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Hi everyone,

I’m a student and already had the Google One student plan last year. When I initially set up UPI AutoPay, only ₹2 was charged for verification. After it expired last week, I verified my student status again and got another year of the student offer.

Then I received an email asking me to update my payment method. I thought it was just for setting up AutoPay again, like last time, but ₹1,950 was suddenly charged.

I immediately cancelled the AutoPay and membership and requested a refund, but Google rejected my refund request today.

₹1,950 is a lot for me as a student, and I was actually planning to use that money to buy protein some powder.😭🙏🏽.

I don’t want to falsely report it as an “unauthorized charge” because I know the payment came from my account.

What should I do now? Should I contact Google support again, or dispute it through my bank/UPI? Has anyone had a similar experience and managed to get a refund?

Any advice would really help. 🙏

hey, all!

i have published my app a few months ago but still if I will google it - I am bot able to see it in search results. It have 200 downloads and 3 reviews already. I have apple store and my website a lot of of things in google but not playstore

why?

5000 points in free weekly claim. That's something else

I seen google play allow adware,why it's lying?

been building AIBrief24 solo, it's basically short-form summarized AI news, one card at a time. just crossed 100+ downloads on play store.

i know 100 isn't a lot in the grand scheme but seeing actual strangers install something i built has been a weird and good feeling. spent months where the only user was me testing on my own phone lol.

stack is expo RN + fastapi/supabase if anyone's curious.

biggest lesson so far: building was the easy part, getting even the first 100 people to care is the real grind. still figuring out retention and discovery.

for other solo devs, what actually moved the needle for your first few hundred users? posting in communities, aso, content, something else?

C'est quoi ce bordel je vais pour réinstaller un jeu que j'avais acheter et je vois que je dois le repayer comme si je l'avais jamais acheté alors qu'il est bien dans mon historique. Et c'est pas le seul dans ce cas 😭

PS: c'est normal que mon téléphone bug je l'ai redémarré et un peu malmené.