I signed up for a free trial, got called away from my pc come back 3 hours later and my account is susspended and you want $5 to activate it! not even used the free trial to see if it’s any good!!!
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I signed up for a free trial and immediately attempted to create a droplet. I get an error saying the account is suspended. I tired signing up again under two other email addresses and got exactly the same results.