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Personally, I'm forever locked out of OpenAI.

I had the silly idea of trying to change the signin method of my account. Which isn't possible. So I figured to just delete the account and create a new one with the correct signin method.

Turns out they don't delete anything. Both the email address and phone number are held hostage. As you try to create a new account, it will point out that those are in use. I can easily change my email address but not my phone number, I only have one.

I've contacted support 4 times, but it's just bot replies. There's entire Reddit threads full of us perma-banned potential customers. Money in hand, but permanently locked out.

What a ridiculous company.




Stop making this so difficult. Just use a different phone number. There are sites to do this for literally $0.10.

But yeah whining on HN would be more productive


dahwolf is not making anything difficult. He or she is just using the support site for openAI, the one that actually works. /s


Use a 2nd email and google voice phone number




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