These weren’t “promotional credits”. These were compensation for theft.
People experienced immediate outage and emptying of purchased credits because of OpenAI’s mistaken implementation, taking a weekly usage in just a few chat turns.
Depriving people of the subscription service being billed.
Then users sent you even more money, either tenfold in subscription or in a new “pay up, buying credits to continue using” - to have it emptied again.
Context
Real money being expended, to only get further limitation:
I’m not even searching hard for those that paid in, acquiescence to your ploy.
This near-immediate expiration of compensation, for services unrendered and paid balances emptied, compensation that was still removed fast by unfixed bugginess at a high rate: Preposterous. A fitting conclusion:
This is where the buck (and your bucks) stops: