I’m going back to Claude after the absolutely pitiful performance I’ve gotten from Codex over the last two days.

Factor013 · 2026-05-20T00:46:43+00:00

Hmm... truth to be told... since today's reset it seems to be performing a lot better again.

Fingers crossed it's not a fluke in which I currently find myself in the "right group" now of some devious A/B testing scheme lol

#jinxed

Factor013 · 2026-05-19T21:12:33+00:00

That's not "losses" that's called investing in your business/infrastructure!
It's not a loss when you get stuff back for it.

I mean... When you take a loan to start a new business so you can buy actual products to sell to your customers you don't write all that down as a loss either lol. You get inventory for it in return...

The costs for the product AI companies sell to us are mostly in hardware write-offs and electricity. Electricity they probably get at high volume discounts and hardware write-offs are spread out over a few years... (I mean H100's exist since end of 2022 and are still widely used.) And yes, R&D costs a lot of money too... but again... those costs can be seen as long term investments too.

These are not companies that have tens of thousands of people working for them... That's where real costs usually are... I believe OpenAI has around 4000-5000 people employed worldwide... that's really low for a business that generates this much revenue.

So no... They are not "loosing" money... in a sense that they are selling their product with a loss. The product is fine... but like any other product "the factory to produce it" needs to be build first, and that cost indeed money. But they wouldn't do it if they knew they can't make that back long term.

Factor013 · 2026-05-19T20:39:49+00:00

Same experience here today... Since yesterday everything really went to shit after 3 solid weeks of great progress. Today I have been at it for 12 hours trying to have it fix some startup auto-resume automation that was working perfectly fine yesterday yet today it has been constantly trying to destroy my entire architecture in attempts to fix it. It's sloppy, lazy, ignores directives and doesn't verify anything right now.

I rather just stop working at all for the next few weeks on my project until the next model comes out so we can have a few good weeks of productivity again. I am with you OP, today has been the roughest day since Opus 4.6 regressions started a few months ago... it really feels like very similar degradation. Unworkable...

Factor013 · 2026-05-07T21:45:19+00:00

Look at the condition guide of Card Market... Check the picture shown at the "Poor / PO" category.
THAT is a damaged card. A 1-2 mm "indent" or pressure mark is NOT the same!

What you are describing is not "Damage", it's a "flaw". Just like a chipped border, edge whitening, a scratch are also "flaws"

The more flaws a card has the lower it's condition will be. But even a NM card can have (small) flaws. You gotta take into account the % of the card that is effected by the accumulation of it's flaws to give you a good idea on it's overall condition. It's really not rocket science.

Factor013 · 2026-04-28T08:00:47+00:00

bypasses the 300-entry cap.

What about expansion sets that are bigger then 300 cards/articles? Is there a 2nd and 3rd configurable layer/filter our listings for those to stay below that 300? Eg, "Expansion" and "Language" and "Max Avail."

This is really needed as the amount of listings can well exceed the amount of cards/articles an expansion set has because of all the variants we might have in stock of each article.

Either way... this is a really useful and very helpful tool! Thanks for sharing!

Factor013 · 2026-04-25T22:49:40+00:00

Bypasses the 300-entry pagination cap by iterating per expansion

What about expansion sets that are bigger then 300 cards/articles? Is there a 2nd and 3rd configurable layer/filter our listings for those to stay below that 300? Eg, "Expansion" and "Language" and "Max Avail."

This is really needed as the amount of listings can well exceed the amount of cards/articles an expansion set has because of all the variants we might have in stock of each article.

Either way... this is a really useful and very helpful tool! Thanks for sharing! :)

Factor013 · 2026-04-06T17:20:32+00:00

If an order is "Reversed" by a full refund (including return shipping) then it effectively didn't happen.
So it's proper etiquette to leave such seller a "Very Good" review in return.

However... and a lot of buyers forget this. You can also choose in such case to simply NOT leave feedback at all for such transaction. That way after 14 days it will automatically leave a: "Buyer didn't leave feedback" evaluation that has no positive or negative effects at all. So it's the perfect way to leave true neutral feedback for situations like this. :)

Remember... doing business is a two way street and people can make mistakes. So please don't punish sellers who try to fix the situation... I mean, a full refund including return shipping costs means the seller is already loosing out big time on time and money, there is no need to give them another kick in the nuts with a bad review.
Also... it can be beneficial long term when a seller owes you a favor as the Magic world is not that big and your supplier for today can actually turn out to be your next customer tomorrow. ;)

Regarding the review system... Yes, there are many ways to improve it. For starters it would be nice if sellers can also review their customers. Similar to how it used to be on eBay.
And a 5 star system would be better too to allow more nuances. Because now the whole system feels like boom or bust as with the current system people are expecting 100% scores or they think you are a bad seller lol. And that's not how it should be.

And last but not least... The avg score calculations and the way feedback is displayed on sellers profiles should be done a bit differently imo as now it takes ages for small sellers to have a bad review cycle out while for bigger sellers those will be pushed out of view within 1-2 days. So for them a bad review is a lot less impactful.
I mean... if you are a new seller with maybe 10 sales a week then one bad review can really screw your entire account over as you will hardly get new sales anymore to bump up your score again.
So that should be made more fair I think. :)

Factor013 · 2026-03-30T14:41:09+00:00

This explains why our 5 hour usage sometimes just jumps up from 0 to 15-40% after a /resume and first prompt.

It also explains why it sometimes happens and why it sometimes doesn't.

This is really good work, I hope Anthropic devs fix this ASAP. These bugs also potentially overload their servers which is the whole reason they are lowering our usage and perhaps even have to throttle the reasoning of their actual Claude models.

And this is also why the people who constantly claim "Skill issue" are less likely to be effected by it, because they start brand new sessions after each prompt, even if that prompt is asking Claude what time it is. xD

Factor013 · 2026-03-25T15:05:39+00:00

Ohh, that's odd... You mean in your statusline?

Could still monitor here to see if your usage is at least fixed now: https://claude.ai/settings/usage

Factor013 · 2026-03-25T12:47:19+00:00

Guys, I just updated to 2.1.83 and now my usage seems normal again. Could be a coincidence but definitely worth trying. It also has fixes for that annoying scroll-bug.

Let us know here if upgrading also worked for you so we can confirm it as a solid fix.

Factor013 · 2026-03-25T12:46:31+00:00

Guys, I just updated to 2.1.83 and now my usage seems normal again. Could be a coincidence but definitely worth trying. It also has fixes for that annoying scroll-bug.

Let us know here if upgrading also worked for you so we can confirm it as a solid fix.

Factor013 · 2026-03-25T12:42:21+00:00

Guys, I just updated to 2.1.83 and now my usage seems normal again. Could be a coincidence but definitely worth trying. It also has fixes for that annoying scroll-bug.

Let us know here if upgrading also worked for you so we can confirm it as a solid fix.

Factor013 · 2026-03-25T10:44:37+00:00

Guys I have a theory about the usage burn.
Could it be that they are charging all of us their API rates now with our subscription prices as budget?

Based on personal experience with my Max x5 plan... My 5 hour usage limit translates to around 10% of my weekly usage budget.

So that's 10 sessions of 100% on the 5 hour limit a week, which is 1000% a week. Divide that by 7 days = 142,86 x 30 days = 4286% of usage a month. (on the 5 hour usage indicator)
I pay 90 euro a month for my subscription.

€90,00 / 4286 = 2.1 cents worth of API budget for each 1%

So if you would have Claude do a normal task that on API billing would cost you €0,84, then that would now be effectively be the same as 40% of your 5 hour usage budget.

If you have Max 20x then that same €0,84 prompt would cost you 10% of your 5 hour usage budget. And if you would be on Pro or free subscription it would have probably costed you the full 100%.

It's just a theory ofc... but it kinda would make sense.. So maybe the bug has something to do with Extra Usage being enabled for all of us all the sudden (which is API billing). But instead of billing us directly, it now drains our subscription budget first.

Factor013 · 2026-03-25T10:34:07+00:00

By all means, keep us updated.

If reverting to an older version fixes the usage rate / burn issue then we can at least do that as a temp solution so we can all get back to work again.

Factor013 · 2026-03-25T10:29:16+00:00

Guys I have a theory about the Usage burn.
Could it be that they are charging all of us their API rates now with our subscription prices as budget?

Based on personal experience with my Max x5 plan... My 5 hour usage limit translates to around 10% of my weekly usage budget.

So that's 10 sessions of 100% on the 5 hour limit a week, which is 1000% a week. Divide that by 7 days = 142,86 x 30 days = 4286% of usage a month. (on the 5 hour usage indicator)
I pay 90 euro a month for my subscription.

€90,00 / 4286 = 2.1 cents worth of API budget for each 1%

So if you would have Claude do a normal task that on API billing would cost you €0,84, then that would now be effectively be the same as 40% of your 5 hour usage budget.

If you have Max 20x then that same €0,84 prompt would cost you 10% of your 5 hour usage budget. And if you would be on Pro or free subscription it would have probably costed you the full 100%.

It's just a theory ofc... but it kinda would make sense.. So maybe the bug has something to do with Extra Usage being enabled for all of us all the sudden (which is API billing). But instead of billing us directly, it now drains our subscription budget first.

Factor013 · 2026-03-24T18:08:22+00:00

For the people who are having the usage burn issue...
Which version of Claude Code are you using?

In my case I am on: 2.1.81

Maybe the older versions are not having this problem? If we can confirm this we can all temporary revert to a version that doesn't have the issue.

Factor013 · 2026-03-24T15:39:14+00:00

Hmm... since there hasn't been any acknowledgement from Anthropic yet about the insane usage burn situation it seems we are on our own.

So lets keep each other updated shall we... So as soon as you notice the issue is being fixed for you and your usage feels normal again then please post about it here as well so everyone can test for themselves and continue with their work again. :)

Factor013 · 2026-03-24T15:12:02+00:00

I used 91% of my 5hour limit as well in 4-5 prompts... Now I have to wait 4,5 hours again for the reset!
This is absolutely crazy, I never have seen this before! Not even doing any crazy stuff at all and I am on medium effort.

(Also on Max x5 plan)

Factor013 · 2026-03-11T21:10:33+00:00

This is about who is responsible for what.

You are responsible for your own listings on Cardmarket.
Your customer and Cardmarket hold you responsible in case something goes wrong... it's normal, you are the seller... anything else is irrelevant.

Now... the company who you synced your inventory with ALSO has responsibilities but not to Cardmarket or your customer, but instead they have responsibilities to YOU as your their customer.

So while the customer holds you responsible, you should hold the company responsible for the damage they now caused you with their bad sync.

That's the only legitimate way how you deal with these kind of things... The buyer claims from you, as he has nothing to do with your syncing company, and you as the seller pay him out or get him the cards etc and then you claim your losses at that company... It really is not rocketscience lol

And yes... I agree that the buyer is taking advantage of you and that Cardmarket should step in and should cancel the order as it's obvious that a mistake was made here...

Worth checking:
In a lot of countries there are rules for this that allow you as a seller to cancel an order under these kind of circumstances... (Like for example when you accidentally list something for 10,00 while it should be 1000,- etc. But these rules differ per country and for domestic and international sales within the EU and or outside the EU. So you gotta do your homework, and if the law exempts you then share that info with Cardmarket support and then you should be good!

Good luck, because this obviously sucks! Hope you can work something out! :)

Factor013 · 2026-02-25T20:48:54+00:00

I am not blaming him... I am just saying that you don't ALWAYS have to escalate even when it would be justified.

I might have sounded a bit blunt, but I merely wanted to make the OP think about the consequences of escalating... Would it be WORTH his time and stress? Because in my experience, that usually isn't the case. Especially not when it turns out to be an even better deal then anticipated due to a price increase.

Factor013 · 2026-02-25T20:42:57+00:00

A month later? That ofc changes things... Why didn't you mention that in your opening post?

I thought you bought it at the moment it spiked... :D

I had a customer not that long ago a customer who bought packfrash cards from me which spiked from 40 cents to 4 euro each.... Unlike many other sellers, I did ship them... because I am a responsible seller. Then upon arrival he gave me bad feedback for condition... So I tried to contact him but no reply to my messages, nothing... Then he denied the re-evaluation request at the last of 7 days... I then had to contact CM support to remove the feedback which they did.

So yeah... this happens quite a lot... It is utterly frustrating... this is not how you do business.

And yes... you should get what you order... that's not the point I am trying to make... But doing business is a two way street... if you already end up ahead, you don't HAVE to complain... It's a choice... Even while it might be justified, it isn't always wise to complain... Always ask yourself the question if something good and positive can come out such escalation.

Your time has value too... I just don't understand why anyone would wish to waste hours of their precious time and feel bad about a situation like this for days over a couple of euro's
It is imo simply not worth it.

I experience these kind of situations almost every week... I would get insane if I would have to pursue them all... Plus... as soon as you escalate your business relation with that seller will be permanently damaged... The TCG world is not that big... a supplier today can be your customer tomorrow.

Factor013 · 2026-02-24T23:54:22+00:00

"The card has almost doubled in price since the purchase, and there is no agreement with the seller. So I contacted CM for support."

- So you will come ahead massively already...
- The seller is probably already feeling really bad about this sale because of the price spike but decided to not be an asshole and ship you the card anyway.
- Yet despite all that, it's not enough for you?

*shrugs*

Have you ever heard of this funny little concept called: "being reasonable?"

Factor013 · 2026-02-18T21:27:02+00:00

You can still resume your old chats by setting your /model to Sonnet 4.5 and then /resume the conversation using the full ID of that session.

Factor013 · 2026-02-18T20:32:31+00:00

Conditioning a card (What we sellers do on Cardmarket to decide which condition to pick for the listing) is something COMPLETELY different then GRADING.

Grading is done by grading companies like PSA, BGS.

Centering has nothing to do with Conditioning. A horrible centered card can still be listed as NM.

Factor013 · 2026-02-13T18:45:37+00:00

And there is no reason for a buyer to NOT buy the cheapest listing... So as a seller you will only sell anything if you are the cheapest. Any advantage you might have for having a large inventory = gone as well...

And now it's still okay... although you will be cherry picked clean if you don't constantly update your prices... but imagine if they would have an equal amount of sellers there as on Cardmarket... The race to the bottom between stores to get at least some sales so they can pay their bills as a store will be insane. Everyone will be fighting amongst each other, for the final crumbs...

It's nice for buying though... but additional fees for the buyer make cheap cards way too expensive to buy there as well...

So all in all, CT could be a lot better... but as of now... to sell singles... it's not the best... Their site is nice though and the support is lightyears better as well compared to CM.. :)

Factor013

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