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I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

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Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

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Thanks, I hope so too!

If it's a money issue then file a charge back with your credit card. That generally gets someone's attention.

See the other commenter/thread that recommended I do this. I'm worried that by doing a chargeback, I will be blacklisted from using Anthropic's services, which I feel like is a reasonable assumption.

Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

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Large corporations have been downsizing on QA and CS roles since before the LLM era. For many of those companies the lack of proper QA leads to more problems for users which compounds the lack of available CS staff. It's called either enshittification or maximizing shareholder value, can't remember which.

Why not both? ;)

Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

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Have you tried suieng then in small claims court? They skimp in being a real company with real legal support by burning infestor capital, because staff attorney salaries are accounted for much harder than individualized lawsuits from practices not directly resolved next lay period.

Most people who commit wire fraud weren't socially bullied and criticized enough before their professional positions to keep in line legally. Useless failures.

Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

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I wouldn't hold your breath. It seems like the only way to get an actual human response is by complaining on Twitter/X and hoping that Boris Cherny responds. https://x.com/bcherny

I even wrote it not only per email but also in the "in-chat feedback" system (you can add a text to a response) Also on LinkedIn they are siltent - I reached out to one of their sales reps, no response. Maybe in the end we will have "Google-class" support?

> I even wrote it not only per email but also in the "in-chat feedback" system

Yeah, I did the same. Before falling back to sending an email to support@mail.anthropic.com (which my blog post references), I had 3 separate Fin AI in-chat convos trying to get in touch with someone. All of them defaulted to the "ask for a refund" workflow that only applies for subscriptions and left me more frustrated than anything.

Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

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I had a similar thing happen where I was looking to recover funds from unexpected extra usage charges and got went through an identical experience.

I realize the company barely has time to cash checks, but failing to handle small fry reasonable charge disputes should be handled appropriately.

Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

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This sucks but is not surprising at all. Anthropic has more demand than it could ever fulfill, and looking into support tickets asking for refunds is never going to get anyone’s attention. If you actually want the money back, assuming you live in the US, this is what small-claims court is for.

Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue

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I tried their Pro plan on March 1 and immediately noticed how bad their usage limits were, so I asked for a refund that same evening.

Their chatbot accepted the request, I was downgraded to the free plan immediately, and since then I have been waiting for the money.

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