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by acqq 5775 days ago
> one renewal notification email for what is obviously a critical service.

And preserved all his mails.

> I'd rather receive a clear and concise notice email.

He ignored it.

> Put a renewal notification in the Gmail UI

He already said he doesn't use web interface

> Respond with a transient full inbox failure

The mails bounced as he already used up immense amount of storage which he didn't pay.

> instead of a permanent failure

But they preserved all his immense gigabytes piled up in 6 years of his e-mail.

> OP in this case is somewhat technical

He gets 600 e-mails per day, as his main work, and doesn't want to even pay regularly for the service.

> but if this had happened to my mom, my grandparents

Because your mother or grandparent is also "an entrepreneur," gets 600 e-mails per day and has much more than seven gigabytes in gmail?

He just trolls to get the attention.

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Your statements are valid, but I'm not that concerned with the character of the OP or the exact details of his situation.

The point I'm trying to make is that Google could have done a lot more to prevent situations like this with very little extra cost to them. Sure, technically Google doesn't owe this guy anything, but I think there is a lack of empathy on Google's part here and it's one of the reasons they are struggling with social.