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Remember when I wrote 'Landbaron Merlin Getting His Just Rewards?'. The technology arms race continues.

Apparently, the members of a group called 'Best in SL' are pulling the same trick on other people that was played on Landbaron Merlin. The quick switching of prices caught Muratus LosAngeles for 43,000L today when he was buying a piece of land at 4,300L. A 512 m² piece of land. That is a 38,700 Linden dollar difference. That is approximately $139 US.

That is a big chunk of change.

Muratus swears that the confirmation screens all said 4,300 Lindens, and he said he has the snapshots to prove it. Is he the first person to get caught? No. Sergio Sobocinski was the first victim of this - and there have been others whose permission I do not have to use their names.

And remember what Linden Lab's Cory Linden said in response to Chaos Mohr:

[12:28] Jeska Linden shouts: Chaos Mohr: What is being done to address land database issues which result in things such as parcels being paid for and not transferring, parcels being sold to multiple people etc? This seems to be a major technical issue which keeps cropping up and hasn’t been fixed yet.
[12:28] Cory Linden shouts: These are likely symtpoms of the broader stresses on the central db and transactions..
[12:29] Cory Linden shouts: as I mentioned int he blog post, we are attacking these problems in two ways, to first identity weak spots in the current system and to build a better transaction system as well.

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