EBay Typo Costs Man $500,000 - Land Rovers Only

apbtpetey · 09-18-2007, 06:07 PM

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.

WCURoverD90 · 09-18-2007, 06:09 PM

Damn that will make you sick to your stomach.....

toyota_jon · 09-18-2007, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by apbtpetey

a bottle of Allsopp's Arctic Ale

pardon my ignorance but what is this ale?

TsiArt · 09-18-2007, 06:51 PM

http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read/1068558

ArmyRover · 09-18-2007, 06:52 PM

I'm with him what is so special about it?

ArmyRover · 09-18-2007, 06:54 PM

still wouldn't be worth half a mill to me unless the brewery came with it

rmuller · 09-18-2007, 07:26 PM

It's basically worth so much because its a museum piece ... the history that goes behind it.. follow that link to BA to read more about it..

Buddy Lee · 09-18-2007, 08:00 PM

I guess they guy never heard of setting a reserve price either? If only stupidity hurt.

ArmyRover · 09-18-2007, 08:03 PM

I read that but there is still no way I would pay that much for a bottle of beer.

JungleRR · 09-18-2007, 08:32 PM

Elemental · 09-19-2007, 10:36 AM

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brewed for the 1852 Expedition to the Arctic lead by Sir Edward Belcher.

Beer brewed for a guy named Belcher!!!

TsiArt · 09-19-2007, 10:58 AM

I wouldn't pay that much ether , cause i don't have that kind of money for a beer botle that I can't even enjoy that beer .

09-18-2007, 06:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
apbtpetey Support Our Troops Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Hudson Valley, NY Posts: 3,419 Gallery: 0	EBay Typo Costs Man $500,000 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. __________________ John Conklin LRO Moderator

09-18-2007, 06:09 PM	#2 (permalink)
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TsiArt Polish and proud of it. Join Date: May 2005 Location: East Haven, CT Posts: 613 Gallery: 0	I wouldn't pay that much ether , cause i don't have that kind of money for a beer botle that I can't even enjoy that beer . __________________ I'm a Proud owner of a vehicle that has a turning Radius of 747 Check out our Frappr! Myspace ? It dose not mather who votes, only matters who counts the votes _ Krushchew

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