Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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eBay.
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Edit: Just remembered. A runner-up, almost expensive mistake:
Picture me, several years younger and dumber, on the phone with a smooth-talking sales rep for somethingorother. I can't remember most of the conversation, but I desperately wanted to get back to the tv, and was hoping that playing along would get the whole business settled a lot faster.
To make a long story short, I signed up for something, got off the phone and figured that was the end of it. A few days later, I get a bill in the mail for what would have eventually amounted to about 2,000$ for a single magazine subscription, had I not immediately phoned them back in a cold sweat and demanded that the service be cancelled. Still ended up having to pay some fee, but it could have been a lot worse.
(, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 21:17, Reply)
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