How many of you have...

KLARNOLD · Sep 9, 2010

How many of you have entered a bid amount incorrectly and ended up winning the auction for more than you actually wanted to pay? I didn't have my snipe program on the computer I was using so I just waited until the last 6 seconds and clicked the "1 click bid" feature to increase the high bid from 36.00 to 38.00. Instead I accidentally put in 386.00 and won the item for 53.52 (I have already paid for it). Thank goodness someone else didn't put in a 380.00 bid.

JzWand · Sep 9, 2010

Havent done that but I accidently accepted an offer from a buyer when I meant to counter.

It was a cheap card, about $5 so I didnt care too much, and of course honored my end without even bringing it up.

rico08 · Sep 9, 2010

Gah, haven't done that yet. I'd be pretty upset at myself if my typo forced me to overpay $20+. But I too would pay if it happened.

voteEjordan · Sep 9, 2010

They call it "fat finger error".

I have a computer programmer buddy with access to travel agent data streams who wrote a script that snaps up travel reservations when airlines/hotels list a reservation for $1.68 instead of $168.

Gwynn545 · Sep 9, 2010

Once I did $1054 on a card I wanted to do $10.54.... :lol:
I knew I'd win it, it wasn't anything too rare, so I let it ride. It was pretty exhilerating! (It went for less than $10!!)

aaron41984 · Sep 10, 2010

I typed in $1200 on a snipe program once when I meant $120. 2 days later I won the card for $202.50 and about fell out. I thought about taking the NPB strike but emailed the seller and told him I would give him $$ for his trouble but didn't want to pay $80+ more for the card when I had already bought two of them for less than $120. He graciously knocked off his seller fees plus some for an outside eBay transaction. Worked out well.

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