So recently, I attempted to buy Linden Dollars with a credit card I don't normally use, but that concerned the company, Chase Visa, so they put a lock on my account. I called Chase to find out why, and as it turned out, it was because Linden Dollars represented a purchase I don't usually make. Specifically, the automated robot lady on the phone told me, Linden Dollars are classified as "Membership in professional organizations and labor unions." Which is an extremely strange way to classify virtual goods, but then again, comparing them to union dues seems sort of appropriate too. And that's my story of SL money colliding with the real world financial system, what's yours?
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When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that:
"Have ya paid your dues, Jack?"
"Yessir, the check is in the mail."
Posted by: Little Lost Linden | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 01:39 AM
Every time my monthly land-tier payments come out of my UK bank account (because I forgot to top-up my SL account or PayPal) I get a call from my bank asking if the transaction to a toy shop in San Francisco is for real...
Posted by: Jovin | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 03:23 AM
If you itemize, you can deduct dues to professional organizations under US tax law. I should start paying tier again :)
Posted by: Ignatius Onomatopoeia | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 05:19 AM
This is Second Life. We're ALL eight-foot tall maniacs (tiny company excepted).
Posted by: Arcadia Codesmith | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 06:28 AM
Hmmm unions, racketeering, thuggery, strongarm tactics... nope. no observable similarity at all. Where do they get such silly ideas? Could it be due to no gambling in SL so they can't use that excuse anymore and had to pluck a different one out of the air?
Anyway LL seriously needs to sell L$ prepaid cards like IMVU and everyone else. Then just buy those.
Posted by: Ann Otoole InSL | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 10:10 AM
@little lost linden
+10 pts for a Big Trouble In Little China reference!!!!
"It's all in the reflexes" ^_^
Posted by: Miso Susanowa | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Yeah, because the shattered, anemic remnants of the American labor movement are soooooo SCAWY!Boo!
Posted by: Arcadia Codesmith | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM
@Ann Otoole InSL... Just read Ann's post, spot on
Posted by: brinda allen | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 11:21 AM
nearly every online purchase i try to make is blocked by my cc company i can't understand how millions a year in online CC fraud goes on when legit cardholders nearly always get declined,
Posted by: Pattaya Bar Girls | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Switch to Wells Fargo. They don't care what I buy as long as I pay my bill.
Posted by: Nan | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 07:07 PM