Is there any customer defense against arbitrary actions from merchants costing L$?

[arualblues]

The particulars of my question would be being ejected from a group that originally cost 500L$ to join, without having violated TOS, group rules, created any sort of problem in group chat, spammed or anything at all; ejected for personal reasons that are in no way related to the membership to this particular group.

I'm aware that group owners and merchants are free to eject whomever they want for whatever reason. Is there any way that customers who have paid Linden$ for the right to belong to a group can defend themselves from this kind of arbitrary action?

[Heart Brimmer]

Nope. LL does not get involved in Resident to Resident disputes. Sorry.

[arualblues]

So they can just rip off our money, and there's nothing we can do about it. Huh.

[Pixieplumb Flanagan]

Yup.  Presumably you have asked why you were ejected?  What reason was given?  There will have been a reason, as groups don't eject people for lols.

[arualblues]

The owner is not answering my messages, so that would be a nope.

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Yeah, group memberships that cost L$ have always been Purchaser be Wary!

Other reasons to be ejected include:

1) The disbanding of the group and thus the privileges that membership conveyed;

2) Someone complaining about you...

3) Just because -  [Remember any Land [Region & Parcel] Owner and Group owner may ban and eject you for any reason anytime or for no reason at all]

[Pamela Galli]

(Looking at the forum this wound up in) : Cue Twilight Zone theme....

[Syo Emerald]

No, you are on your own by that, because LindenLab does not get involved into disputes between residents and there is no ToS violation involved, because as you said, a group owner can eject whoever they want to. The 500L to join do not grant you any gurantee on staying in the group for forever.

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Yeah, group memberships that cost L$ have always been Purchaser be Wary!

Other reasons to be ejected include:

1) The disbanding of the group and thus the privileges that membership conveyed;

2) Someone complaining about you...

3) Just because -  [Remember any Land [Region & Parcel] Owner and Group owner may ban and eject you for any reason anytime or for no reason at all]