Obviously, I misunderstood what this person was saying, but it's easy to see why. And this "let me role-play doing business with people as a savvy professional" stuff is just all too frequent in SL and all too stupid.
What aggravates me about people like this is that they demand a meeting to accomplish something that doesn't need a meeting. That is always a tip-off to me of someone either hustling me, or just requiring enormous amounts of hand-holding I can't provide.
But what torques me the most about this type in SL is that once I figured out what she was trying to say, which was "I want to rent a house on your land but I want more prims than what than land is set to," I realized that she wasn't reading any of the leases or FAQs on site or any of that. That's common, and I'm willing to repeat it, but when I explain it's on self-service -- so I don't spend more than a minute more than I need to on a US $3.99 a month rental from which I might make perhaps...forty cents at best...and then the person gets indignant and outraged and begins to f-bomb me, then I'm definitely done.
[2012/07/29 13:01] CoyBlitz: (Saved Sun Jul 29 14:57:15 2012)HI Randome, My name is Tazzi, and i was so excited to run across your sim (s) today. I am very much interested in putting together a customized option to place my home on one of your available lots. Can we get together and discuss my options. I would like to keep it all at 300-500a week , with the most possible prims. I am failry new to SL, but have been very obsorbed in how it all works. So I do have some questions, but not many. Thank You !!
[2012/07/29 13:01] Second Life: secondlife:///app/agent/f92a02b8-db0e-4964-9dde-5d804aa15827/about is offering friendship.
From : Tazzi
(By default, you will be able to see each other's online status.)
[2012/07/29 13:03] Random Unsung: Thanks for the offer but it's not something I can use right now.
[2012/07/29 13:06] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): im sorry? Maybe some miscommunication. Let me rephrase that. I want to rent from you.
[2012/07/29 13:06] Random Unsung: No, what you're telling me is that you want to put out your houses to sell on my rentals
[2012/07/29 13:07] Random Unsung: and the answer is, no, my cheap rentals aren't available for you to use as a sales office
[2012/07/29 13:07] Random Unsung: if you want to rent a commercial lot on one of our sims you can look on the list and just rent it, they're on self-service
[2012/07/29 13:07] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): No sir not at all what i am say is. I have 300-500 a week I can afford to pay for rent
[2012/07/29 13:08] Random Unsung: No, this is what you said: "in putting together a customized option to place my home on one of your available lots. "
[2012/07/29 13:08] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): i was reading your card and it stated if i wanted to put my own home on your land i could
[2012/07/29 13:08] Random Unsung: well why are you talking about "customized" options? It sounds like you are making and selling a home
[2012/07/29 13:08] Random Unsung: and I don't wish to use that sort of system, it doesn't work for me
[2012/07/29 13:09] Random Unsung: if you mean you just want to rent a parcel and place your home, the rentals aer on self-service, you can do that
[2012/07/29 13:09] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): yes if i was to put my home on your land and possible add more prim then that would be customizing it
[2012/07/29 13:09] Random Unsung: find one in your price range
[2012/07/29 13:09] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): why are you being so shity to me
[2012/07/29 13:09] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): not very nice
[2012/07/29 13:09] Random Unsung: why are you using such odd fake-professional language?
[2012/07/29 13:09] Random Unsung: that's the question
[2012/07/29 13:09] Random Unsung: Look, these are self-service rentals, they are self-explanatory
[2012/07/29 13:09] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): and you keep sayiing NO its not what i mean when I know better then you what I meant and am saying
[2012/07/29 13:10] Random Unsung: if you want a $300 rental, you rent it, and join the group, put out your house
[2012/07/29 13:10] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): OMG wait please back up and let's start over.
[2012/07/29 13:10] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): Hi Im Tazzi
[2012/07/29 13:10] Random Unsung: a) you are not speaking simply b) you are not making sense c) you have gotten into the habit of sounding what you think is professional and it isn't
[2012/07/29 13:10] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): i am interested in renting one of your properties
[2012/07/29 13:10] Random Unsung: then rent them? you don't need a meeting or a conversation
[2012/07/29 13:10] Random Unsung: self service means...you serve yourself and save
[2012/07/29 13:10] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): Excuse me?
[2012/07/29 13:10] Random Unsung: that's it!
[2012/07/29 13:11] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): are you a real person or a Bot
[2012/07/29 13:11] Random Unsung: I'm not here to role-play "professional" with you hon
[2012/07/29 13:11] Random Unsung: I'm a real person, and I will not waste another minute on your because you're just harassing me at this point
[2012/07/29 13:11] Random Unsung: I have self service rentals, serve YOURSELF and read the instructions and rent if you wish
[2012/07/29 13:11] Random Unsung: good bye
[2012/07/29 13:11] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): Please if you want real when im trying to be polite i can be a fucking bitch too
[2012/07/29 13:17] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): I am 50 years old not some punk kid you can munipulate with your egotistical shit, You are very rude to someone you don't even know. And I am not and was not Harrassing you. I am happy to save this chat and get more opinions on that. Pssffs! Roleplay professional? It is obvious that you don't have a chance in hell to win that one. I have not met one single person in SL that wasn't nice until today.
[2012/07/29 13:18] Random Unsung: I'm happy to get more opinions too
[2012/07/29 13:18] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): good-bye to you too.
[2012/07/29 13:19] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): you know what? i wish you would. Maybe you should of reread my message.
oh , well then I am sorry, I didn't realize you suffered from that unforntunate mental illness. I apologise. They say coconut oil helps improve the memory. Even on alzhimers patients.
Great job. Pretending not to understand english adds a new twist in dealing with people who walk into your trap and dare to rent a parcel at Ravenglass.
Nobody can say you aren't fair. This "Rental Dementia" series tells everybody what they have to expect when they do business with you. I love it. :)
Posted by: Millennium Sands | July 30, 2012 at 01:28 PM
Millenium Sands is in the People List,a 2007 birth date, no description, a handful of groups, chief of which is "SL Herald Editorial",. Gosh, guess who that is! When you're ready to tell us the name of your main account, you can join the club, dear, meanwhile you're blocked.
I understood English, and I understood it wrongly because the person was trying to role-play being a savvy business person and expected me to role-play along with them and spend time "making a customized deal" blah blah. And I'm not here to role-play. I'm here to supervise self-service rentals that are self-explanatory.
Then when I figured out what they were trying to say with their faux-savvy business role-play, I explained it to them simply:
2012/07/29 13:09] Random Unsung: if you mean you just want to rent a parcel and place your home, the rentals aer on self-service, you can do that
[2012/07/29 13:09] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): yes if i was to put my home on your land and possible add more prim then that would be customizing it
[2012/07/29 13:09] Random Unsung: find one in your price range
[2012/07/29 13:09] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): why are you being so shity to me
[2012/07/29 13:09] TAZZI PRECIOUS (coyblitz): not very nice
[2012/07/29 13:09] Random Unsung: why are you using such odd fake-professional language?
Yet there she is, trying to get more prims, lower prices, is silly because it's already rock bottom.
This person wouldn't end up on my blog expect for the fact that they threatened to harm my business unnecessarily, after having the system explained to them politely but firmly, and started using the word "shitty" etc unnecessarily and then culminated in saying they would "share this conversation" in SL in violation of the TOS.
It's when people *threaten* like that that I *publicize their bad behaviour*. I warn them on my profile:
"Your abusive IM constitutes permission to publish your chat as I am in one-party consent New York State."
And that's the law. Lindens have no law in New York State or over my blog on the Internet, they only have law over their inworld virtual world on their servers.
Since we have no way of suing for damages and no courts or rule of law in Second Life, this is how I'm going to roll: name and shame, and deter from bad behaviour. Works for me.
The fact that she came and joined Tizzers to grief me lets me know I made the right call on this person.
Posted by: Prokofy Neva | July 30, 2012 at 03:45 PM
I had the same experience. I am an artist as well as a resident in Second Life, being introduced to the game by one of my real life friends a year ago. Having rejoined the game, I came across the rental business owned by this person. I politely asked him for help, and he was very abusive towards me, accusing me of being someone called Tizzer and laughing at me for having few friends in Second Life (I have a number of friends in Second Life). I found his responses and overall behavior very strange. I am not Tizzer and would have been happy to provide my real life info if he needed this information. Now, I've googled his avatar, and there is an article saying he has a history of being like this towards others. My advice would definitely be to find another landlord.
Posted by: Robert Greenwood (PastorRobert) | July 31, 2012 at 03:03 PM