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0 pointshyperhopper2y ago0 comments

You're not giving them 6 months. You're giving them 1 day, before they may end up even seeing the email and getting charged against their will. Even if they do see the email, 1 day is not enough for a change of service notification that would require a migration.

This is disgusting extortioniate behavior that would make me reconsider doing business with Vercel.

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ai_what2y ago· 1 in thread

Yeah this is strange. If they are using, lets say $1000 in credits per day, then they will be charged $700 starting tomorrow. Like you said, they might not even see the email yet.

leerob2y ago

This isn't the case. If they received this email, it was because they were under the included credits amount. This way, even if they missed the email, they will have six months and we will continue to follow up. If you have a sponsorship, feel free to reach out to me and we can talk about it.

fabian2k2y ago

I'd agree that going from a free plan to a discounted plan but with unlimited potential for additional charges is an extremely problematic change. I would even suspect that any additional charges would not be enforceable here directly after the switch, but simply putting open source projects into a position where they face this danger if they didn't read their inbox for a day or didn't want to just shut down their infrastructure immediately is a rather hostile move.

number62y ago

They get 300$ per month free credit for 6 months - but the 1 day notice is to short imho

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