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Finding a forgotten charge and getting a refund
The agent reviewed 12 months of receipts, found an idle database and kept pushing until the company issued a refund.
- Profession
- Developer
- Tools
- Meta Muse
- Source
- sidsaladi.substack.com ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- no date
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
The author asked the agent to look through 12 months of receipts in Gmail and list recurring charges they might not be using. They picked an idle database on Google Cloud costing $9.54 a month. The agent drafted the request and sent it after approval; when Google refused, it drafted an appeal.
How it went
The appeal won a $114.14 refund 39 minutes later.
Good to know
It sends only with approval: nothing went out without the author seeing it.
The prompt
Review my receipts from [period] and list recurring charges with amount, date and service. Highlight the ones that look unused. For the one I choose, write a polite refund request and a second email in case they refuse.
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