You guys do realize that linden gives you plenty of warnings and time AFTER payment is due to "update" your payment information if you do so happen to forget or a cc expires. it's not like its due on 13th and bam its off on 13th. You get emails telling you payment failed(a few of them actually) and the emails even contain information about whether it was expired or just plain failed. I know because I use a 1 time payment card every month and I forget every month to put a new card number in and guess what I even ignored the emails for days after payment was due. Here is an experp:
"Don't worry; this billing failure will not prevent you from logging on with your Second Life account. We will simply try to bill your overdue balance again the next day. If we are unable to collect the amount due within seven (7) days, your account will be suspended pending payment for an additional thirty (30) days. During that time, you will not be able to log in to Second Life. Alt accounts may be placed into administrative hold and you may be logged out of active sessions during this time as well. Failure to resolve this billing issue by the end of the probation period may result in the cancellation of your account." If you check your email less then 1 time every 37 days I don't even know why you have a premium account on a game you obviously don't play enough to get your monies worth. Now all this being said Not only has this off-topic thread gotten off of its own topic I believe a few of us on a few occasions asked for this to be moved to a more appropriate forum. It clouds the actual on topic discussions of this particular list and has nothing to do with it. So please do so. We're all adults and everyone keeping this going should understand this simple concept. On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Marine Kelley <marinekel...@gmail.com> wrote: > At least the land and inventory are not gone, automatically downgrading to > basic would make the lands be abandoned... way to even more drama. To me the > user should not even be locked out of the grid, but I understand that there > are technical difficulties to making a premium be considered as basic until > the funds are available again, and let's not forget that if you are premium > and in this situation, then you do owe LL money. This is different than > being simply basic. > > The only issue is that the user is ALSO locked out of their SL webpage. To > me that makes no sense at all, because that's how they could access tickets > and get some help, or downgrade to basic, or change credit card info (what > if the original credit card has been stolen and the user blocked it ? That's > not valid grounds to lock them out of SL and yet they can't change their > credit card info through the SL webpage anymore). Locking them out of the SL > website simply discourages them from even trying to sort things out, and LL > loses money in the process. > > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
