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Originally Posted by eschwartz
What is wrong with the phrase "We value your custom"?
Do you think the average spammer has better diction than the people who write form letters for Amazon (and thus, instances of advanced English are a red flag for spam)?
Or do you simply feel that "patronage" is somehow more formal and therefore should've been used instead?
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Maybe the poster is from the States? When I read that, I thought it sounded like British English - then I noticed that Josieb1 is from the UK. I wouldn't call that common usage here (in the US). Just a guess.