Banking Licenses Sold!

[Marco|MindArk]

Originally Posted by AlphaGeek

Any reports of real banks even bidding?

I cannot comment on that yet. I also cannot comment wheter a real bank won any license. More info will come.

[Midnght]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

I cannot comment on that yet. I also cannot comment wheter a real bank won any license. More info will come.

Can ya quote an estimated time for the new VU that will support them?

P.S. Hello. Great auction to BTW.

[AlphaGeek]

Right, then. Thanks Marco for the quick reply... but.. until you can give us useful data on the subject, we can try to determine "Who are those guys??"

Now, on to what we can determine... There are two... or maybe 3 unknowns that won bids. Unless one of the other three resell, then these are the only two that can actually be "real" banks.

Bank#1- Yuri iNTellect Efremov
Bank#2- Jolana Kitty Brice (PREVIOUS LA HOLDER- Probably NOT A *REAL* BANK)
Bank#3- Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs (USUAL SUSPECT - Probably NOT A *REAL* BANK)
Bank#4- Janus JD D'Arcwire
Bank#5- Baroness Anshe Chung (if really her VR PROPERTY SPECULATOR - NOT A *REAL* BANK)

Bank 1 and Bank 3 went to total unknowns... at least as far as Google is concerned. The others do turn up in searches, and are EU or otherwise MMORPG oriented.

WILD EYED SPECULATION FOLLOWS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.


Janus is a known name in investor circles, but I don't believe they delve into traditional banking. EU would not seem to be their corporate cup o' tea. Can't really tell much else with such a common name online.
As far as I'm concerned, the jury is out on this one.


"Yuri Efremov" google searches reveal some interesting information; a namesake in the entertainment industry... owner of something, and many hits on an astronomer of the same name. The most interesting and possibly most salient link I could locate was casino.ru-cat.ru, a page which holds the following text:

casinoclubrussia.ru 19.5.2005 0:00:00 19.5.2006 0:00:00 19.6.2006 0:00:00 Yuri I Efremov

I don't read Russian, but that kind of looks like a domain registry for something related to online gambling. If that's the case and this is the same Yuri, then I don't think this one is a real bank.


Of course, I'd love to be proven wrong on these!

Cheers,

AG

[Rival]

I think few people have yet realized the true utilitary play these banks will provide...

Imagine when it's time to bid on more LA's. Rather than liquidate things, players can just "hock" stuff to raise the capital needed. The banks will send future LA auctions through the ceiling... and make a fortune for the bank owners.

[Jessie Star]

Originally Posted by Rival

I think few people have yet realized the true utilitary play these banks will provide...

Imagine when it's time to bid on more LA's. Rather than liquidate things, players can just "hock" stuff to raise the capital needed. The banks will send future LA auctions through the ceiling... and make a fortune for the bank owners.

umm ... yes, and this is a HUGE problem for PE. Things are so out of control now as it is with the reseller problem. All we can do is hope that MA will come up with something to help correct the market, before there's a crash.

[Vap0r]

Grats to MA for some nice sales !
Also grats to Neverdie, I know he wanted one pretty bad

[Moonbiter]

Originally Posted by AlphaGeek

casinoclubrussia.ru 19.5.2005 0:00:00 19.5.2006 0:00:00 19.6.2006 0:00:00 Yuri I Efremov

I don't read Russian, but that kind of looks like a domain registry for something related to online gambling. If that's the case and this is the same Yuri, then I don't think this one is a real bank.


Of course, I'd love to be proven wrong on these!

Cheers,

AG

Yup, it's an online casino.

[maxwellhawk]

Originally Posted by Moonbiter

Yup, it's an online casino.

Yeah -- that will be great for MA - linked to a known gambling interest!

[Ruff]

Originally Posted by AlphaGeek

"Yuri Efremov" google searches reveal some interesting information
...

My socmate told before about it.
Try to google John Smith...
Both names are very common russian names.

[Zib Black Onyx]

so what the fuck do the banks actually do?

are they basically pawn shops?

why do we need 5 of them?

why do we need them at all? couldnt someone just set up a regular pawn shop?

or maybe its a true system where once the terms are set if the person pays back the loan they get the item back - the bank cant "fuck them over" so to speak.

blah blah blah just gimme some fucking loot lol.