I strongly advise against selling them. It's very likely against their terms of service to either sell (or buy) such credits. It's not something we want to facilitate on WIP either.
September is a long time from now. Maybe you can use it as push to build a OpenAI-powered product and "sell" them that way? (i.e. by wrapping useful functionality around them).
I would look at it differently. You never truly owned the credits to begin it. It's always been OpenAI's, but they let you use their service free of charge a bit to give you some leeway to build up your business.
I don't mind leaving the post up. As it's an interesting discussion I think. But if you prefer to have it removed I can do that
When OpenAI switched to the credit system a little bit ago they changed it so all credits you purchase expire within a year. Their models are so cheap I essentially just waste around $3 a year because I only ever use $2 ish of usage every year, and the minimum you can buy is $5.
Pretty dumb. It would be like if you bought a gift card and then your giftcard expired after a year.
I strongly advise against selling them. It's very likely against their terms of service to either sell (or buy) such credits. It's not something we want to facilitate on WIP either.
September is a long time from now. Maybe you can use it as push to build a OpenAI-powered product and "sell" them that way? (i.e. by wrapping useful functionality around them).
Fair point... it's would just be a shame to lose it all... Also noticed Anthropic have the same one year expiration, I'll have to use this one too.
PS: Let me know if you prefer me to remove this post completely.
I would look at it differently. You never truly owned the credits to begin it. It's always been OpenAI's, but they let you use their service free of charge a bit to give you some leeway to build up your business.
I don't mind leaving the post up. As it's an interesting discussion I think. But if you prefer to have it removed I can do that
Edited the post to orient it less towards "selling".
I understand your point of view, but it's heartbreaking to see $100 you paid just disappear if you haven't used it in a year.
I thought there was some rules in Europe that credits needed to have a minumum of 2 years or something
Oh sorry I didn’t realize you paid for these. I assumed they were free credits.
If you paid, I’d just ask them for a refund or extend the validity.
That was there response, even when asking for a refund or something
Wow okay that's really bad
Yep...
This is like gift cards that expire. Lots of countries have protection against it but openai clearly doesn't care.
Yeah... Learned it the hard way 😅
When OpenAI switched to the credit system a little bit ago they changed it so all credits you purchase expire within a year. Their models are so cheap I essentially just waste around $3 a year because I only ever use $2 ish of usage every year, and the minimum you can buy is $5.
Pretty dumb. It would be like if you bought a gift card and then your giftcard expired after a year.