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Anthropic customer support slammed over billing issues

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A Reddit user expressed significant frustration with Anthropic's customer support, citing an inability to upgrade their Claude Max subscription due to a payment issue. The user reported being unable to make a new payment or upgrade their plan for over a day, with Anthropic's system showing the payment as processing while their bank had not yet seen a debit request. Attempts to contact support yielded no human response for over 18 hours, leading the user to label the company's retail billing and customer service as "atrocious." AI

IMPACT Highlights potential friction points in user experience for AI service subscriptions.

RANK_REASON User-generated complaint about a company's service, not a product release or significant industry event.

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Anthropic customer support slammed over billing issues

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  1. r/Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/TheDarkKnight5388 ·

    Anthropic’s customer support is atrocious

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Trying to upgrade from Claude Max 5x back to 20x and I’ve been stuck for over a day because of a payment stuck in limbo.</p> <p>Claude says overdue. Stripe says payment processing. My bank says they don’t even see an actual debit request from the…

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