Warnings

Sites I would not send my money to.

Every entry here is one I looked at myself, and each says what the problem was and how I checked it. This is not a list of providers that disappointed me — a bad deal is not a scam, and the ledger already carries the caveats for those. This section is for the ones that take the money and do not deliver.

• Checked 2026-09-20

  Openference: ten minutes of thinking, then an error. I am calling that a quasi-scam

  Thinking ran for 10m 39s and the request ended with "The model provider's stream was interrupted." I paid and got nothing back. The 85-second delay I measured earlier was not slowness — it was a preview.

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