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If it was via a credit card, consider doing a charge back. Sounds like you have plenty of evidence that they didn't provide the service they claimed they should have. Even for a small amount it hurts them much more with the CC processor.

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If you plan to do a charge back on Google, better be prepared to lose access to your entire Google account [1] including Gmail.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34016389

And that's why Google/Alphabet ought to be split up.

Don't forget mobile unless you are firmly in Apple camp with iPhone and iPad devices. You can switch to Apple ecosystem but then the overall cost in the end may be more than the chargeback amount.

It is a pain to install apps and use an Android phone with play services installed but not logged in.

Aurora Store should help a lot. (And also F-Droid!)

...or just create another Google account in a fake name.

>just create another Google account in a fake name.

You seriously think that the company that knows more about you than most intelligence agencies can't tell if you're hoodwinking them?

You can screw over a small business with chargebacks, but not like a CC processor is going to drop Google over one, or tens of thousands of chargebacks.

Nobody is going to drop Google. Google is going to drop YOU. From everything.

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