Late Tier

The lindens will freeze a premium account after 7 days of tier non-payment, for whatever reason, whether it is their fault or the customers fault. Of course, they put the whole responsibility on the customer, even when their flawed billing system is in error. If a customer has been paying tier, some hefty tier amounts, for years, and all of a sudden there is a problem with billing, the account will be frozen, along with all other alt accounts that they can find. This puts the customer in a tough position of risking losing their inworld business and/or land, without the means to come inworld to try to either rectify the situation by earning more lindens, or cashing in existing lindens in the account, or whatever. Free account including bots never have to worry about such a thing. The answer is for everyone to go free, get rid of their land holdings, and use the service just for fun and socializing. An alternative would be that after seven days of non-payment, the lindens would simply sieze the land and use it to pay the tier fee if after one month the balance owed was not rectified. It is amazing to me that so many restrictions are put onto paying customers, when half the time the billing problem is not the fault of the customer. I have on numerous times been a few days late in paying tier because my credit card company does not honor the charge. THEY DO NOT TRUST LINDEN LAB, or their billers, thinking the charge is fraud.
So perhaps I will go free, after three years of supporing the service through my premium fee and tier fee, and never have to worry about losing anything, continuing to use the service to socialize and hang out.