ozzfan84
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So as many of you all know, the color Mummy PF is the only one I need to complete my Uni Horror collection.
Last Spook, I was one of the first people to the page when they had the second chance offer for the SSE one, but I clicked it before they switched it from waitlist to in stock. I ended up placing a waitlist order during the time they switched it back to in stock.
Today, I thought the stars would align. I watched an auction that started at $450 with no bids all week. It was scheduled to end today. When I got to work, I found that the computers were down. This might have been related to the hurricane everyone thought was coming. I called my gf who told me no worries, she'd put in my maximum bid when the time was right.
I checked in with her 15 minutes before the auction ended and all was well. She was logged in to my ebay account and there were only 2 bids... it was only at $475!
I called back when the auction ended and my gf was very upset. She said she tried and tried, but when she entered my final bid, ebay asked for the username and password again and would not accept the password! She missed the auction and it ended at $475!!!
Now my first thought was to assume she just typed in the password wrong, but she assured me she tried over and over again. I called up ebay to explain the problem, and they confirmed that it was a "site error" that caused her to not be able to enter the password and place a bid! It sounded like they were having a party in the background, and the guy really didn't care when I told him my bid was going to be $1056 and it ended at $475 because of ebay's fault.
I contacted the seller, but it doesn't seem to bother him. I'm sure I wasn't the only person who was going to bid in the last couple of minutes. Because of ebay's site problems, I wasn't able to bid literally double than it was going for.
So now someone walked off with a sweet deal and I feel completely sick that I didn't even have a shot at it because ebay wouldn't let me place a bid. I know I could have bid earlier, but I've been on ebay for 11 years and I've never had trouble bidding on things while an auction is in session.
I'm starting to feel like I've been affected by the Mummy's curse!
Last Spook, I was one of the first people to the page when they had the second chance offer for the SSE one, but I clicked it before they switched it from waitlist to in stock. I ended up placing a waitlist order during the time they switched it back to in stock.
Today, I thought the stars would align. I watched an auction that started at $450 with no bids all week. It was scheduled to end today. When I got to work, I found that the computers were down. This might have been related to the hurricane everyone thought was coming. I called my gf who told me no worries, she'd put in my maximum bid when the time was right.
I checked in with her 15 minutes before the auction ended and all was well. She was logged in to my ebay account and there were only 2 bids... it was only at $475!
I called back when the auction ended and my gf was very upset. She said she tried and tried, but when she entered my final bid, ebay asked for the username and password again and would not accept the password! She missed the auction and it ended at $475!!!
Now my first thought was to assume she just typed in the password wrong, but she assured me she tried over and over again. I called up ebay to explain the problem, and they confirmed that it was a "site error" that caused her to not be able to enter the password and place a bid! It sounded like they were having a party in the background, and the guy really didn't care when I told him my bid was going to be $1056 and it ended at $475 because of ebay's fault.
I contacted the seller, but it doesn't seem to bother him. I'm sure I wasn't the only person who was going to bid in the last couple of minutes. Because of ebay's site problems, I wasn't able to bid literally double than it was going for.
So now someone walked off with a sweet deal and I feel completely sick that I didn't even have a shot at it because ebay wouldn't let me place a bid. I know I could have bid earlier, but I've been on ebay for 11 years and I've never had trouble bidding on things while an auction is in session.
I'm starting to feel like I've been affected by the Mummy's curse!