To whomever just got 17.5 mill for a magical conspiracy
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Posted on: 2010-02-21 15:57 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Gawd I hate when I type to many "0's".....
Failed Inf transfer I take it?
Merry christmas!
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Lawl. Inf Transfer using Salvage? I doubt it.|
Originally Posted by Scythus
Failed Inf transfer I take it?
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More like an extra 0 bidding.
hope you learn to take it slow when buying
Let's just hope that it didn't go to a gold farmer.
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They put the commas in specifically to help us avoid this. Bummer!
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But he didn't type too many 0's. He wants 15 million back from his bid of 17.5 million. That would mean he intended to bid 2.5 million.
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Originally Posted by The_Larker
Gawd I hate when I type to many "0's".....
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Or he put an extra zero but figures 2.5 million is a fair price.
That sucks dude.
/em sympathy
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A lot more reasonable than 17.5 million.|
Originally Posted by Ice_Wall
Or he put an extra zero but figures 2.5 million is a fair price.
That sucks dude. /em sympathy |
Unfortunately it's very unlikely that whoever got the inf even reads the forums.
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Yeah I see what you mean. I focused on the difference between 17.5 and 15 mill.|
Originally Posted by Ice_Wall
Or he put an extra zero but figures 2.5 million is a fair price.
That sucks dude. /em sympathy |
And since I didn't say it before, it does suck.
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Quite possible that whoever the benefiary was didn't even notice. I know that when I am selling I pretty much just throw it all in and move from one item to the next quick enough that I don't see what each item sold for... And I seldom look at how much I'm getting when I hit get all inf either...
But just in case it was me, sorry man but no refunds!
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Originally Posted by Satanic_Hamster
I want 15 million back!
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You only hope is that they are ebil.
I did the same thing with a different rare salvage this weekend...15 million when I meant to bid 1.5 million.
Sometime the fingers need to be slammed in a door for their insolence.
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I share your pain as well. Except instead of accidentally adding an extra zero or two, I bought ten of an item of which I only needed one because I previously bought ten of an item and forgot to move the slider. That taught me never to made that same mistake, though.
I took a big hit (for me) last week despite being careful.
I tentatively entered a 7.55 million price on a recipe just to look at what the market fee would be, without actually placing the recipe up for sale. Then, keenly aware of the dangers of stray digits in the market interface, I backspaced over the number entirely, erasing it, and closed the window for that recipe (but not the market window itself).
Then I looked at stuff for a while and forgot there was any danger.
Then I decided to put some trashy white salvage up for sale at 15 each. A block of five of them. As I hit enter, I saw the unbelievable sum of 755,000,015 appear as the price. Somehow when I'd put my cursor in the salvage window and started typing a price, it remembered the unsaved, backspaced over, never cut-and-pasted sum and threw that in there too. God only knows why they'd write software that would do that.
So my listing fee was 188.75 million. Poof. Unlike the Hamster, I didn't even get a salvage item out of it; had to re-list the items and eat the fee (NOBODY is going to pay 755 million for a piece of white salvage!) I sold them for a tidy sum of around 100 total for all 5, which helped offset my recent loss. :P
I'm not a rich player, certainly not a 2-billion marketeer, and I've been trying to buy three specific purples for some time now. Thus losing 188 million really hurt. But what I hated far more was that I had gone to some trouble to backspace over my numbers and open a different item's price window, specifically to protect against accidentally entering the numbers. Bah!
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It's even weirder seeing him in the Fark.com threads.
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Originally Posted by JJDrakken
I saw Satanic Hamster on The Bioware Mass Effect forums
It was really weird to see someone from COH over there :O JJ |
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It happens if you're not paying 100% full attention to what you're doing in the market window.|
Originally Posted by Satanic_Hamster
I want 15 million back!
Grrr. |
There's nothing you can do about it, move on. You could have had to absorb a 50 million listing fee for listing something when tired and not paying attention to making sure previous entries had cleared from the price entry box. Or accidentally listed a crafted Numina +regen/+recovery IO among a load of Generic Heal IO's and for the same price (hey, it was another green IO and I was tired :P)
Just pay attention next time, that's all you can get out of it, and it's not as if inf is hard to come by, even just playing the game the 'old fashioned' way.
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I overpay like that on purpose sometimes, just for the fun of it.
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At least you didn't lose that much inf
I want 15 million back!
Grrr.
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