Caulderone Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 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!!! 3 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00baka Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 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. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR_Mechano Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redlynne Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 Math is a terrible thing to waste in a hurry ... Verbogeny is one of many pleasurettes afforded a creatific thinkerizer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yomo Kimyata Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 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? 1 Who run Bartertown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caulderone Posted September 15, 2019 Author Share Posted September 15, 2019 Nope. My oops was on Boosters. So, someone else had a pretty bad day, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Titan Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MunkiLord Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 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. The Trevor Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yomo Kimyata Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 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. Who run Bartertown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrmidon Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 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. Playing CoX is it’s own reward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Vee Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSorrow Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 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. Torchbearer: Sunsinger - Fire/Time Corruptor Cursebreaker - TW/Elec Brute Coldheart - Ill/Cold Controller Mythoclast - Rad/SD Scrapper Give a man a build export and you feed him for a day, teach him to build and he's fed for a lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Titan Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Dare Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VV Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scientist Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 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. . . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murcielago Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Press F to pay respects 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merrypessimist Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 I suspect everyone who's ever made significant use of the auction houses has done something similar, in kind if not necessarily in scale. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Cheeseman Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace The Comic Source1 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roderick Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 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. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrmidon Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 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. Playing CoX is it’s own reward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace The Comic Source1 Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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