Haha! Laugh at my pain! Laughter is the best medicine!

[Caulderone]

1.6 billion on character

Intent:  Bid on 40 stacks of 10 Boosters at 1.3Mil and change each, spending less than 600 million.

Spam bid button.

 

Actual:  Bid on stacks of 10 Boosters at 13Mil and change each, spending over 1.5 billion on 120ish Boosters.

 

What the hell did I just do?  I now have 80 Million and 120 Boosters instead of 1 Billion and 400 Boosters.

 

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Feel free to get your chuckles!  Laughing is better than crying.

 

ALWAYS CHECK YOUR NUMBER OF ZEROES BEFORE YOU BID!!!

[n00baka]

I feel your pain. I’ve never had money enough to make that mistake, but I don’t need to get my hand stuck in a blender to know it hurts. 

[DR_Mechano]

8 hours ago, Caulderone said:

1.6 billion on character

Intent:  Bid on 40 stacks of 10 Boosters at 1.3Mil and change each, spending less than 600 million.

Spam bid button.

 

Actual:  Bid on stacks of 10 Boosters at 13Mil and change each, spending over 1.5 billion on 120ish Boosters.

 

What the hell did I just do?  I now have 80 Million and 120 Boosters instead of 1 Billion and 400 Boosters.

 

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Feel free to get your chuckles!  Laughing is better than crying.

 

ALWAYS CHECK YOUR NUMBER OF ZEROES BEFORE YOU BID!!!

done that, meant to bid 300,000 on a Recharge IO, accidentaly bid 3 mill on it instead...esh..someone was made very happy that day.

[Redlynne]

Math is a terrible thing to waste in a hurry ...

[Yomo Kimyata]

I popped on yesterday and noticed last 5 enhancement converters were: 97,000; 95,000,000; 95,000,000; 95,000; 95,000.  Was that you too?

[Caulderone]

Nope.  My oops was on Boosters.

 

So, someone else had a pretty bad day, too.

[Texas Titan]

I spam bid 900,000 on 100 converters a while back. That hurt a bit. I double check my zeroes all the time now. LOL

[MunkiLord]

4 hours ago, Texas Titan said:

I spam bid 900,000 on 100 converters a while back. That hurt a bit. I double check my zeroes all the time now. LOL

I did that about a week ago! Cost me about 300-400 million before I caught it and cancelled the other bids. 

[Yomo Kimyata]

So far my worst boo boo was accidentally bidding and buying a hundred or so brain storm ideas at around 500k each.  I thought I was bidding on rare salvage.  Whoops.

[Myrmidon]

23 hours ago, Caulderone said:

1.6 billion on character

Intent:  Bid on 40 stacks of 10 Boosters at 1.3Mil and change each, spending less than 600 million.

Spam bid button.

 

Actual:  Bid on stacks of 10 Boosters at 13Mil and change each, spending over 1.5 billion on 120ish Boosters.

 

What the hell did I just do?  I now have 80 Million and 120 Boosters instead of 1 Billion and 400 Boosters.

 

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Feel free to get your chuckles!  Laughing is better than crying.

 

ALWAYS CHECK YOUR NUMBER OF ZEROES BEFORE YOU BID!!!

And people wonder why I don’t buy boosters.

[Mr. Vee]

I've added a zero with converters and on a purple here and there but nothing like that in bulk before. Of course I've been using merits for boosters cuz even though i have the money i decided i should probably use merits for something since they're just sitting there piling up.

[DSorrow]

This is why I always use a sequence of numbers instead of zeroes. For example, if I'm going to bid 10 million on something, the actual bid is going to be something like 10,123,456 so that I'm less likely to put an extra number in there.

[Texas Titan]

15 hours ago, MunkiLord said:

I did that about a week ago! Cost me about 300-400 million before I caught it and cancelled the other bids. 

Mine all went through before I realized what I had done. 90 million gone and I had 100 converters to show for it. LOL

[Ulysses Dare]

On 9/15/2019 at 12:24 PM, Texas Titan said:

I spam bid 900,000 on 100 converters a while back. That hurt a bit. I double check my zeroes all the time now. LOL

Did that just a couple of weeks ago. I was thinking I'd bid low and let them sit for the next day, so was going to bid 81,234. I wound up bidding 812,345. By the time I'd figured out why all of my bids had filled so quick it was all over. C'est la vie.

[VV]

Yeah, I learned the hard way not to market when blitzed. Mine wasn't that bad, but I've gifted a few folks 25M on 25K IOs. I've also gone the other route and sold off a few things for well under average.

[Scientist]

Accidentally did that on rare salvage I was buying to craft some recipes I'd bought in bulk, lost about 120M before I noticed my mistake.  Turns you you CAN pay over 1M for rare salvage, even if you SHOULDN'T. . . 

[Murcielago]

Press F to pay respects

[merrypessimist]

I suspect everyone who's ever made significant use of the auction houses has done something similar, in kind if not necessarily in scale. 🙂

[The_Cheeseman]

I just hit an extra zero last night and bid 90mil on a 9mil PvP IO. Really sucked, killed my motivation to even keep playing.

[Jace The Comic Source1]

Sent 1 BN through the e-mail and it disappeared, best guess is I misspelled the Global Name and someone else got a nice chunk of change. At the time I only had 2 BN one one toon, so it hurt a bit. I don't e-mail INF anymore, safer to just log on another account and trade it.

[Roderick]

3 hours ago, Jace The Comic Source1 said:

Sent 1 BN through the e-mail and it disappeared, best guess is I misspelled the Global Name and someone else got a nice chunk of change. At the time I only had 2 BN one one toon, so it hurt a bit. I don't e-mail INF anymore, safer to just log on another account and trade it.

When sending Inf, open the email window and put one Merit in it, then add the Inf. When you put an account-bound item in the mail, it autofills your global, and won't let you send it to someone else.

[Myrmidon]

2 hours ago, Roderick said:

When sending Inf, open the email window and put one Merit in it, then add the Inf. When you put an account-bound item in the mail, it autofills your global, and won't let you send it to someone else.

As does leaving an email to yourself and using the Reply button.

[Jace The Comic Source1]

4 hours ago, Roderick said:

When sending Inf, open the email window and put one Merit in it, then add the Inf. When you put an account-bound item in the mail, it autofills your global, and won't let you send it to someone else.

wow good to know, thanks!