Marc Bragg (Second Life Avatar: ‘Marc Woebegone’) Posted the following comment in the Landbot Directory, since I find this information somewhat amusing I’ve did a post here where it will be more visible:
“MERLIN SELLS LANDBOT ON e-Bay WOOOOT! GO MERLIN GO!!!
Landbot legend Merlin has listed is software program for sale on e-Bay… for $523.00 something, if you buy it now…. Now, I found scripters willing to write one for around $100.00 or so, so the price is high, but the concept delicious.
Link here:
http://cgi.ebay.com:80/landbot-second-life_W0QQitemZ120195198197QQcmdZViewItem
Description:
landbot for second life.
A program to automatically log into second life and search the land for sale database and automatically buy land at the size and price you set.easy to use. simple to set up.
you could buy a entire sim for 1/3rd of a penny!!! It’s the luck of the draw, or luck of the teleport.
This program has been in use for over year, a never ending saga of progress in both engineering and design.
For less then the price of 1/4 SIM you could buy unlimited land for unbelievably low prices!
In order to keep competition down and increase your odd’s of getting those awesome deals i will only sell one copy of this program at this price, after this one sells the price goes up 100USD for each copy that sells after it.
goodluck
IM LandBot Merlin
Inworld with questions.This is a computer program and will be emailed to you.
Zero delivery fee.”
I’m guessing this sudden release after Merlin not being in the landbot game for over a year is inspired by the public landbot projects goals of creating a free landbot. I’ll be a little bit conspiratorial and say from the information on the e-bay listing that appears to be Second Life Avatar ‘Bob Perry’ trying to hawk his vapor ware landbot which was never actually working or competitive. Also from a gleaning of the screen shot I am pretty certain that the landbot shown would not be competitive as it is missing a few obvious things. You will also notice this auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120195048709 has the same screen shot but lacks the ‘legend Landbot Merlin’ rhetoric. Yup.. sure smells like ‘Bob Perry’. I’ll also point out that the auction I listed shows one has already been sold for less than the current ‘landbot merlin’ version.
And Lastly ‘Landbot Merlin’ is not the same as the notorious ‘Landbaron Merlin’, Infact as far as I am aware ‘Landbot Merlin’ has never actually purchased a parcel of land.
— Stuck
Landbot Invasion 