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- while trying to recover massive debt switch to OpenAI they seem.by blikdak
- Anthropic has always been hostile to users. I had better luck with a competitor.by OutOfHere
- My goto approach would be to ask an AI to investigate. They can get a surprisingly long way in troubleshooting networking, doing web research, etc. and will even decompile Claude Code to work out what the issue is. It's easy to underestimate what AI agents can do. If you can't use Claude to do this then pick OpenAI or Grok, etc.by jumpalongjim
- From the post I think his issue is server-side, no?by ofjcihen
- UPDATE:
Its solved - somehow "magicly" in the background, we didnt receive any answer.
Today, I checked and it worked.
Maybe someone in the background read the FinAI Chatbot complaint :-)
- I asked Fin to escalate my issue to a real human once I realized it was a chatbot. The real human helped me with my issue.by novia
- I can't add prepaid credits to my account, because whenever I try, they try to authorise a zero balance transaction, I approve it but my bank then rejects the real value. This happens across two banks.
But that's a good thing, I have come to rely less on their agent and use the competition more.
- For whatever reasons we cant also add credits with any of our payment methods (all are full charge-card CCs)
- Help to solve; subscribe to Enterprise and pay for support contract.by kay_o
- Haha, good one! :-D
Actually, this was what we already discussing this morning, because this was our assumption, too :-))
- I would be cautious about relying on proprietary platform features from any AI vendor right now. They all have scaling headaches, and also are in the middle of mass feature churn.
For must work company services, I'd require multi-vendor/multi-model routing if it's any sort of automation, and if its more SaaS, lean towards a service with selectable backend provider/model for misc office work. Self hosted is nice for some situations too.
by digikata - Have sex with an/multiple Anthropic employee(s) to get your account unlocked.
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by blitzar - My account was wrongly billed as I had cancelled the subscription in time. So I reached out to support to get it rectified. It’s a bot called Fin. Fin became judge, jury, and executioner and closed my attempts to raise the issue with an automated response that the charge was good and I couldn’t escalate (tried multiple times). Wrote to two of their support emails, both attempts met the same fate, those were also handled by bots. Absolutely no way of reaching a human being at the paper trillion dollar company.
When I discussed this with a friend he suggested I should try AI coding plans via third party vendors (who at least offer bare minimum human support even with considerable delay) and also shared his personal grandfathered GLM API key (he’s not using that; and the plan is good for few more months; already paid). I really can’t complain. I have noticed zero quality or productivity dip. Even response time is very close to Claude, but less. I can live with that.
Anyone suggesting we should ask the AI to dig deeper, they haven’t met Fin.
by shelled - Thanks for the idea with going through a token-reseller, that maybe a better option for SME like us
- This is the experience quite a few of my bigger clients are running into and let me tell you they aren’t small. It’s quickly becoming a very oft-repeated reason in meetings that they want to move away from Anthropic.
To be fair, being who they are, they can get a human if they try long enough. But that human is also unhelpful so it’s just not worth it.
And I agree with the other comment here saying to just perform a charge back. You don’t get to keep my money because you created a firewall of incompetence.
by ofjcihen - I don't understand, were you charged after cancelling your subscription or can't subscribe? If you were charged after cancelling your subscription stop faffing about with their ai bots, and dispute it with your bank.
If you can't subscribe, there are other providers.