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user4338 (mybloom.space): two unpaid $9.90 R2 Infrequent Access invoices, USD 19.80, never used.
Community user user4338 (mybloom.space) asks Cloudflare to remove two R2 Infrequent Access charges of USD 9.90 each (July 14 and August 8, 2026), USD 19.80 in total, saying a test bucket was created with Infrequent Access by mistake, never used, and deleted together with the R2 subscription as soon as it was noticed. The author says an Urgent billing ticket (02249626) has had zero replies for 31 days and that the case form is not reachable. A community MVP replies that usage-based bills cover the previous 30 days and that a single request incurs the minimum $9 charge.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Unknown
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-08-23
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author asks for both invoices to be removed via ticket 02249626; no reply is reported.
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Case timeline
Author asks to remove two $9.90 R2 IA invoices
Open original sourceThe author says a mistaken IA bucket was never used and deleted, yet two $9.90 invoices were issued, and the Urgent ticket is unanswered.
Author says a case cannot be opened
Open original sourceThe author says the support case page returns no access to create a case and the Billing subtopics offer no form.
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