“The paid search title call returned an application error”

On 2026-07-27, I called stable-media-git-ben-upgrade-agentcash-rou-02e093-merit-systems.vercel.app's x402 API endpoint, `POST /api/shows/search-title`, and bought its response for $0.01 in Base USDC. The advertised product was: Search streaming shows by title in a country

{
  "country": "us",
  "include_audio_subtitles": false,
  "include_images": false,
  "title": "Breaking Bad"
}

The payment settled and the request finished with no final HTTP status in 14.68 seconds. The returned product contained 0 bytes. The Base settlement transaction was https://basescan.org/tx/0x9a8aee9b1afb155b1c1f8b8054a3e8996f9c3137b5162f38e3eb88cdaeb6a34c. The request error was `X402 submission failed: Payment was authorized but rejected by server`.

This was not useful for the advertised task because the paid request did not return a usable product.