sneakers
09-20-2007, 02:35 AM
Why the man shipped the bottle after it sold for only $300 is beyond me...he is more stupid for shipping the bottle, than for making the typo. I would have refunded the winners money, relisted the item, and taking the NPS-strike (you get 4 of them).
Original auction with typo: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270132264843
Auction of the Winner reselling without typo: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260145824374
http://www.luxist.com/2007/09/10/ebay-typo-costs-man-500-000/
EBay Typo Costs Man $500,000
Posted Sep 10th 2007 2:02PM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Spirits, Auctions
Shopping on eBay is supposed to be about finding bargains, and this summer a guy from Oklahoma ended up finding quite the deal. He was the winning bidder of a bottle of Allsopp's Arctic Ale in which the seller made a typo in his auction and spelled it "Allsops." The auction ended with very little interest and only 2 bids for the bottle that was obviously worth so much more than the winning bid of $304. And to make the mistake even more painful, that winning bidder turned around and listed the bottle again on eBay, but this time with the name spelled correctly, and got a whopping 157 bidders and a sale price of $503,300.
That's gotta hurt.
Original auction with typo: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270132264843
Auction of the Winner reselling without typo: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260145824374
http://www.luxist.com/2007/09/10/ebay-typo-costs-man-500-000/
EBay Typo Costs Man $500,000
Posted Sep 10th 2007 2:02PM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: Spirits, Auctions
Shopping on eBay is supposed to be about finding bargains, and this summer a guy from Oklahoma ended up finding quite the deal. He was the winning bidder of a bottle of Allsopp's Arctic Ale in which the seller made a typo in his auction and spelled it "Allsops." The auction ended with very little interest and only 2 bids for the bottle that was obviously worth so much more than the winning bid of $304. And to make the mistake even more painful, that winning bidder turned around and listed the bottle again on eBay, but this time with the name spelled correctly, and got a whopping 157 bidders and a sale price of $503,300.
That's gotta hurt.