| In general, no object can take money from you or send part of a transaction to anyone else unless you give it permission to take L$ from you.
That being said, as you are looking for tip jar that can split tips, it will need permission to take L$ from you so that it can pay the dancers their share. This is because an object isn't actually able to hold L$, all tips are paid to the object owner first.
So what is to be done. As you have noticed there are tons of tip jars on xstreet, some are cheap to buy upfront but will pay the creator a share - these should, and mostly do say so as much in the xstreet listing. Hopefully any that don't will have been reported and removed.
But there is no harm in playing it safe by dealing with people who have been recommended or have a legitimate business and reputation to maintain; looking at the creator's avatar age or their in-world store can give you some clues.
I have sent you one of my donation boxes via xstreet, when you rez it, it will ask if it can take L$ from you, the reason being that it can optionally be set to share payments with other avatars if you so choose. |