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Originally Posted by ChatNoir Moonsoo  Yes, I realized too late that the subject line can be read as an ad  .
So to add confusion not only to the rules but to vocabulary too: the real owner is the billing account, not the estate owner?
I'm asking because of the knowledge base articles I've seen so far being the estate owner means that you also get to control whether the sim "goes under" or is being sold.
If I get you get right it would lead to this situation:
- estate owner fails to pay to billing account,
- estate owner sells sim to someone and gets the money (in-world),
- billing account is charged with transfer fee and ongoing maintenance fees,
- the new estate owner has no idea what's going on behind teh curtains,
- billing account finally decides to "sink the sim" and new estate owner loses the sim.
Sounds like a recipe for scams.  |
As far as I know there's only two ways to sell estate land. Either, they would sell you the sim via the inworld land tools, your name would appear as the owner in about land, you would have the functionality of an owner. Actual ownership is still retained by the person who bought the island from LL. Unlike mainland, the billing doesn't switch to you when you buy it. You're correct when you say, the real owner is the person LL bills.
So yes, you could put money down, pay for the sim, and they could pull the rug out any time. It all works on trust and reputation.
The only other way is a direct user to user sale of the sim, with the money paid externally, and the currrent owner asking the Lindens to transfer ownership. Once again, that also works on trust, there's no LL mechanism in place to assure that transaction.
Unless they've changed something since I was an island owner, don't think they have. I assume open spaces are the same. From what you've posted, it sounds a little like they're setting out to confuse.