Friend accidentally bid 1.8 bil on 4 IOs. Was it yours?

A friend of mine accidentally bid 1.8 billion on 4 Invention Recharge IOs on Saturday, May 7. If it was your auction he paid the 450 million each for, we'd appreciate the safe return of the money. Yes, the lost winning transaction fee is understood and a reward would be given in return (which can be discussed what you want).

Thank you if you see this and contact me in a PM or in game at @Rejolt.

Keep in mind that those bids could have been filled from multiple sellers. Even if someone does come forward, there's a good chance that your friend won't recover his entire losses.

Also... wow.

That really sucks. I've been there before, which is why I no longer keep more than a billion on any character that is actively using the market.

Sorry to hear. Doesn't seem to be mine.

Given that I've put out several threads saying "I sold an item for too much, was it yours?" and I never got a "Yes" answer- I agree with 37. It's just numbers.

Chalk this one up to experience and move on, your friend's never getting that money back.

Don't sell them, so know it wasn't me. But in the past (Back when 2 billion was a lot to most people) I know when people would sometime experience a significant loss some forum posters who were well off would step up and throw in a small chunk of change to help recover the loss.

Hit me with a PM in game.

I was going to post on the channels, but I didn't want to out my friend's name in doing so. Thank you everyone for the private tells and offers to give funds but this was only a shot in the dark for someone who got the "What the heck...?!" overbid to speak up. There's no need to donate funds (this hurt, but is not devastating).

Thanks again!

At least his powers recharge faster now.

... I can't help with the return of the money, but I went out in sympathy and spent 75 million on a Masterwork Weapon. Wasn't even just extra zeroes, because it was 75,010,908. I'm still not sure what I was thinking.

So I'm in his corner!

1.8 bil? Ouch. Even if you know how to replace it, that's still a downer.

Ow ow ow owie! How does one even make that big of an error? Was it human error or due to the interface bug?

(There's just one market. Freedom, Union, Villain, Hero, all the same.)

I never throw down a long string of zeros, to AVOID the extra-zero problem . But when your brain sees a list of buys for 75 thousand and goes "Right. 75 million. " not much you can do. You can avoid the typos, but thinkos are another thing entirely.

You know...I knew that all the markets are connected, but for some reason I just...forgot it.

Just out of curiosity, what was supposed to be the correct bid?

The players who benefited from your friend's blunder have no obligation to reimburse your friend. Besides only a small fraction of the players actually read this section of the forums. Also there is no way at all to determine which server the sellers are from so your chances of finding them are almost impossible. Should teach your friend to be more careful about what they bid.

But did he get those IOs rite nao?

Your friend won't get the money back. Even if it was a clear accident, the person who got 1.8 billion is entitled to it through and through.

Also, if your friend wanted to be safe with that kind of amount of money, why didn't he just play it safe and buy the Recharge IO Recipes from the University, and craft them personally? It's not like he'd be out of pocket if he did it at the time, he had 1.8 BILLION.

EDIT: I begin to doubt whether this even happened or not, and someone is trying to scam some money. How the hell could something 'accidentally' buy some IOs of that standard for such a number?

It's not like making money on the market's so tough we have to scam each other for every last half-billion.