adrenaline by way of email encoding

[rmd]

So, I bought a thing on ebay this evening. And I did all the 'pay with paypal' crap and finished up the transaction. And then I got mail on offhand about it. Which I read with plain old /bin/mail. And I saw this:

Unit Price: =246.99 USD
Total: =246.99 USD

Shipping and handling: =240.00 USD
Insurance - not offered : ----

Total: =246.99 USD

Payment: =246.99 USD

And I had a moment of utter wtf terror wondering how I possibly missed the fact that there was $240 in shipping tacked on and I totally would've seen that in paypal and how could it ....

And then I remembered that "=24" is also the encoding for "$", and I fired the message up in mutt and checked that it actually said:

Unit Price: $6.99 USD
Total: $6.99 USD

Shipping and handling: $0.00 USD
Insurance - not offered : ----

Total: $6.99 USD

Payment: $6.99 USD

*whew*. That's better.

Comments

[evwhore.livejournal.com]

heh :-) heart rate returned to normal yet?

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

Har! I totally made the same mistake (somewhat tweaked by the poor formatting in how they placed the '='!) until I noticed that the total didn't add up.

But you noticed the incredible shipping price, and overlooked that your ~$7 item had inflated to ~$240!

[muffyjo]

Well, now you know the heart is still ticking. ;)

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've had that moment of terror too. :)

[diagonti.livejournal.com]

That is so awesome. :)