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> You might talk to Amazon directly - they've been known to forgive debts like these in these kinds of circumstances.

They did:

> Lucky for me, I explained my situation to Amazon customer support – and they knew I wasn’t bitcoin mining all night. Amazon was kind enough to drop the charges this time…

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Whoops. I missed that. Glad the author was able to dodge that bullet!

This was my initial reaction too, but I was pleased to find it's just a slightly misleading title :)

On HN I recall the title originally including the $2300 (which matched the blog post's title). Now the HN title does not include the $ amount. Did the mods make that change? I would think preserving the source's title would generally take precedence even if a bit misleading.

I'm nearly certain it did, which is in line with submission guidelines; certainly the title led to our mutual confusion. I do not know how/if titles can be edited.

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