Thick finger: I did something stupid. I bid on Ebay for a new lens but, without realsing it I puit in an extra nought.Of course I won but at a bigger price than I wanted. The seller...

viscountdriver Loc: East Kent UK

I did something stupid. I bid on Ebay for a new lens but, without realsing it I puit in an extra nought.Of course I won but at a bigger price than I wanted. The seller kindly said I could pull out but I felt pbliged to go ahead, it was my mistake.
Carefully check.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

viscountdriver wrote:

I did something stupid. I bid on Ebay for a new lens but, without realsing it I puit in an extra nought.Of course I won but at a bigger price than I wanted. The seller kindly said I could pull out but I felt pbliged to go ahead, it was my mistake.
Carefully check.

Hmm...if the seller said that i could cancel, I would have...what's a "nought"?

crimesc324 Loc: West Palm Beach, Florida

a zero in U.S. english just like a zed is a zee

crimesc324 Loc: West Palm Beach, Florida

maybe you "ought" "nought" have done that

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

crimesc324 wrote:

a zero in U.S. english just like a zed is a zee

Wow....hopefully this OP didn't pay 10X the price..

10 vs 100.

viscountdriver Loc: East Kent UK

Didn't realise you don't have noughts in the US. I thought we'd taught you everything.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

viscountdriver wrote:

Didn't realise you don't have noughts in the US. I thought we'd taught you everything.

:)

tlbuljac Loc: Oklahoma

"carefully check" your spelling

viscountdriver wrote:

I did something stupid. I bid on Ebay for a new lens but, without realsing it I puit in an extra nought.Of course I won but at a bigger price than I wanted. The seller kindly said I could pull out but I felt pbliged to go ahead, it was my mistake.
Carefully check.

Big Stopper Loc: London

viscountdriver wrote:

I did something stupid. I bid on Ebay for a new lens but, without realsing it I puit in an extra nought.Of course I won but at a bigger price than I wanted. The seller kindly said I could pull out but I felt pbliged to go ahead, it was my mistake.
Carefully check.

Sounds very expensive!!!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

viscountdriver wrote:

I did something stupid. I bid on Ebay for a new lens but, without realsing it I puit in an extra nought.Of course I won but at a bigger price than I wanted. The seller kindly said I could pull out but I felt pbliged to go ahead, it was my mistake.
Carefully check.

You are allowed to withdraw a bid made by mistake and immediately replace it with the correct bid. What many people do is withdraw their bid, claiming it was a mistake, but they do not enter their "correct" bid. That happened to me with a car I was selling. The top bidder dropped out after several days - a day before the auction ended - claiming he had hit the wrong key. By then, the second highest bidder had started bidding on another car, so my car never got back up to the reserve price. I relisted the car, so I'm hoping it does better this time.

cockney greg Loc: London E17

viscountdriver wrote:

Didn't realise you don't have noughts in the US. I thought we'd taught you everything.

HA HA! Very funny, hopefully this will be seen in the tongue-in-cheek humour it was meant in. t made me laugh,but then,like you I,m a limey!!

creativ simon Loc: Coulsdon, South London

viscountdriver wrote:

I did something stupid. I bid on Ebay for a new lens but, without realsing it I puit in an extra nought.Of course I won but at a bigger price than I wanted. The seller kindly said I could pull out but I felt pbliged to go ahead, it was my mistake.
Carefully check.

double double check, expensive mistake

profpb Loc: Venice, Florida

viscountdriver wrote:

Didn't realise you don't have noughts in the US. I thought we'd taught you everything.

You taught us nought. We knew not to put too many zeros on ebay or Boston Bay.

sloscheider Loc: Minnesota

but shouldn't ebay have autobid just to the next highest bid increment from the other bidders? If other folks bid $75 and viscountdriver accidentally bid $800 instead of $80 and the bid increment was $1 eBay should have just dropped him in at $76

You should be able to bid $1,000,000 for a $20 item and be safe because it's extremely unlikely anyone else would bid it up much beyond it's market value. Even the seller can't see what your maximum bid is.

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Until a second person makes a similar mistake!

sloscheider wrote:

but shouldn't ebay have autobid just to the next highest bid increment from the other bidders? If other folks bid $75 and viscountdriver accidentally bid $800 instead of $80 and the bid increment was $1 eBay should have just dropped him in at $76

You should be able to bid $1,000,000 for a $20 item and be safe because it's extremely unlikely anyone else would bid it up much beyond it's market value. Even the seller can't see what your maximum bid is.