Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The post says refunds were once issued for banned accounts, but relay stations reselling Claude and distillers gamed bulk account pools and refunds, so the no-refund policy now hits ordinary users.

With their Claude account banned, the author let another model pick up unfinished work, found the result far worse, and had it rolled back.

A roundup of lessons from banned users: don't claim official credits, click reward or survey links, apply to Startups, switch nodes, or set a Beijing timezone.

The user says their Claude account has remained stable since they started using it, attributing bans mainly to relying on poor-quality proxy nodes.

The user says that after being banned by Claude two months ago they moved to GPT, finding it more reliable for architects and senior devs while Claude tends to improvise.

The author reports that after cleaning their environment and with an IP purity score of 77, clicking sign up for Claude got the account banned immediately.

A commenter cites prior cases of Japanese developers banned after traveling to China, questions where Anthropic draws the line, and criticizes not refunding a full year of subscription.

The poster says creator Damon was banned by Claude for temporarily working in China with no refund, and that two of their own accounts were also banned.

The poster says their Claude account was banned 17 minutes after paying for membership, compares DeepSeek's escalating bans, and laments that surviving to month-end is now the scarce AI resource.

A user who just subscribed to Claude Max at $100 worries after reading that someone was banned the day after upgrading, hoping their location in Bali keeps them safe.

A developer whose main stack is Cursor paid for a $100 Claude plan to try video work and had a year-old account banned.

The poster says their 18 Claude accounts survive, warns against one proxy client for unstable connections, and notes they were banned after asking Claude to fix it.