The kicker? When you get downgraded to the Free tier, they don't offer any support beyond the AI bot. You have to go through some hoops to get it to open a support ticket to maybe talk to a human in 4-5 weeks. Unbelievable.
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
#82Every conference talk on this stuff seems to suggest that we're all way behind the curve on AI implementation, but I suspect its mostly smoke and mirrors and mechanical turks. My company invests heavily in automated IVR and chat responses and we still optimize for getting the customer to a real agent. Those agents are largely overseas BPOs, but at least that's better than an AI loop that gets you nowhere.
Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
#83I 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.
Did you follow up? You might need to do it again before charge back. Thankfully that's not Google, so your life is not going to be turned upside down because they don't give a f*.
Now I have submitted a reclamation request to my bank and am waiting for a response.
Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Issue a chargeback.
It's important to remember that a chargeback should be considered the nuclear option, and, when using it, one should be comfortable with the possibility that one might never do business with this company again, since it could result in being blacklisted (even if one is, in fact, in the right). I'm not saying not to do it, but one should keep in mind the potential repercussions.
All we can do is submit a dispute to the bank. The bank will then investigate (however they do that), and eventually act (in whatever way they choose -- which may include a chargeback).
It may seem pedantic, but it's an important detail. Chargebacks are ugly. They constitute red flags on merchant accounts, and with enough of those red flags their own rates are affected (or worse).
Nobody wants chargebacks. Banks don't want them (they take time, and therefore money, to deal with). Vendors certainly don't want them. And consumers don't want them, either -- they just want to be made financially whole, however that happens.
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I had a problem once with a local record store where I got charged twice for one purchase. I loved that store very much (I grew up buying my music there), and at no point did I think that they would ever deliberately rip anyone off. But somehow after repeated phone calls and at least one visit, nobody I talked was able to either fix the problem or hand it over to someone who could.
So, in desperation: I called the bank and asked for help. I told them what had happened, and what I'd tried to do to resolve it, and they told me I could file a dispute and they would investigate. So that's what I did.
The next afternoon, I got a phone call from the store's very apologetic bookkeeper. He informed me that he'd received a call from my bank, and that he'd fixed the problem by refunding both of the charges, asked if that made me satisfied, apologized profusely again, and thanked me for my business.
That was a little bit above-and-beyond on the humbleness scale, but whatever. My problem was more than fixed and my fondness for the business was completely restored.
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Anyway, back to the point about being pedantic with nomenclature: All I did was file a dispute, all the bank did was make a phone call to the right person, and all the vendor did was fix the problem.
No chargeback took place.
Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
#85It forwarded my request which was then answered by an open claw agent :/
Still waiting for a response two weeks later.
Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
If a business attempts to steal from me I instantly charge back and the onus is on them to prove that I owe them money. I do this all the time and have never been blacklisted.
I don't think it's helpful to think about this as the company "trying to steal from you". There is no intention here. It's just something that got lost in a bad IT system. You gain nothing from issuing a chargeback. You imperceptibly nudge some statistic and a "banned for life" flag might automatically get flipped in a database. There's no righteous comeuppance here. You try to contact support, pester them a bit, cal…
You don’t think it’s funny how the mechanism for taking the money is never broken?
Work with a large company who won’t pay your 30 or 45 day invoice for 90 days before you broadly decide this.
Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who keeps claiming these models are meant to replace engineers?
OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic, Google, MSFT, Spotify, Duolingo and NVidia - those are the ones that come immediately to mind. They're either selling the AI (or the tools to make the AI) or hoping against all hope that they're on the right side of bubble history. If we soften the claim to "increase engineer productivity" I think something like 70% of engineers would also agree. If you tack on "if applied wisely" then you'll…
Re: I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Did you get the API credit? Maybe it's a wash?