I had the exact same experience! Except I got no credit.
My CC expired but I was on vacation and didn't have access to email. When I was back, the droplet and all backups and snapshots were completely removed. For the record, I was only 15 days late. Very sad. I tried my best to get the backups from the support engineer but no luck.
My CC expired but I was on vacation and didn't have access to email. When I was back, the droplet and all backups and snapshots were completely removed. For the record, I was only 15 days late. Very sad. I tried my best to get the backups from the support engineer but no luck.