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Norris Shepherd

Went online to my account to check transaction history, and saw a few $2 and $3 transactions over the past weeks... with the description of 'Group Liability'. They made no sense to me.

Contacted the group admin.. who got back to me, did some checking and said it was a mistake. (And I'm gonna leave it at that. I give people the benefit of the doubt, but i do have a long memory.. and no i'm not gonna say what group it was. A new venue owner, and it is probable that it was an honest mistake Smile

BUT ... if someone was unscrupulous, it would be a good way to skim money because you don't get a little blue pop up for dollar amounts under 10$L or 50$L or whatever. So probably 95% or more of the people in the group would never notices a few linden gone each week.

Just FYI.. keep an eye out.

... also, i think you can change the minimum amount of $L value before you get the confirmation blue screen. It's um... somewhere..

... oh yeah.. and i'm not that hard up that i was worried about 3$L .. honest.. just the principle.. ya know. Smile

Jojamela Soon · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject:

What you got hit with Norris is a group liability charge. It's a common mistake made by group owners where they forget to take the check mark out of the "accounting" portion of the roles set up. Usually the charge is for listing the group owned land in about places (I think is like 30-40L a week) but it could be a substantial charge (like tier). I got hit by one of these by accident by a very reputable group, it was just a mistake.

Reminder to any group owners (including your fan club group)- check the roles in your group and make sure that the "accounting" section is left unchecked in all roles except for the "owner" of the group (unless of course you intend for others in your group to help pay for stuff)

Edit to add- there is no blue pop up notification that will apply to group liabilities- it's just taken out of your account and unless you check your transactions regularly you will never know.
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ticious · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 2114 Location: Chicago

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I've donate land to a group, several times. Not sure of all the technical stuff ... but it ends up in my land liabilities (I can just have a tad more land at the tier level is all I've noticed).

/me runs off to check the accounting on my groups
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Doubledown Tandino · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject:

yeah... it's not so much under-the-radar.. more that the group owner never unchecked that in the group roles.... Ive had to tell group owners to uncheck that box, and then everything works out cool.... the group liability charge will never be more than a few bux.... and the group owner has no idea usually that he's pulling in these few pennies
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Doubledown Tandino · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

yeah, thats what i meant.... usually it's a group paying the group owner's $30L for parcel listing.
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Norris Shepherd · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject:

Cool.

... now I'm just that little bit less ignorant than I was this morning. Wink

Good stuff to know.

BabbleGrabble · Joined: 21 Nov 2007 Posts: 589 Location: San Francisco

I didn't know you had to uncheck something - damn, I'd better go do that.
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Fyrm Fouroux · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

Yes, that was puzzling me, Norris. I got a L$1 taken out of my account on 22nd April.

It lists the group and I will try to contact them. Thanx
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