Section 2(7)(ii) 4 The consideration may have been paid or partly paid or agreed to be paid in future. 9purpose’ does not include persons who bought goods ‘exclusively for the purpose of earning his livelihood, by means of self-employment’. The significance of this structural break down will be discussed shortly. 16. The carve out existed as part of the original enactment. However, the Explanation to Section 2(7) was inserted by amendment in 1993. 17. Judicial experience has shown us that the service providers most often than not take up a plea in their written version that the service obtained/goods bought was for a commercial purpose. For, if they succeed in their plea, the complainant is excluded from availing any benefit under the Act. According to Section 11, the District Forum has jurisdiction to entertain complaints ‘where the value of the goods or services and the compensation, if any, claimed does not exceed rupees twenty lakhs’. The expression ‘complaint’ is defined in