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New customer here, and must say that your service rocks!

Just wanted to alert you on this little email message/bug, as it deals with my checking account. I didn't notice the deduction of my monthly $5.00 service charge from my checking account, and the larger deduction of $245.00 didn't happen.

Paypal email:

"This email confirms that you sent = 245.00 USD to 19.5 Degrees as a =subscription payment.

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Payment Details
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Date of payment: 21-Dec-2007
Amount: =245.00 USD

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Subscription Details
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Amount: =245.00 USD
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Actually, that email is sent by PayPal and it's not even their fault. Your email reader did not parse the email correctly are "quoted printable" and "=24" is part of the encoding which it showed in the email making 5 USD look like =245 USD. Funny stuff :)