AWS sends me an invoice for $0.01 every month.
They send me an invoice for $0.00 and I cannot seem to convince them to stop
I'd get out the checkbook for this. It'd be worth a stamp on the off chance they actually tried to cash it.
You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you?
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Re: You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of a bank account I had in Australia back in 1999 (I think it was Commonwealth Bank). I'd opened it as I was there travelling for a year and it made EFTPOS (early payment by card) easier and cheaper than using my UK bank card. At the end of the year of travel, I went into the branch to close the account and they said I couldn't close it because I couldn't withdraw the remaining $2.11 because it was lower t…
Deposit $10 then withdraw $12.11? Sorry you had to go through that clusterf*.
Yeah, I guess there was an obvious alternative, but the bank had told me to just leave the account with the money in it and not worry about it. It was so little money I didn't really care and just did what they said, figuring that having the account might be useful if I ever returned.
Re: You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you?
#33"Here’s the part that actually gets to me as a Developer Advocate. When a student gets a surprise bill, they don’t usually think “I missed a step in my cleanup.” They think “AWS secretly charges you even after you delete stuff.” They tell their classmates and that becomes the narrative. I’ve heard it in person, on discord, etc. “Be careful with AWS, they’ll charge you for nothing.” It’s not cool because it can scare…
CIBC cost me $5 and a bunch of time trying to reverse a mistake that left me stranded in the middle of nowhere when I was pretty young. In the intervening 30 year I've made it my mission whenever their name comes up to make sure nobody uses them for anything, even free kids accounts.
I've cost them tens of thousands of dollars because they couldn't do the decent thing and apologize.
Re: You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you?
#34"Here’s the part that actually gets to me as a Developer Advocate. When a student gets a surprise bill, they don’t usually think “I missed a step in my cleanup.” They think “AWS secretly charges you even after you delete stuff.” They tell their classmates and that becomes the narrative. I’ve heard it in person, on discord, etc. “Be careful with AWS, they’ll charge you for nothing.” It’s not cool because it can scare…
I imagine the money lost from you, a conscientious consumer, is dwarfed by the money made from those who are less cognizant of their finances and even less willing to adhere to moral principles if it means less convenience in their life.
Re: You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you?
#35This sounds almost as hard as changing your email address on your Cursor account. I don't wish that experience on anyone. Anthropic is almost as bad, but at least they can be arsed to get back to you eventually.
For the uninitiated, both of them require you to make a new account, because apparently billion dollar corporations think a system that uses your email address as an immutable foreign key constraint is just fine.
Cursor won't let you bill out the outstanding API amount until the end of your subscription period, so you can cancel the account but it sits there able to be logged into and reactivated until your billing completes at the end of the billing interval. Getting a response to any sort of attempts to sort this out is pretty much yelling into the void. Really, your choice is to cancel the card if you get your email hacked.
At least Anthropic gets back to you and shuts it down manually, and I was even refunded my months subscription fees even though I didn't ask for it. But still a stupid, stupid way to change an email address.