that you get through the group bonus.
  2. Sid Nagy
    It is a fascinating discussion already. But I don't think this is the right thread for it, maybe not even the right forum. Although SL and its users will have to deal with AI as well.
  3. Sid Nagy
    Artists have always inspired themselves and each other by looking and learning from each others work, haven't they? So that AI learns from other artists is kind of a natural process IMHO. AI will simply become a competitor for all arts, whether it is painting, music, poetry, fashion, film, photography, literature, architecture ..... A new era, we have to adapt to that. Photography did not ruin painting, but changed it. Photographers weren't pleased with digital photography and digital processing at first either. Now almost everyone embraces these techniques and uses them. AI will not ruin human arts, but it will change it too. Life evolves, we will have to learn to use the new situation. AI is one of them.
  4. Sid Nagy
    How one calculates as a baron isn't really important. Goal always is to make a profit in the end. Big spenders have more wiggling power than small potatoes, just like everywhere.
  5. Sid Nagy
    Oh Yes there is. The early adopters who have bought lifetime accounts don't pay tier for a certain amount of land. They can price land for whatever they want and leave it empty as long as they want, without losing a penny or a cent.
  6. Sid Nagy
    @BilliJo Aldrin Markets evolve. One has to adapt or die. That was my point. Who is behind the evolution doesn't matter much. There is always someone to blame.
  7. Sid Nagy
    As a private land lover, I never pay more than nothing for a parcel. Plenty of land available in all kind of sizes. The situation hasn't changed in years. At the moment I have a corner parcel (so protected view on two sided) with 1713 LI for 1330 L$ a week. I'm not complaining. And if ugly building lovers move in next door, I just move on, no selling hassle. Done deal within a jiffy, no L$ have to exchange hands for the land. I find the whole land pricing in (for large chunks desolate and ugly) Mainland only worth a chuckle when I think about this land buying and selling. Land is available for tier only folks.
  8. Sid Nagy
    It is the first time that I decorated my place in SL this heavily, with a winter landscape, snow and all. So a lot more and a lot earlier than usual.
  9. Sid Nagy
    There will be winners and losers in the land game, just like with everything. Bellisseria for instance will have its influence on the Mainland market business, no doubt about that and now that Belli starts to connect with the Mainland continents it will influence the prices of land directly connected to the seas. But mesh clothing crippled the flexi dress market too. The platform evolves. Things change.
  10. Sid Nagy
    My guess is, that as long as their investments show a plus, they don't give a peep about how people think about the Mainland market. They are not in it to beautify SL or to make other users happy campers. They are in it for the USD that can be made with SL.
  11. Sid Nagy
    It all depends on what you are wasting your time on IMHO. I waste a lot of time with all kinds of everything, but as long as I'm comfy with it, I don't consider it lost time. A good movie, an interesting book, Second Life, enjoying my morning coffee and newspaper, the forums here, drawing, painting, enjoy doing totally nothing because there is no time pressure anymore since I retired. Postponing things I don't really like. It maybe considered wasted time for people who chase around every second for their jobs, households and family, but for me it is exactly what I like most at the moment, so I take the time to waste it on all.
  12. Sid Nagy
    There can be other reasons for the high prices, but I think @Zalificent Corvinus explained exactly how it works for barons and land flippers on the mainland. If I had a parcel somewhere at mainland and I would not want to sell it, because I use it myself, I might put up a ridiculous high for sale price as well. It gives bragging rights and if a complete fool shows up to pay that kind of money, it would be me laughing all the way to the bank. And there are the old life time accounts, who have some tier free land rights. To them putting up their land for sale costs them nothing, even is it is for sale for the rest of SL's time span left. They even might have forgotten all about SL by now.
  13. Sid Nagy
    Toronto is a city like most cities. Rome is a tourist attraction park, just like Venice, Amsterdam, Vegas. I would not like to live in any of that category. City centers trampled by tourists day after day. I like to go to Amsterdam every now and then, great shopping and museums, but in the end the best thing about that city is the outbound train back home. It is too crowded with tourists. I've been to Venice a few times. Beautiful, but living there? No thanks. They have the same problem. Rome is still on my bucket list somewhere. But when I see the pictures of the crowds everywhere..... I don't know if I will ever go there, although it must be beautiful to see a few of the highlights there.
  14. Sid Nagy
    Peeve. Now I'm craving for sea salt caramel chocolate. Of course non in the house.
  15. Sid Nagy
    Peeve about parcels: I ordered something yesterday. Delivery scheduled for today. So far so good. I got an e-mail this morning: Delivery between 10:00 and 16:00. That is a long time frame normally they give a time frame of two hours. But hey Sint Nicolas (December 5) is a big gifts thingy, so okay, they have a real prime time schedule now. I stayed at home and waited. 15.30 new e-mail: Delivery posponed until somewhere between 16:00 and 18:00. I Kept waiting. 17:30 new e-mail: Parcel successfully delivered. But, but, but...... nobody was at my front door. I went out to check the mail box... and there it was. They just ditched the parcel outside my appartment, not even bothered to press the doorbell. Grrrrrrrrrrr. 🤬 Those fools deliver in the USA too. I think this was my last online order until after Christmas.
  16. Sid Nagy
    And not only weather-wise.
  17. Sid Nagy
    According to Google: "In the event that a Marketplace store owner should wish to avoid doing business with a particular customer, adding the customer to the store owner's inworld block list will prevent the customer from purchasing items from their shop." According to Sid Nagy: "It doesn't help selling ones stuff though and selling stuff is what one wants as a merchant".
  18. Sid Nagy
    Here in The Netherlands we have seldom a lot of snow or long periods of snow although I live on the same latitude as Calgary in Canada, thanks to the relative warm seawater coming all the way from Florida. So I like it when it occasionally snows.
  19. Sid Nagy
    To me the customer is as important as my product is. Not every costumer is fluent in English or really handy in SL matters. There are people who think it is needed to be on each others friends list before one can IM each other. Others stop after IM-ing "hi" when one is offline. And a handful reacts in the review section of the marketplace after purchasing the product. I respond to all of them. Customers pay my SL bills, so every customer or potential customer I can contact who has a problem or a question, is a plus in my book. It can always lead to another sale in the future.
  20. Sid Nagy
    I opted out for the sales notifications. But I like to know when there is a review (not that this happens a lot these days) because there are people who don't contact the merchant if they have a problem or a question, but write it in a review. I had that a few times over the years. All easy fixes, but not where the reviews option is made for IMHO.
  21. Sid Nagy
    What viewer do you use? I'm on the latest original SL viewer (the one from Linden Lab) and it works just fine.
  22. Sid Nagy
    Responding to customers is indeed essential, also in my book. But one never can win them all. There are people who think that one has to respond instantly, like 5 minutes max, as if merchants are 24/7 available for Second Life and all live in the same time zone.
  23. Sid Nagy
    You get e-mail notifications, not inworld.
  24. Sid Nagy
    When I log in to SL to hang on my building platform first thing is switching to midday. When I explore I use shared environment. So I do see the sun rise at times. At the moment I have a winter scene around my house, I use the midnight setting when I'm there.
  25. Sid Nagy
    Asking for my barber: Where can one get a subscription on the National Blab?
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