Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Shares a copy-paste English refund request for Apple: the account was suspended without explanation after payment, so the subscription is unusable.

An indie developer vents that Claude bans strike mid-coding, appeals take a week, and some users lost three accounts or were banned right after renewing.

A reply argues a friend's Claude account used for content and testing must have violated user policy, otherwise it wouldn't have been banned.

The author says all 12 of his Claude accounts are alive, pushes back on quick ban post-mortems, and open-sources a setup he says takes ten minutes plus a beginner tutorial.

Registering Claude through a US-IP machine avoided the usual instant ban, but the payment step demanded a photo of a government ID, which the author calls excessive.

A user forced to re-login to Claude Desktop after a day offline fears a repeat of last time, when re-login led to a ban email and unrecoverable subscription fees.

Explains that lower IP risk scores are cleaner and that Claude bans often start with IP checks, warning shared IPs are most likely to get linked bans.

A viral post claims Claude now allows China registration, UnionPay payments and appeals for banned accounts, but Anthropic's supported-region list still excludes mainland China and Hong Kong.

The poster says a friend registered for Claude today and they are waiting to hear it got banned, with one hour already passed.

A reply praises a service offering flexible 10-day Claude accounts, framing short-term rentals as a way to avoid account bans.

On day one of abandoning GPT for a Claude environment, a user posts to test how long it takes before their account gets banned.

Responding to accusations of double standards, the author says they pay for Codex and Claude and have had four Claude accounts banned.