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  "path": "/t/1-060-in-prepaid-api-credits-expired-without-a-single-notification/1377889#post_5",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-30T20:05:50.000Z",
  "site": "https://community.openai.com",
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  "textContent": "OpenAI API has the typical corporate “terms and conditions”, including, “we can modify the terms any time we want”.\n\nhttps://openai.com/policies/service-credit-terms/\n\nPrepaid credits expiring has been there since they introduced and started forcing accounts to this in early 2024. That intentional breakage is there despite it being represented as real money not abstracted, and being directly used on an organization that requires personal identity verification, thus being directly linked as a consumer one-to-one service value store account.\n\nProfit and theft is built-in by design. The only way you will be able to proceed effectively is if you are in a jurisdiction where this business practice is directly outlawed, with government assistance or by direct citation of those laws, and that law carries significant threat to the operation of the company itself in that nation-state if customers are not satisfied.",
  "title": "$1,060 in Prepaid API Credits Expired Without a Single Notification"
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