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In my viewer at least, there is a critical problem that occurs, in that the popup window asking for my final approval of a land sale happens to completely obscure the dollar amount entry box (and thus the most important piece of information on the screen: the price per m2 that is calculated next to the prospective sale price).

Yes, I can drag that window out of the way to double check that I am not setting the land for sale at some ridiculously low rate. But I have to do that each and every time, a process open to mistakes and at least a small possibility that, in passing the mouse over the box, my finger might slip and accidentally approve the sale I was trying to triple-check the rate on. This is just one of many example of poor UI design that I feel sure leads to at least a handful of errors every day. This is especially a problem when one in the process of setting more than one lot for sale.

By their nature, such errors are likely to be costly ones. In my one brush with landbots, luckily with those operated by Elanthius, who allowed me to repurchase the mislabelled lot from him at the same price that I had erroneously set, within an hour or two of my nearly fatal error -- what happened was that I had been setting the same or similar prices for a large number of 512 m2 parcels in a newly auctioned region. Stupidly I had not set the sun to noon, as I was rushing to get this done and get myself to bed. Exhaustion and associated braincell death led me to select a *very* large lot and set it for sale at a price translating to less than 1 Linoleum/ m2.

Had the landbot operator been one of many others, I expect the land would have been sold off almost immediately and I would have lost hundreds of dollars with that one mistaken mouseclick.

The fact that it takes 8 mouseclicks per parcel of land actually has the opposite effect, particularly when one is dealing with land in any volume -- it puts the first time auction purchaser of a sim in a position of needing to go through a lot of repetitive and tedious clicking that encourages one's attention to wander. User interface safeguards that *might* protect the owner of a single 512 m2 plot (assuming that owner knows about 'bots, and has been warned to never offer land at sub-market price levels EXCEPT through exclusive sale to the avatar the plot is intended for) has the opposite impact, at least the first few times one tries to streamline the process of preparing land for individual resale.