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Old 06-01-2024, 10:17 AM
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Default Ebay. Ooopsie!

This ever happen to anybody on Ebay's Mobile App.?

For some reason I got it in my head I wanted a PSA 9 Eric Dickerson Rookie for my PC but didn't want to pay BIN prices. Saw one on Ebay with 12 minutes left to go while I'm cleaning up the kitchen after dinner, and went to go put in a bid for $56.97. Not exactly an aggressive bid, but it had an older flip and it wasn't a high priority for me. Just a lark basically.

For some reason my fat bidding fingers rolled through the keypad and punched in 56097 instead of 56.97 and hit "Submit".

No way to retract anymore (which is not a bad thing...most of the time), too late to contact the buyer and ask to cancel so I could rebid.....so I just waited it out.

Longest 12 minutes of my life. Glad nobody was shilling me. I could have reset the market for Eric Dickerson rookies.

Ended up getting it for 77 bucks. More then I wanted to pay for an old flip, but cheap for a lesson learning exercise.

Over the years this has never happened to me on the desktop version, but it has happened on the phone app before, since there's no "confirm" bid screen after you place your bid in there. It just goes straight through. Fortunately, never to really disastrous results so far.

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Old 06-01-2024, 11:08 AM
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I did it once. I bid $20.07 on a beater T206 Ganley with a Sweet Cap 150/30 back. Accidentally bid $2007. I won it for $180 and change, for reasons I don't understand (maybe that particular SC series/factory combo is tougher for him?). So that one cost me a lot more than I thought my mistake would. Oh well, my mistake, I paid what seemed like 500% of the value and learned a lesson. Now I make double sure not to hit the confirmation button on auto pilot
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Old 06-01-2024, 11:26 AM
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I did it once. I bid $20.07 on a beater T206 Ganley with a Sweet Cap 150/30 back. Accidentally bid $2007. I won it for $180 and change, for reasons I don't understand (maybe that particular SC series/factory combo is tougher for him?). So that one cost me a lot more than I thought my mistake would. Oh well, my mistake, I paid what seemed like 500% of the value and learned a lesson. Now I make double sure not to hit the confirmation button on auto pilot

Ouch! Greg Morris just sold one for 36.66, so it looks like you got hosed on that one.
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Old 06-01-2024, 04:57 PM
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That is luckily one of the few mistakes I haven't made on there. Dave at least it was a cheap lesson. Greg that is brutal and I highly respect you paid for the card and used it as a life lesson.
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Old 06-02-2024, 09:37 AM
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On the flipside, I just got a request to cancel bids in an ongoing auction. Bidder put several bids in on a fairly cheap card. Nothing very expensive or outrageous. No "I put the decimal point in the wrong spot" reason.

Just, "I'm not interested anymore, please cancel my bids".

Seems polite on the surface, and there's still 6 days left in the auction, and it's really not that big a deal...but...why does it annoy me soooooo much?
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Just the other day I intended to big $4.09 on a cheap break. I bid $409. Thankfully, I won it for $6.05.

Only bid I've ever had to cancel is when someone lists a card as PSA 9 so you bid, then notice that it's actually a PSA 9(OC). Hate when people don't put that in the description (also, I need to look closer when using the mobile app).
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I've entered 7 digit bids exactly twice. The first was for an auction I knew was fake, but the second wasn't. Fortunately I got outbid on the real one because I don't have that kind of money.
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My worst gaffe happened when I was standing in line at a food truck looking at a $1500 card. I got called, dropped the phone in my pocket, and accidentally BINed it. The seller was really pissed but agreed to cancel the sale.
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I've entered 7 digit bids exactly twice. The first was for an auction I knew was fake, but the second wasn't. Fortunately I got outbid on the real one because I don't have that kind of money.

Um, what?
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Old 06-18-2024, 06:23 AM
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This happened to me somewhat recently. I don't dabble much in modern but do pick up the occasional David Ortiz card for my son's collection that I've been building for him since he was born. Forgot to hit the decimal and bid $8546 instead of $85.46. Thankfully it was early enough and the seller cancelled my bid after I asked. I then bid what I meant to bid and lost out by about $30.
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Um, what?
I read about it now, I didn't know the auction was pulled afterwards.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ee-owners.html

I will look to see if I still have any emails from back then about it.
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