Am I the only idiot that ever made this mistake?

[tobiasness]

    I made a listing for an item with a low opening bid of $10.95 to get things going. but I used a template set with buy it now, spaced out and didn't notice and some keen buyer saw it and grabbed itwithin an hour. I own my mistakes, its getting shipped this morning and probably not a huge loss.........

   But the time it took to list is gone gone gone. Good lesson to stick to selling your specialty(this was not that)

tobiasness

[brightlightbookseller]

That's one reason I have avoided using Sell Similar universally.  It almost always leads to some type of mistake, not often that bad (sorry), but still usually wrong details or something.

[broto_64]

I have made more boneheaded mistakes over the years than I care to remember.

[dirk12955]

Priced a $20.00 stamp at $2.00 and it sold in about 2 minutes.   

[redlinear]

Yep, at least twice a year

[bennotbill]

Way back in the day that used to be a bit of a game. Finding items that were clearly buy it now mistakes and buying them. But it was all dial-up then so it was a race with others playing the same game.

I would occasionally "win" one. Some would honour their mistake while others would say sorry no way. You just let it go then as you knew it was a mistake. But now buyers are a bit meaner, the seller would get a neg every time.

[gloryglorygifts]

I use sell similar only from my own listings but yeah, I've shot myself in the foot a few times with my prices not being right. Tough lesson to learn sometimes, but you are, at the very least, not alone! 

[reallynicestamps]

I once listed a Real Photo postcard of a "South Seas Cannibal"  for $15.

Without noticing that he was carrying a human head!

It sold to the French New Hebrides within minutes.

At least it went home.

[onefootflippers]

Two things here.

#1. Don't have any free shipping templates, put free shipping on an item manually or have a free shipping business policy and you will never end up giving free shipping by accident.

#2. If you never run auctions then you won't ever accidentally auction anything. 98 percent of the items auctioned on this site are commodity items that are not appropriate for auction format.

[chapeau-noir]

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@reallynicestamps wrote:

I once listed a Real Photo postcard of a "South Seas Cannibal"  for $15.

Without noticing that he was carrying a human head!

It sold to the French New Hebrides within minutes.

At least it went home.

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😲

Francopolynesian cooking - yum yum, tastes like chicken!

Mine is forgetting to change shipping for a cheap thing from priority to first class and ending up paying the buyer to take it off my hands.

[harborauction]

You are not alone!

A while back I bought 20 pieces of pretty rare railroad china at an auction, 5 different types. No ebay history on some so I was listing them as auctions. The best piece I put a start price of $129 on  and guess what?, it sold within minutes. Yes, I mistakenly listed as BIN. Within minutes another buyer messaged me saying he missed that one was it really sold, etc.

Sent him a message back explaining what I'd done and that I was going to list another auction style (I had 5 of these), he says if you want to sell it now I'll give you $400. Well OK then , sold him one and sold the rest for $395 BIN

Sorta hurt my feelings to sell the first for $129 but the fact that I was in them for about $30 each eased my pain a little

[kds99]

I consider this proof that there are MANY users scouring the site for bargains.

[stuff4divas]

@tobiasness   No, u r not the only idiot. Many, including myself, have made the same/similar and others.

When i first started selling, I use to print all my shipping labels at once, which resulted in me sending the wrong package to the wrong buyer a few times. So i stopped doing that and only print one at a time.

[iamalwaysright]

Didn’t Reebok do something like this here like tens of thousands of times and they got a bunch of sales and didn’t fill any of them. They ended up getting floods of negatives that got scrubbed by eBay.

[tobiasness]

Good story thanks. My mistake wasn't as pricey as yours! haha but sounds like you made out just fine.