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- On Owned! you can:
- Buy and sell your friends.
- See how you rank compared to your friends and everyone else on myYearbook.
Here's how you make money:- Earn half the profit whenever you sell someone or whenever your photo gets bought.
- You earn L$1 for every photo you view.
The idea behind Owned is to buy low and sell high to make the most Lunch Money off of your friends' photos! - Buy and sell your friends.
- When a photo sells in Owned!, the Lunch Money gets split between the previous owner of the photo and the person who uploaded the photo.
The previous owner of the photo receives a bulk of the Lunch Money -- everything they paid for the photo, plus half the profit (which is the difference between what they paid and what the new owned paid). The remaining half of the profit goes to the user who uploaded the photo.
Example:- Alice pays L$5,000 for a photo of Bob.
- Charlie then comes around and pays L$8,000 for that photo.
- Alice gets her L$5,000 back plus half of L$3,000 (L$8,000 - L$5,000), amounting to L$6,500 total.
- Bob gets $1,500.
- Alice pays L$5,000 for a photo of Bob.
- You can add up to 10 photos to Owned, after purchasing additional photo slots with Lunch Money. To start adding photos, just click the "Add More Photos" tab.
- The rankings on the My Rank tab are calculated in the following ways:
The "Top People" ranking is measured by the sum of the purchase prices of all photos of each user.
The "Total Worth" ranking is based on the total sum of all photos owned by that user. - The rankings update with new information about every 15 minutes.
- More Lunch Money in 3 Steps...
- A good way to make more Lunch Money is to buy photos in Owned! of people you might like to connect with or of people you think will sell.
- If they don't sell after two days, use Cash Out to get back some of the Lunch Money you spent.
- Then, with that Lunch Money you just cashed out, buy more photos of people you might like or that you think will sell.
- On the Settings page, there is a setting for "Who can Own me?" If you don't want to be included in the Owned! application, just check the "Don't include me in Owned!" box. Make sure to click "Save" to confirm your selection.
Note: If one or more of your pictures have already been purchased, it will be necessary to remove them from your profile pictures. After opting out of Owned, you can post the picture(s) again. - Block them, and they will no longer be able to view your profile, post an autograph on your profile, send you private messages, comment on your battles, send you gifts, admire you, or own your images.
To block someone, go to his or her profile and click the "Block" link, which is located in the "Break It Off" box in the left-side column. - There's a daily limit for obtaining Lunch Money in this way. You can still earn Lunch Money by buying and selling photos, or by using other myYearbook applications -- and come back tomorrow for more photo-viewing Lunch Money!
- With the Cash Out feature, you can sell photos that aren't selling back to the house and get back a portion of the Lunch Money you spent. There are a few simple rules for Cash Out:
- Can only cash out a photo if it hasn't sold in 48 hours.
- Must have a Lunch Money balance less than L$1,500,000 to use Cash Out.
- You can only cash out L$250,000 per day.
- You can't cash out photos of yourself.
The amount you can Cash Out is based on the price of the photo:- L$1-5,000: Get 90% Back
- L$5,001-10,000: Get 80% Back
- L$10,001-50,000: Get 70% back
- L$50,001-100,000: Get 60% Back
- L$100,001-250,000: Get 50% Back
- Can only cash out a photo if it hasn't sold in 48 hours.
- When a photo is suddenly reset to L$1, it means that it hasn't sold in 48 hours and the previous owner has chosen to Cash Out. When this occurs, the price of the picture is reset to L$1 -- which means you can earn more Lunch Money as the price rises again!
- When a photo gets disowned in Owned, neither the purchasing user nor the owner of the photo is reimbursed.
- If you are unable to Cash Out a picture that you own, it is because one or more of the requirements have not been met:
- Can only cash out a photo if it hasn't sold in 48 hours.
- Must have a Lunch Money balance less than L$1,500,000 to use Cash Out.
- You can only cash out L$250,000 per day.
- You can't cash out photos of yourself.
- Can only cash out a photo if it hasn't sold in 48 hours.
- The person who uploaded the photo you bought may have removed that photo from myYearbook, or closed his or her account. Because of laws governing removal of content, we must remove the photo if the person who posts it wants it removed. That is just part of the game.
- In a 24-hour period:
- You can only bid in Owned 1,000 times
- You can only bid back and forth between two accounts on the same computer ten times.
If either of these limits is exceeded, transactions will be flagged for the remainder of the 24-hour period. - You can only bid in Owned 1,000 times
- Click the red "Report This Image" link at the bottom right of the inappropriate image.
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- Go to the Forgot Password page and enter your email address. Your password will be emailed to you.
- Click here for the full list of VIP Club Benefits.
Here are just a few of the benefits of joining the VIP Club …- Give VIP Gifts -- the ultimate, most customizable gifts anywhere. Dress your own Teddy Bear, pick your own Virtual Flowers, create a Love Note, or give the hottest Virtual Kisses
- Unlock exclusive VIP-only features in Battles, Match, Owned, Causes, Games, everywhere!
- More Lunch Money! Get DOUBLE or TRIPLE Lunch Money, and Million-Dollar Lunch Money allowances every month
- Get special access to the Mass Sender to send Gold Stars, Autographs, Flirts, Stickers and more to all your friends with a single click and to send friend requests to the people you want to meet
- VIP Badge on your profile
Click here for the full list of VIP Club Benefits - myYearbook profiles by default are available for other members of the myYearbook community to view. To restrict who can view your profile, click on the Settings link in the upper right-hand corner of the page. Under the "Privacy" tab is the setting "Who can view my profile?" Choose your desired level of privacy, then make sure to click the "Save" button to confirm your selection.
- To edit your profile information, click on the "Edit" link located on the right side of the "Basic" information tab. Here you will be able to update Basic, Personal, Contact, and Professional information.
- There are three ways to turn IM off.
To remove the IM bar entirely, choose one of these two ways:- Visit your homepage and click to turn IM off in the top right corner.
- Choose "Off" for your IM setting on the Settings page.
If you just want to log off temporarily, click to open your buddy list at the bottom right of any myYearbook page. At the top of the buddy list, click your name to change your IM status to Away or Busy, or to sign out of IM entirely. If you sign out, the IM bar will remain at the bottom right corner of the screen for you to sign back on whenever you want. - Attempting to customize the appearance of the profile by adding code to the "Whatever I Want" section can cause this. To fix it, remove any code in the "Whatever I Want" section that is used for altering the appearance of the profile.
- To access your Block List, click on the Settings link in the upper right-hand corner. Under the "Privacy" tab, click the "See which users you have blocked" link. You'll then see a list of everyone you've blocked; each one has a "Remove block" link so that you can unblock them if you choose.
To go directly to your Block list, click here now. - When a photo is suddenly reset to L$1, it means that it hasn't sold in 48 hours and the previous owner has chosen to Cash Out. When this occurs, the price of the picture is reset to L$1 -- which means you can earn more Lunch Money as the price rises again!
- If you have not received Lunch Money after completing a credit card payment, click the "Missing L$?" link found towards the top right of this page
In the overlay that comes up after you click "Missing L$", select the payment method, then give a brief explanation of what happened, and click "Submit." A Member Services Representative will get back to you within one business day.
