Deletion of premium account assets after 60 days

I hate to add another question, but I find this a little bit distressing. From another thread (thanks, Robin!), I understand that a delinquent premium account holder will have all of their inventory erased after 60 days.

Let me get this straight. If I never pay a cent to enter Second Life, rack up 15,000 items in my inventory, then stop playing for 6 months...all my stuff will still be there when I log back in.

On the other hand, if I stupidly pay Linden Labs $9.95 a month for a year or two, then take a 60 day hiatus...when I come back, all my stuff will be gone, purged "because it uses valuable resources".

So basically, a resident who pays is penalized for not paying for a period of time, whereas a resident who never paid a red cent gets extra-special privileges. What about the valuable resources the paying premium member *paid for*, which the free residents consumed in overwhelming quantities to the detriment of the premium user?

Can I get this confirmed? And if I'm understanding this correctly, can I get an admission that this is a poor policy due for some review/correction?

Perhaps all premium members should get priority for bandwidth, asset server, and script execution privileges. Certainly, I don't feel very happy that my monthly fees are going towards lag inducing, sim crashing freeloaders at the same priority as my own activities. And in this particular case they receive even higher service levels (I.E.: indefinite inventory retention) than my own.

We only purge accounts that have been cancelled, or have been delinquent for an extended period of time (which means you owe Linden Lab money and haven't paid it).

If your account is in good standing, and you keep it active (i.e. don't cancel it), then it doesn't matter how much time goes by between logging in, when you come back everything will be there waiting for you.

Your point is taken, though, about server resources. We recognize that it makes sense to add value to premium accounts beyond the ability to own land, and offering bandwidth and inventory limits beyond those available to basic account holders is certainly one way to do that.