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ggtello
3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
No additional space on Business Advanced anymore.
Dear community,
I'm here to advice that the support have been denying us additional space for two weeks, first telling us that there was a momentary problem, then that we had made a request before the 7 days, then again (after waiting 7 days) that there is a problem which however is not written by Nowhere.
We're really worried about that because they don't give us any timelines and the fact that the problem doesn't exist on the dropbox status page and that nobody else talks about it seems a bit suspicious.
I don't like writing these posts but we are really worried don't you think? Are any of you having similar problems? do they only have it with us?
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- yossarian823 years agoHelpful | Level 6I just asked for more storage and now they're giving 9tb per week.
Still no reply from Dropbox support here. - Helsin3 years agoHelpful | Level 5
To extend on what dzeto has said. The company is misleading consumers about the amount of storage that they are actually able to get. it is considered false advertising. The company is advertising that you can have "as much storage as you need" without any limitations. However, when you do request more storage, you are told that there is a 10TB limit per week. This means that you are not actually able to have "as much storage as you need".
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) defines false advertising as "any false or misleading statement made about a product or service in an advertisement." The FTC has ruled that "as much storage as you need" is a misleading statement if there is a 10TB cap per week. Due to this, you can file a complaint with the FTC.
- dzeto3 years agoHelpful | Level 6Easy online report can be done here, it takes lees than 5 minutes: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/
- dzeto3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
I sugguest that everyone reports false advertising through national federal agency. If you don't know how, please check here: https://www.wikihow.com/Report-False-Advertising
- dzeto3 years agoHelpful | Level 6I have many business clients who have been affected by false advertising from Dropbox. Over the past few years, we have collected a lot of evidence and are now seriously considering collectively opening a big lawsuit against Dropbox. It is clear that they engage in false advertising and mislead users with their baseless excuses regarding limit changes.They will say anything to get paid, and it's simply a big lie. Even if you open tickets every day, you will NOT receive as much space as needed.This is particularly concerning for a company with a yearly revenue of $2.325B.Their lies and misleading information have harmed our business significantly. It's astonishing that no one has stopped them yet.If you would like to join the lawsuit, please let me know. We are planning to initiate disputes in different countries to apply more pressure.As an alternative, I suggest using box.com, which does not engage in misleading practices.Enough is enough, and this issue needs to be addressed.
- Bullserve3 years agoNew member | Level 2
Three reason why Dropbox is not a replacement for Google Drive:
- As an impacted Google Drive Unlimited user and facing the same issue as many, I contacted Dropbox support to confirm if the service was suitable for my needs. I had confirmed that my encrypted media would be safe here and that my amount of data would not be a problem with an Enterprise Advance account (175TB). Around 38TB into my migration I've hit a brick wall with the service and support team. It appears Dropbox has invoked a new policy of allowing 10TB of allocation per week. I was told actively, all way up to yesterday that my amount of data and my migration wouldn't be an issue, and that they will continue to allocated storage in blocks as needed. Now, I can no longer get any storage allocated to my account for a week, and that allocation is limited to 10TB.
- Following the above, I wanted to raise and issue and complain. I've effectively been mis-sold a product, with the actions of the above meaning that I'm stuck mid-migration in limbo and unable to move any more data, with an ETA for the remaining migration of ~140 now going to take 14 weeks. I was promptly advised that Dropbox do not have a complaint policy or a procedure to handle complaints. My issue will be fed to Services in the form of feedback and 'apologies for the trouble caused'.
- They have no weekend support. That's right, Monday - Friday. Have an issue on the weekend? Better hope it doesn't impact any services as it won't be looked at.
This is a stark warning for people with Google Drive datasets to steer clear of Dropbox and there service level. This is not the answer you are looking for and will disappoint. I unfortunately committed to a year of service. If you are going to start a subscription, maybe stick to monthly until your migration is complete to at least hold the Dropbox team financially accountable.
Related support tickets;
#22431044 - Requesting storage, have as much as you like#22443939 - Requesting storage, here's 10TB, come back for more anytime
#22450160 - You've had 10TB, come back in a week
TLDR; As much as you need data is a lie. I need more data and Dropbox refuse to allocated it. See this forum and Reddit for other instances of this happening They also do not accept complaints as an enterprise service. - therobbiedavis3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
I’ve been dealing with this same issue for over a week now. I bought the service on July 3rd, and told sales that I was transferring 78TB, and was told that would be no issue.
The automated storage increases stopped working on July 11th at 38TB, so I reached out to support and Mia mentioned that “Dropbox engineers are aware of an issue currently with that option and are working on a solution.”
I’ve specifically asked for a timeline and they replied with “it is not possible to know the exact date.”
They have offered a free month of my subscription as well as a full refund, but I am just looking for answers.
UPDATE 7/22/23: I have requested to proceed with the full refund as offered and have instead went with Box.com’s Business Plus plan.UPDATE 7/26/23: I had to call Dropbox support because the agent that was handling my issue via email (Mia) said they had escalated my issue instead of processing my request for a refund as offered. I believe they are overwhelmed and losing money with the amount of growth they've seen from the amount of gdrive migrations, hence the limiting policies set forth. It does not justify it, and it is wrong to do to customers. I will not be using Dropbox ever again and will actively deter anyone else from using them as well. I am glad that my time dealing with this shady company has now concluded.
- Shamrock223 years agoHelpful | Level 7
This whole affair is getting even more strange. I really start to doubt these business-decisions they make.
I made peace with the idea that i have to request every week 10 TB. I can do this even automated, no problem.
Now today Dropbox (Boris) answered me i will only get additional 10 TB capacity next week when i reach this capacity need.
Soooooo the solution for this is now to fill up random bytes on it, i suppose.This is the effect of your policies. This is what you want?
I can do this. No problem. But i really don't want to. I like this service actually and i want it to succeed but you are basically forcing the people to do this.
You should fire the person who had these wonderful ideas.
Edit: I want to emphasize that i am not a user who has 1000TB of stuff stored. I am still in the low two-digit-TB-area.
- benhum3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Hi,
I've begun the process of moving all my work (video production) from a local NAS to Dropbox Business Advanced on the promise of unlimited storage and better backups/versioning.
It automatically increased my storage as I went along, and I've got a little over half way through the process (39.9TB of around 75TB), but the disk is now marked as full. I've contacted support, who told me "Unfortunately, we cannot add more space at the moment. However, our engineers are aware of the problem and are working on a solution". No timeline, and a follow up query to clarify whether I have reached a maximum amount of available storage currently available to an account, or if there is a problem relating to adding storage to any account, has not been answered.
Is 40TB a hard limit? Have I made a terrible error buying a year upfront of storage that doesn't meet my needs?
- yossarian823 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Today the support team finally told me that these issues are related to an unexpected growth of Dropbox Advanced users and they can provide 10Tb of space every 7 days. I wonder why they did not provide this information as soon as they knew it: for businesses it's crucial to know it. On their pricing/tier list this information is still not present and I think it's detrimental for any team or business that rely on cloud storage as backup.
While I can understand and I still can wait some days/weeks until everything will return to normal (it will? who knows), I'm very disappointed by the shadiness of this situation and how Dropbox handled this. Still no voice by the official team here, though.
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