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dadamanga
11 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Got an email about a failed attempt to renew but my account shows as Basic and is empty
I had a paid account for many years. My credit card expired and I received an email saying:
We weren't able to charge you $11.99 for your Dropbox subscription. Please check your billing infor...
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
11 months agoHey dadamanga, thanks for posting to the Dropbox Community today!
Is it possible that you logged in to Dropbox using a different email address than the one this email about the renewal failure went to?
Because it does sound like you have two accounts.
Please check and let me know what you find!
- dadamanga11 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Hello Hannah, I checked both possible options, one is with the email address that the expired card email came to, and one with my current email address. They are both empty and have no files in them. Is there any way to contact support via email or any other means? You can see from the email that I received that I have a paid account...
- Hannah11 months ago
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for checking, dadamanga.
Actually, first I'd like to ask you to check the plan tab in the account settings, while signed in to both accounts, to make sure they're both free ones, because they might be empty, but they still could be paid ones.
So, you can use a normal browser window for one account and a private browsing/incognito for the other and go to https://www.dropbox.com/account/plan
Do both of them show as free Basic accounts?
- dadamanga11 months agoExplorer | Level 4
If I sign in to the account that is attached to the email address where I received the failed payment email, it shows as a free account. There are zero files stored in the account. It previously had hundreds of gigs. If I sign in to DropBox with my usual address in an incognito window, it also says I have a free account.
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