go ahead and drop me, i have a hard head

last week i mentioned that lots of old in-world stuff had been returned to me from Second Life (mainly from the sims sold last february and also from my dumpy little Linden home)

i downgraded my membership back when Linden Lab fired a third of its work force and had to hassle with Live Chat to be able to downgrade (the website would not allow me to select “basic” and kept giving me an error)

once downgraded and once i had taken out any remaining Linden $, i removed my billing info =)

naturally, i thought everything was fine. i have not logged into SL for 5 months now

but just when i think SL can’t be any more douchie toward me . . .

This email is notification that we were unable to bill your Second Life account on July 28, 2010.

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. Failure to resolve this billing issue by the end of the probation period may result in the cancellation of your account.

i think this is billing for land holdings from the Linden home which should have been removed from me when my account was downgraded but probably show as “peak land holdings”. seems like simple app logic in their billing software would go “has Linden home as part of premium membership = yes” and “account downgraded to basic – remove Linden home and land”

if LL wants to cancel me, go for it – like Lalo Telling wrote in this excellent post:  ”. . . or Ener Hax’s dissolution of her holdings last winter. After a while, it just stops making sense to keep paying for the privilege of being shat upon.”

amen Lalo!