H&R Block Opens Branch In SecondLife; Virtual Freakshows Line Up To Get Tax Advice
AllFinancialMatters reports that H&R Block is opening up H&R Block Island in SecondLife, where, according to the press release, there will be "digital tax professionals sharing free advice, providing access to the latest tax preparation products, and hosting tax-related events, tax time may never be the same."
Can we get some screenshots of this, please? The last time I was on SecondLife, the only things to do were gamble and watch badly-rendered avatars gyrate awkwardly on laggy dance floors. Some of that, and a giant robot, and H&R Block Island sounds like a rocking party. — SAM GLOVER
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Firebombing TK shortly...
HAHAHAHAHHA oh man people need to get off their damn computers and talk to real people
Ok, I tried SL once they had an OS X applications and...eeh..what is the big deal?
Maybe I'm too old and have had too much sex with actual people to be interested in this waste of time.
And just what I want, tax advice from the McDonalds of tax preparers in digital format where no record of the conversation can be kept. ("..but THEY said I could deduct depreciation my cat, they did!") You just know some 20-ish marketing twit at H&R told management this is the next big thing. Anyone remember eWorld? Yeah..I thought so...
Some how I doubt they will be any better then the "tax associates" that prepared my taxes this year. H&R block sucks, you would be better finding a local independent accountant to prepare your taxes.
I guess furries need tax advice too!
Am I missing out on something in this whole Second Life craze? It just seems a little bit bizarre to me, and I really am a gamer. I just don't get it.
I played around on SL a bit. Maybe I just don't have a fancy enough computer, but it didn't really seem thrilling to me. I managed to get my avatar pretty hookerish looking. Maybe I can resurrect her and get some tax advice while practicing my virtual dance moves?
@bluebuilder, @itmustbeken: C'mon, who doesn't enjoy pretending to be a hermaphroditic tiger/dragon hybrid who likes to have sex with diapers on?
That's really the only reason for SL's existence, as far as I can tell. Might explain why your average gamer doesn't so much get it. On the other hand, I might join just for the spectacle of Hermie the Flying Tiger asking some poor CPA about tax shelters.
For Bluebuilder and others,
It's not really a game so much as a giant 3d chat room with delusions of being the Metaverse (which was kinda the same idea, only bigger, more scalable, and with a point).
As a veteran user of two years. I find it an excellent place to burn off ADHD (that would otherwise be burned off, obviously, by committing street crimes) and do things I can't do in venues such as World of Whatever. Like build my own stuff, make it work, and, the kicker, make money off of it.
It's not perfect, and the management is clueless, but for the time being it's all we have in it's genre of MMOs. It has a little bit of a learning curve and has the worst introduction / tutorial ever, but if you can survive, you'll learn to love it. :D
As for HR giving Tax Advice.... something really scares me about that altogether.
I won’t be posting a lot to this blog in the next few days, as Ben Popken asked me to fill in for him at the Consumerist while he bakes his pasty whiteness during a much-needed vacation.