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I pay for theChatGPT Pro tier mainly for Codex.

After a usage reset from Tibo, my account was restored to 100% and ChatGPT showed August 7 as my next weekly reset date. I planned my work around that date.

Then, when I was almost out of usage, the reset date suddenly changed to August 12.

So I contacted support with a very simple question:

“Codex showed me Aug 7. Then you showed me Aug 12. What happened?”

After multiple AI replies, and asking for an escalation, I finally got their actual answer:

They cannot see the event-by-event reset history, cannot determine what caused the date to change, cannot escalate it to a team that can check, and cannot restore or compensate the missing usage.

So the final situation is basically:

OpenAI: “Your reset is Aug 7.”

Later:

OpenAI: “Actually, Aug 12.”

Me: “Why?”

OpenAI: “We don't know, we can't find out, and we can't compensate you.”

That is an unbelievably strange level of support for a paid product where usage limits directly affect whether you can actually use the service. I was obviously happy for the free reset, but I cannot keep paying for a product that can just hallucinate a reset date. I switched from Claude where this didn't happen once.

The funniest part is that support explicitly acknowledged that I relied on the reset date shown in ChatGPT when planning my Codex usage. They just have no way to explain why their own system changed it.

These are the last two messages if anybody wants to read through them: https://imgur.com/a/wrVKdwR

Posted Aug 12, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC

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