Learn more about public LAND sales at The Sandbox.
A LAND sale at The Sandbox grants the community with the opportunity to purchase a plot of LAND in the metaverse. A plot of LAND grants its owner many exciting opportunities and utilities, which you can learn more about on our What Can I Do With LAND page.
Prior to November 2022, LAND sales at The Sandbox took place on the Ethereum blockchain. However, as part of The Sandbox's efforts to become carbon-neutral and in making the metaverse more accessible, LAND sales from November 2022 onwards will take place on the Polygon blockchain.
Kicking off on November 17th 2022, The Sandbox is introducing a raffle system to its official public LAND sales. Also from this date, all future LAND sales will take place on the Polygon network, instead of Ethereum.
The Sandbox's LAND Sale Raffle system is actually the brainchild of its community. We have been listening, collecting, and discussing feedback and suggestions that the community has been giving us in prior LAND sales. Working from the community feedback and suggestions, we created a better and fairer LAND sale system, incorporating several of the community's most popular ideas.
To be eligible to participate in the LAND Sale Raffle, the following conditions need to be met:
A flagged account is defined as a user who was detected to be engaging or attempting to engage in fraudulent activity within The Sandbox, or otherwise acting in a way that violates the Terms of Use that the user accepted prior to registration. Flagged users can still log into their account, but have restrictions.
A banned account is defined as a user who was detected to be engaging in such activity, but on a more serious scale, or repetitively. Banned users cannot log into their accounts.
Entering the LAND Sale Raffle
The number of whitelist spots available in a LAND Sale Raffle depends on how many LANDs are in that particular sale. For example, if there are 100 LANDs in a sale, then there will be 100 whitelist spots available in the raffle.
To enter into the raffle, each potential buyer needs to accumulate raffle tickets. The more tickets you have, the greater the chance of winning a LAND Sale entry raffle. Every one ticket equals one chance of winning the raffle.
Sign up for the LAND Sale Raffle
1 ticket
Reached Level 5 in Alpha Season 1
20 tickets
Reached Level 5 in Alpha Season 2
20 tickets
Reached Level 5 in Alpha Season 3
20 tickets
Take note that ticket award rules may differ from sale to sale. Users will be informed of the exact ticket award rules in the LAND Sale's respective Medium articles, email newsletters, and social media announcements. Refer to these resources for ticket reward information specific to those sales.
To give an example, some LAND Sales may grant additional tickets for holding specific avatars or NFTs.
Winning the LAND Sale Raffle
Each LAND sale will include two waves, therefore two raffles - one wave & raffle for regular LANDs, and another wave & raffle for premium LANDs. The Premium LAND wave will begin before the Regular LAND wave.
You will be able to register for the raffle of both the regular and premium LAND sales. If you win a whitelist to participate in the Premium LAND wave for the current sale, you will not be able to participate in the regular LAND wave of that current sale - and vice versa.
Raffle winners will receive a pop-up on The Sandbox website when logged into their account. They will also receive an email.
Purchasing LANDs
Raffle winners will see a button on the LAND Sale webpage that will allow them to purchase LAND. You will be able to see the type of LAND you can purchase depending on which raffle you won, before confirming the transaction in your cryptocurrency wallet.
You will then be given a randomly selected LAND, by a completely impartial randomisation system. Raffle winners will not be able to manually select a specific LAND location themselves.
As long as you win the raffle and claim your purchase within 24 hours, you are guaranteed a LAND to purchase. All remaining LANDs that are not purchased by raffle winners within 24 hours of their raffle win will then be sold via a public auction, where those who did not win the raffle will have an opportunity to purchase LAND.
How to Purchase LAND in a LAND Sale
Before The Sale Starts
Step 1
If you have not done so already, register for an account at The Sandbox.
You will also need to connect a cryptocurrency wallet to this account. We recommend using a hardware wallet for extra security, but the choice is yours.
Once you are registered, you now need to go through the Know Your Customer (KYC) process. This is for security reasons, as well as to counter potential botting.
This process is automated and will take on average around 12 minutes.
However, if there is an issue with your ID documents, for example, if they are damaged or the automated system believes they are forgeries, the process could instead take 48 hours. This is avoided by following instructions correctly and not attempting to submit fraudulent documents.
Attempting to use false documents or documents that are not your own is a criminal offence known as fraud, which is punishable by very large fines and lengthy prison sentences in most countries. The Sandbox has the right to enforce actions against those attempting to commit fraud, including permanent bans from entering public sales and events.
Step 3
Ensure that you have the right amount of SAND in the wallet that you connected to your account, depending on the sale(s) you wish to enter the raffle for.
Regular LAND
Costs 1,011 SAND.
Is not close to partner ESTATEs, and does not come with additional NFTs.
Premium LAND
Costs 4,683 SAND.
Is close to or touching partner ESTATEs, and comes with additional NFTs.
You may only win one raffle
For example, if you win the Premium LAND Sale Raffle, you cannot win the Regular LAND Sale Raffle as well.
This SAND needs to be bridged to the Polygon network, if it is not already, or if you did not purchase it directly on the Polygon network.
The bridging process can take up to an hour - or potentially longer on busier congested days - The Sandbox has no control over congestion on the blockchain. So make sure your SAND is prepared long before the sale launches.
Entering The Raffle
Go to the LAND Sale page: https://sandbox.game/landsale. Then click the Enter Raffle button and select which raffle you'd like to join - the Regular LAND Sale, the Premium LAND Sale, or both.
Purchasing LAND
Step 1
Keep an eye on The Sandbox website and your email for a notification of whether you won the raffle. If you have, go to the LAND Sale webpage.
Step 2
Press the Buy LAND button to purchase a LAND.
Your cryptocurrency wallet will then pop open and ask you to confirm the transaction, including the gas fee. Sign to confirm the transaction if you are satisfied with it.
Step 3
Your wallet will now process the transaction on the blockchain, then deliver the LAND to your wallet if it is successful. The time it takes a transaction to process depends on the overall congestion on the blockchain at the time.
