Ever put a Lot number in as a Bid? I made a BIG mistake tonight

Ever put a Lot number in as a Bid? I made a BIG mistake tonight on an unnamed auction site. I buy ~$300 coins, but pasted in an auction lot number, and placed a $4000+ bid on a $2000 coin. OOPS!!!!

The funny thing is, I caught it before I hit submit on a page of bids, and cleared the erroneous bid. Box was nice and clear. Then I submitted rest of bids and to my horror it took this cleared lot number! I wonder if it was cached or something? Anyway, it is some sort of site bug, and I cant be the only person who has ever been hit by it.

Well, I emailed them and told them please cancel. No way they are getting $4000+ out of me, I dont even have $400, LOL.

I still feel dumb. I'll let you know what ends up happening. I might be a few Kidneys short in the coming weeks.

 

Sadly I'm not really joking. I'm too damn poor for this hobby.

I had a spreadsheet of lots that I wanted to bid on, and was moving down the list and putting in bids and checking out coins, bouncing around and replying on CT, and generally having a good time. However, at one point I pasted a lot number into the wrong box, meaning, I was trying to jump to another lot from a page I was viewing a nice coin that I could never afford, instead of the LOT box I pasted into the bid box and hit enter. I then got the confirmation page, realized my error, cleared that one bid, and then submitted the other bid. And then I was like, ohhh snap, I guess my kids aren't eating for the next month.

 

Well, they know who I am, I've bought coins there before. They dont have a cc on file, or a bank, thank the lord. But I am fairly confident they will kill the bid, since there are still 10+ days left, and I clearly fat-fingered it. Also, I should be able to replicate the site bug, where you clear it on the confirmation screen and then it still takes the bid. If anything, I may have caught a major bug for them, maybe I'll get a reward??

 

Okay, so I just tested my theory, and I was easily able to replicated the BUG. I can show them tomorrow if they care to fix it. Its quite simple, if you clear a bid on the confirmation page and then submit other bids at the same time, all your bids will be recorded, including for the cleared [empty] lot for the value you formerly had in the box. Sort of an embarrassing bug IMHO, and a dangerous one!

 

Yeah, Ian at GC is great. They cancelled a bid for me when I thought a coin was XXX but it was really YYY.

 

Ahh, brutal!

 

Yeah, not eBay.

UPDATE: I had to email twice but they are going to take care of it for me, and also are looking into my bug.

PHEW!