Claude subscription payment woes

Is anyone else having trouble right now with the Claude payment processing for signing up on the monthly Pro subscription? I just spent a few hours feeding in history, writing samples, my ChatGPT DNA documents, SOOOO much time and content input. It was working on my guiding DNA document to use with Claude and suddenly it said I had to subscribe to continue (or wait an hour). I tried to pay with everything from credit cards to debit cards and even with Apple Pay since I'm on Safari. Everything failed. I have no alerts in any of my card accounts about declined suspicious transactions, so I have to assume Anthropic didn't truly even attempt to charge anything before giving me the "declined" red letter error.

So, I'm sick thinking all of this work is lost to build Claude into a workable context. And, I have no idea what to do from here. If others are having the same troubles, at least I would know this is a bug they need to fix. Anyone run into this with Claude payment set up before? Did you find a workaround?

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