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<p>[QUOTE="Seattlite86, post: 2912652, member: 59737"]Not my biggest mess up, but rather embarrassing. I'm currently living in Germany and just bid on the Prestige Set of my birth year. I was going to get it for under $20, based on the bids. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was in a hurry and the bid was really low, just a couple minutes out, so I put in 7.95 as my bid and rush clicked through both windows. </p><p><br /></p><p>If I did that in the US, I'd be bidding less than $20, shipping included, for the set. In Germany, they use commas instead of periods to delineate euros and euro cents. That means I bid $795 and won it for a whopping $60 with shipping included. I just spent 3x what I was hoping to on something I really didn't even want, just thought it was a great deal. Go me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Seattlite86, post: 2912652, member: 59737"]Not my biggest mess up, but rather embarrassing. I'm currently living in Germany and just bid on the Prestige Set of my birth year. I was going to get it for under $20, based on the bids. I was in a hurry and the bid was really low, just a couple minutes out, so I put in 7.95 as my bid and rush clicked through both windows. If I did that in the US, I'd be bidding less than $20, shipping included, for the set. In Germany, they use commas instead of periods to delineate euros and euro cents. That means I bid $795 and won it for a whopping $60 with shipping included. I just spent 3x what I was hoping to on something I really didn't even want, just thought it was a great deal. Go me. :banghead:[/QUOTE]
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