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Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#71

"I need to let you know that we are unable to issue compensation for degraded service or technical errors that result in incorrect billing routing." Not sure I've ever seen a company openly take this position. This is a crazy policy.

In many countries, this also isn't legally tenable.

Anything they say is legal until a judge says it's not.

And to get to that point, you need to be willing to spend a lot more than 200$.

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#73

Anthropic employee here (opinions are my own): the response " [...] However, I need to let you know that we are unable to issue compensation [...]" was, as you imagined, generated by Claude. I don't like it, but can't do much about it.

> I don't like it, but can't do much about it.

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right" - Henry Ford

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#74

Anthropic employee here (opinions are my own): the response " [...] However, I need to let you know that we are unable to issue compensation [...]" was, as you imagined, generated by Claude. I don't like it, but can't do much about it.

A little human touch goes a long way with customer service and sales. Sorry your management makes you guys look so bad. But yea I am done with anthropic as well. No offense to you all actually making the thing.

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

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post #25
post #3

> However, I need to let you know that we are unable to issue compensation for degraded service or *technical errors* that result in incorrect billing routing. This is very surprising. I've never seen a legitimate business not give refunds for technical errors of their own fault. Minimum Anthropic should credit the full amount to them.

Maybe Anthropic is just testing the waters to see what they can get away with. Left unchallenged (court, charge back, whatever) why change course?

because they want people to trust them and continue to use their services. being a shitty business to deal with will eventually bite them, its not like they are the only choice.

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#76
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in. What's next?

Local LLMs. Krasis is one such tool that allows large models using blended GPU/RAM. ik_llama for better performance than llama. ComfyAI for local image generation. Nanocrab seems better for orchestration. Still need a good system capability firewall.

Who’s buying the memory for this effort?

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#77
post #56

I recently had my automatic reload double charge me $100. I tried reaching out to Anthropic, but my only option (of course) was a chat agent. After going through a conversation with it, I was told someone would reach out to help with the matter. Never happened. I eventually reached out to my credit-card company and did a dispute, which they just ruled in my favor.

I once had PayPal refuse to give me my money back (for a delivery) for months even though the postal service status clearly stated: "Address unknown, returning to sender."

I should have denied the PayPal charge on my bank account, that always gets a real human to look into it. Lesson learned.

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#78

Anthropic employee here (opinions are my own): the response " [...] However, I need to let you know that we are unable to issue compensation [...]" was, as you imagined, generated by Claude. I don't like it, but can't do much about it.

You could quit, for starters

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#79
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly what small claims court is for. Small claims court is exempt from arbitration requirements (which are primarily aimed at avoiding class action suits). It doesn't require you to hire a lawyer, and probably won't get your account automatically nuked the way a credit-card chargeback would.

I don't think you even need to go that far. Just refute the charges with your credit card. Very high likelihood of a successful refund since they already acknowledged their error in writing.

There's a fundamental power imbalance: if you do this to any service, they will likely ban your account. So the monetary reward has to be enough to merit moving all your data and workflows off them in advance and never using them again.

Re: HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

#80
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly what small claims court is for. Small claims court is exempt from arbitration requirements (which are primarily aimed at avoiding class action suits). It doesn't require you to hire a lawyer, and probably won't get your account automatically nuked the way a credit-card chargeback would.

I don't think you even need to go that far. Just refute the charges with your credit card. Very high likelihood of a successful refund since they already acknowledged their error in writing.

I would be that would be highly unlikely to succeed. I have tried to dispute charges with my credit card for similar issues, and they always side with the business. I don’t think I they even check.
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