Thank you, poor typer.


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EDIT: er, typist. I blame it on gloating. My typo wasn't costly, at least, and raised the thread's irony.


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Cyan

 

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Gloating means never having to say you're sorry.

It's much like "Deal With It ".


 

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Originally Posted by Daemodand View Post
So what were they trying to bid? Extra zero would mean they were bidding 11,560,080 for 5 Hydraulic Pistons which is still pretty eye-rolling.

People playing their 50s has done things to salvage.
Yeah, that's what I wonder. Those pistons were put on sale this morning for 1 or 5 inf.

Maybe someone had too much green beer today? Trying to manipulate the price of hydraulic pistons would be too costly IMHO. There are usually tens of thousands for sale at a given time.


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Several times now I've put something up for sale only to look at the market a day, an hour, sometimes a minute later and find its put a completely different thing on sale for the same price. I'm pretty careful about that sort of thing, so I'm not sure what is happening. Once, I put a recipe on sale for 60 million and came back to find that somehow I had put my emergency radios up for sale at that price. Oddly, no takers. Since its a sale, not an offer, I could just cancel although I suspect I ate the listing fee.

I suspect that is a composite set of sales. 115600800 / 5 = 23120160. Who bids weird numbers like that on anything? I'm more inclined to believe thats one sale of 800 and 4 sales at 28,900,000, or four sales at 200 and one mega mistake of 115,600,000 for one single piston.

Because the market interface happily remembers your last bid for anything and helpfully fills it in for you automatically at times, this lovely problem can also happen. I had bid 35,000,000 for something, and then I switched to bid on a luck charm. I highlighted the bid and typed "33333." For a split second that is what the blank showed, but then something updated and it instead showed 35033333. Somehow it had only overwrote the last five digits. If I had hastily pushed the button, I would have bid 35 million for a luck charm.

You really need to treat the market interface like you're sending the commands to Mars, and assume the command might take a while to get there, and it might not get there ungarbled.


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