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Anthropic banned my thirteen 20x accounts, what now?

3•flipdin•1h ago
Firstly, FAFO, I get it.

I was using 13 Claude Code 20x subscriptions. Fable on ultra code.

First, yes it was excessive. Yes I was using ultra code for everything unnecessarily, just because I cbf and the cost/month was low for my business.

With that out of the way, Anthropic rejected my ban appeal.

It was all personal use, just me, doing stuff for my business, I have no employees.

Regardless, appeal rejected, no reason given, and any account I create now gets instantly banned.

I’ve tried using a VPN, and different credit cards, but my accounts get banned really quickly.

The thing that’s unclear, is what exactly is banned? My company? Me personally? My billing address?

Am I not allowed to create any new accounts? And what is it that makes them able to detect any new accounts.

I suspect it’s my chrome profile or something like that, that’s the last thing I’ve been unwilling to change just due to the amount of effort in converting.

Anyway, just looking for advice, I’m just wanting one working account.

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If you’re curious why I was using so many, it was just doing analysis of multiple Shopify stores, Google ads, meta ads, seo… Just a lot of iterations of statistical analysis for ecommerce stuff (stock forecasting, freight routing optimisation, freight aggregation, container load planning, accounting blah blah blah) many of these tasks were overkill, but running 10-15 Claude code terminals at one time, it was just easier to put everything on ultra so I didn’t have to hold Claude’s hand. Set a goal, define it really clearly, and let it run overnight.)

Comments

flipdin•1h ago
Oh and I’m using codex in the meanwhile, it’s pretty good, but just finding its overall planning to not be as good, and it seems to have a tendency to over engineer. Maybe it’s just prompting I need to change, but I’d really like just one account to do planning with Fable, then pass to codex.

(Also, before people say “just pay API pricing” - it’s not worth it for how much money I am earning. $2600usd/month I know seems like a lot, but if I switched to API usage, it would be 10x that.

lobito25•1h ago
What's your business?
flipdin•40m ago
I import physical products from China and sell them online in Australia. Would prefer not to disclose my niche, but it’s the equivalent of selling bedding/pillows. Nothing at all unique or interesting, the products are good and well priced though.
lucfranken•49m ago
Just out of curiosity: How did you mentally keep oversight of so many terminal doing things all around the place? Or is this done without too much oversight and do you just look at the results like sales volumes?
flipdin•42m ago
The terminals get a red background tint when they are running, and turn green when they are finished a task, amber if they need a response.

I’d always ask for a tldr, then just do some brief testing. Most of my prompts would run for an hour or more, so it was really just checking & responding to a few windows every hour while I do my other work.

It was always small tasks, given way too much compute, just so I could always be confident in the result. I always gave strict requirements, and if I was really lazy I’d say “iterate over this 10 times once finished, test everything, only come back to me with a blocker or if you have an extremely high level of certainty” some crap like that

It was a really lazy way to use AI, but it just worked well for me for the small tasks I needed to do, knew how, but wanted them automated, or if it was a once off - I just couldn’t be fucked, or busy with something else so I’d just ask a new terminal to do it.

Eg. My supplier is asking for sales forecast, fetch my sales from Shopify, look at seasonality from my stock-app and build a report and email to xxx@mysupplier.com - triple check it against Shopify, xero, report any anomalies

Then just blast that out on fable ultra code and it would rarely mess things like that up… I mean opus would hardly mess things like that up, but I’m just so short on time that I palm off any task I can, even tasks that might take just as long telling Claude but it’s much funner getting Claude to do it than repeating some process I’ve done a thousand times

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