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I did notice an issue like this once while perusing through site feedback - apparently, you can ask for the item back and eventually the admins will respond and allow you to reclaim it. However, I believe the condition is that this can only be done once.

Ah, here it is:

Siskataya Quote:

Over the past year or so, if we were contacted by people about a mis-priced item, we have given many people the item back, removed the gold they got for it as a one-time removal, and warned them to be careful with pricing in the future. This has been done for Club Verge and non-Club Verge members, so it is in no way specific to spending on Gaia.

Clearly, we cannot go back years and years and handle issues of mis-pricing, but if someone else has an issue with mis-pricing a Marketplace item that occurred within the past year, they are certainly free to contact us via the Help Center with that issue and we'll be happy to look into the matter. If your friend contacted us recently and was told no, he/she is certainly free to re-open the ticket and ask for us to review the matter again.

Also, so everyone knows, we only do this once per account, so if one has a habit of mis-pricing items, then he/she needs to be careful about filing a request for this. What we cannot do is continually correct mis-pricing mistakes for the same account.


Click on the Contact Us link on the bottom of any Gaia page. Once at this page,
scroll down until you see the section titled "Still can't find your answer?" and click on the link that says Click Here.
Clicking this link will redirect you to the Help Center ticketing system.
pick General Account Inquiry as the Subject, Account Status as the Topic/Issues With Items/Gold.

Perfect, I already notified them. Surprisingly I did exactly what they expected lol. I'm glad this is the first time it has happened to me.

I hope you learned a lesson. Next time, be sure to check, double check and triple check all the fields to make sure they are correct before submitting that password to confirm.

As for misprices, well, that's the luck and misfortune one has. It's part of life's lessons to make sure you appropriately take caution when making important decisions, because you won't have that "Get out of Jail" free card.

The other user isn't guilty of anything. They caught your mistake, and I don't believe they should be punished for your mistake. If it were me: I would be upset, but take stock in what just happened to make sure it never happens again.

sad OMG that's awful!
I hope you get them back. I always double check now cause I've done it once before too, but it wasn't as expensive as those lovely wings. emotion_kirakira emo

It's interesting to read the replies to this one, especially since I've heard all of them before.

But no, it's never happened to me, and neither have I ever managed to buy a mispriced item. I hesitate. I fear a too-good-to-be-true price. Nothing on Gaia to me is worth my account, and I would rather not handle anything that could be botted or otherwise scammed, stolen, or innocently mispriced.

I certainly know how easy it can be to misprice, since I've caught myself numerous times a click away from letting something go for way too little. And I've felt that p***k of panic because something sold instantly, and I worry it was because I got my numbers wrong. I imagine I would try to ask the buyer to give me a little mercy, but I wouldn't expect anything. It's not too unusual that you didn't get a reply to your message.

I'm actually surprised that Gaia would allow the one-time return. It could so easily be abused by people who care little about trashing one account for the next, and I'm sure it is.

But my gut feeling knows it's blatantly rude and unkind for a buyer to keep a mispriced item, no matter the circumstances. Sure, there is a difference between hurting someone and harming someone in this, and it's certainly not killing anyone to lose digital wealth on an inconsequential entertainment website. However, it still hurts to know that someone is so eager to gain from your misfortune. I would think anyone with a moral compass would feel that guilty twinge at one point, but it's always more profitable and self serving to ignore that, isn't it?

I'm pretty sure you didn't want a sermon, and just want your item back so you can sell it at a good price.

Either way, it's a rude awakening. I'm still worried that I'll lose something valuable over a minor error. I hope you get your wings back. The world is already unkind enough. I'm sure you haven't earned that kind of massive loss just for missing a few zeros.

Good luck! I hope it gets resolved soon!