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Two-day Workers Paid Containers test produced a $162.55 Container Memory invoice.
fnl.joseph says a brief Workers Paid ($5) trial to test the service ended after about two days with a $162.55 invoice for Container Memory. The author also says the payment system processed that charge twice as pending $324 for a single invoice, asked for a one-time goodwill waiver to close the account, and reported no reply after weeks.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Active duration
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-03-27
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author asks for a one-time goodwill waiver and later says the billing case had no reply; the $324 figure is described as a double pending charge of the same $162.55 invoice, not a second usage amount.
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Author reports Containers invoice and double pending charge
Open original sourceThe author reports a $162.55 Container Memory invoice after a short Workers Paid test and says the same charge appeared twice as pending $324.
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