"8 SIM ESTATES *FULL TRANSFER* SECOND LIFE" - eBay deadline 28 SeptemberEight of the ten TCH Estates sims, including the surfing spots of Barbuda, St. Maarten and Mandi Island have been posted for sale by ATown Fall on online auction site eBay under the heading "8 SIM ESTATES *FULL TRANSFER* SECOND LIFE". However, former TCH Surfers Open venue Saba Island is not included in the package. Investors must register their bids by Sunday 28 September and the deal must be concluded by the successful bidder within 12 hours of the auction close.
eBay's listed 'Buy It Now' price for the seven open sims and one full sim is US$3,500. In addition to the cost of bidding for the sims, the new owner of TCH Estates would need to pay Linden Lab $100 per sim to transfer the ownership of the sims and then pay monthly tier fees to Linden Lab of US$75 per month for each of the seven open sims and US$100 per month for the full sim.
TCH Estates could cost the new owner US$6,175According to our calculations this could mean a total investment of US$6,175 by the year end (should someone pay the 'Buy It Now' asking price), although the eBay listing indicates that the seven of the sims already generate enough revenue to pay their own tier, which may bring this investment down to US$4,600. According to eBay's records ATown Fall has been trading on eBay since March 2008 and he has a 96.4% positive approval rating from other eBay users on his eBay transactions.
Barbuda, one of four surf sims on TCH Estates (May 2008)ATown's eBay listing also includes a clause protecting current TCH Estates residents from tier free increases stating that "the current tier can be lowered but not raised from the current amount which is $L3.85 per sqm".
Useful links
SurfWatch: TCH headed for a watery grave? (24 Sep 08)
SurfWatch: Surfline shuts down (28 Jun 08)
SurfWatch: Estates join forces to create massive watersports development (23 May 08)
URL: 8 sim estates *Full Transfer* Second Life (eBay)
SLURL: Barbuda
SLURL: Mandi Island
SLURL: Saba Island
SLURL: St. Maarten
SLURL: TCH Enterprises
Useful links
SurfWatch: TCH headed for a watery grave? (24 Sep 08)
SurfWatch: Surfline shuts down (28 Jun 08)
SurfWatch: Estates join forces to create massive watersports development (23 May 08)
URL: 8 sim estates *Full Transfer* Second Life (eBay)
SLURL: Barbuda
SLURL: Mandi Island
SLURL: Saba Island
SLURL: St. Maarten
SLURL: TCH Enterprises
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3 comments:
This what I tried to get across last weekend on my post on the SLSA forum! SLSA needs to ban together to save surfing in Sl more closures are soon to follow
Aspen Parx
The SLSA has nothing to do with the SL economy and the spirit of surfing is alive and well in spite of your comments last weekend.
To suggest that this closure has anything at all to do with ANY group is silly.
Surfing comprised less than 20% of the activites on TCH.
Simple economics.
/V
I'm sorry to see yet another estate that offered support for the surfing community go down like this. As an owner fighting for SL survival each and every day, I can understand very intimately the stress and frustrations of running a sim.
The SL economy lies so close to the RL economy that it has no option but to follow the RL downturn. Sadly, we don't have a SL government willing to pump L$700b into us to shore up the SL economy as the banks have in RL ;) I truly hope that there will not be anymore closures, including my own.
I also hope that someone within Linden Lab will sit up and take notice of just how great a community the surfing community has become, and the amazing attraction that it offers newbies coming into SL.
Too many times I have heard new residents join and then leave because they did not feel they could find a purpose in SL, unlike the virtual gaming worlds like WOW or EVE, and for once I have seen a community in-world that offers just such a hope to these new residents, and we have seen many stay because of that.
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