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s_devtoday at 12:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

I support the US->EU movement but I've been put off Mistral's Le Chat. https://european-alternatives.eu/

I subscribed (and paid) for a year of Pro. They gave me 1 month on the basis that a payment was missed on the second month. They simply stopped providing Pro and continued to take a monthly subscription for the next year (Stripe allows subscriptions to be fixed in the background). I must have changed cards that specific month.

I spoke to customer service who told me any sort of refund or complementary tokens was impossible and that I should have been paying closer attention to how much money I was giving them. So I shut down the subscription and now pay Claude $200 a month and deleted the account.

Genuinely was shocked at poor customer service can be with EU services sometimes compared to US ones. That said I will keep trying and exploring EU options, hopefully a new EU LLM giant emerges in the next few years.


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dannywtoday at 1:08 PM

There's pretty good consumer protection in the EU. I imagine consumer protection routes probably would apply here.

Definitely not really acceptable though nonetheless; you're a paying customer / subscriber that got 'scammed'...

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gitmagictoday at 12:57 PM

You should have asked the bank to do a chargeback of the transactions.

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