Allen's Acknowledged Alts.

Well, I can't speak to grid issues yesterday for JT Financial, but at the hour I withdrew my funds (and the transaction was recorded as completed on the Allenvest webpage, with 1000 Ls debited from my account) -- there was as little lag as I've seen in weeks. I also managed to complete a fair number of other monetary transactions in-world both yesterday and within hours on either side of the Allenvest attempt with no trouble. I'm looking at this excuse (especially now that you tell me it was also coming from JT Financial) with tremendous scepticism.

It seems far more likely to me that the reason for failure would be that there are no funds in the agent's account to be withdrawn, than that lag was somehow messing with these transactions going as they should. The ATM script worked, after a fashion, and did so quite without delay. A balance request seconds later at the in-world ATM, offered the same false number that was posted to the website as the result of the theoretically successful withdrawal that produced no actual transfer of Linoleums.

FWIW, I withdrew all the funds I could effectively withdraw within about a week or two of the opening of what was then the AVIX. All that remained in my account this morning, before the attempted withdrawal, was about 1300 Linoleums in an "open" account (if one can call an account with a 1000 Linoleum daily withdrawal ceiling "open"), plus and the $2000 Linoleum 12-month high-yield account (and accumulated fictive interest on same) that I had made on a particularly self-destructive impulse, knowing when I made it that I would probably never see it again. Net expected write-off: about 3,600 Loopy Lindens.

Given the web of interrelations between personalities at Allenvest and those at JT Financial, I would be very nervous at the moment if I had funds tied up with any of these entities. While prudence (and libel law) dictate that I give them the benefit of the doubt, this sort of maneuvering has the appearance of the sort of shell games that penny stock, boiler room and other Ponzi scheme confederates tend to engage in during the endgame in most such confidence schemes, as they seek to sow as much confusion as possible, to delay discover, cover the relocation of most of the supporting cast, and obscure the money trails that investigators will have to put together in order to make a case, should the responsible parties actually happen to be identified and located on the very real ground on which they are (at least for now) compelled to use as a basis for their biological existence and sustenance.

Wow, suddenly I'm getting a feel for what life will most likely become for wetware agents, once it becomes possible to upload consciousness permanently onto the übergrid. Time to jack in soon.