Region Transfers Are Much Too Efficient!

So I decided to sell a sim and a homestead as part of my tiering down exercise. This went better than expected, for a start I hadn’t been paying attention and didn’t realise Homesteads sold on the second hand market considering Linden Lab’s USD$100 transfer fee put a big dent in the resale value, I didn’t think that would sell, but I noticed some past group notices and tried my luck and yes there is a market for second hand Homesteads.

However, Linden Lab are extremely efficient when it comes to sim transfers these days it seems, well efficient to the extent that they ruined all my plans by being so damn efficient! Things started well, three minutes after I went to the pub someone asked me if I was selling a sim, unfortunately this meant I was in the pub and didn’t see the message and by the time I got back to them, they’d bought a sim. However a new opportunity was spotted and someone came to look at my sim:

Mystery Avatar: How much? Quick! It’s for the wife.

Me : Twenty shekels.

Mystery Avatar Wife:  Wait, transfer time, minus delay, minus Linden Lab having lunch, we’ll give you fifteen shekels.

Me: Done!

Mystery Avatar: What? What are you doing, We’re supposed to haggle.

Me: No no, it’s ok I’ve got to…

Mystery Avatar: What do you mean, ‘no’?

Me: I haven’t time — I’ve got to sell a Homestead.

Mystery Avatar Calls Wife.

Mystery Avatar Wife: What is it?

Mystery Avatar: This bloke won’t haggle!

Me: Ok ok, seventeen Shekels.

Mystery Avatar Wife: Are you telling me it’s not worth twenty shekels? You asked for twenty shekels!

Me: But you said no!

Mystery Avatar: Of course we said no, we’re haggling, you’re supposed to haggle! Tut tut. Now try again, we’ll give you fifteen.

Me: …….Fifteen? Did I hear you right? Fifteen?? This cost me an arm and a leg — do you want to ruin me?

Mystery Avatar Wife: That’s better!

Me: Nineteen and I’m giving it away.

Mystery Avatar Wife: Eighteen.

Me: Seventeen.

Mystery Avatar Wife: Sold.

Me: …….. Hold on, damn they’ve gone!

So we exchanged ticket numbers and went about our business and the bloody thing transferred in twenty six hours, that’s right, twenty six hours, not five to ten days!

Now it seems odd to be complaining about Linden Lab being uber efficient but I think I might have got nineteen shekels for the sim if all parties had known it was going to transfer in twenty six hours, the Homestead transferred to another party in even less time.

Now I’m puzzled about this as the person buying the Homestead wanted a quick transfer and was disappointed that I wasn’t on extended support, if you’re on extended support these transfers are quicker than five to ten days. The people buying the full sim were resigned to having to wait five to ten days for the transfer, I was slowly clearing that sim down and removing items and asking people to come and get their stuff.

The moral of the story here is, sim transfers may be quicker than you expect, but if you expect them to be quick, they will probably take five to ten days! I’ll say this though, Concierge support certainly seem to be on the ball when it comes to dealing with tickets, that’s a definite positive.

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