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munaladhikari2062: $4.50 for 377 Cache Reserve Class A operations billed as a full million.
Community user munaladhikari2062 (CSIT Notes Hub) asks for a one-time courtesy credit for a $4.50 charge, saying they were unaware that 377 Cache Reserve Class A operations would trigger the full million-unit minimum billing increment. The author has disabled Cache Reserve and opened case 02070539 on April 14 with no response after 11 days. Other users in the thread say support is slow to respond to existing tickets.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Write volume
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-04-25
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author requests a courtesy credit via case 02070539; no reply is reported.
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Case timeline
Author asks for a $4.50 Cache Reserve credit
Open original sourceThe author says 377 Class A operations were billed at the million-unit minimum of $4.50 and case 02070539 has had no response for 11 days.
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