Comments on: Coldwell Banker Selling Second Life Homes http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/coldwell-banker-selling-second-life-homes/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Prokofy Neva http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/coldwell-banker-selling-second-life-homes/#comment-54266 Prokofy Neva Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:12:53 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-54266 Coldwell Banker couldn't have picked *worse* inworld partners for this strange sojourn into Second Life, where, contrary to their outrageously libelous press releases, the land dealers existing there now aren't "unscrupulous" but work hard often at great losses to serve the public. In their own press release, Coldwell talks about how in their history, they helped restore San Francisco from the earthquake and saved people from dealing with unscrupulous landlords. But in Second Life, Coldwell has chosen two very dubious avatars -- Ancient Shriner of Icehouse Land Holdings and Chrischun Fassbinder -- as their managers and holders of the simulators -- both of whom are notorious for setting ugly, bright, spinning ad signs on tiny parcels of property of 16m2 in the virtual world and setting it to sale for outrageously extortionist prices in order to make a buck off people's need to "buy back the view". I am shocked that a real-life reputable business would hook up with these kinds of characters in SL. <br /> <br /> Here's a detailed story I've done on this for the Second Life Herald:<br /> <a href="<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/03/signextortionis.html"">http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/03/signextortionis.html"</a> title="<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/03/signextortionis.html"">http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/03/signextortionis.html"</a> target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/03/signex...">http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/03/signex...</a></a><br /> <br /> Coldwell Banker couldn't have picked *worse* inworld partners for this strange sojourn into Second Life, where, contrary to their outrageously libelous press releases, the land dealers existing there now aren't “unscrupulous” but work hard often at great losses to serve the public. In their own press release, Coldwell talks about how in their history, they helped restore San Francisco from the earthquake and saved people from dealing with unscrupulous landlords. But in Second Life, Coldwell has chosen two very dubious avatars — Ancient Shriner of Icehouse Land Holdings and Chrischun Fassbinder — as their managers and holders of the simulators — both of whom are notorious for setting ugly, bright, spinning ad signs on tiny parcels of property of 16m2 in the virtual world and setting it to sale for outrageously extortionist prices in order to make a buck off people's need to “buy back the view”. I am shocked that a real-life reputable business would hook up with these kinds of characters in SL.

Here's a detailed story I've done on this for the Second Life Herald:
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