The dangers of Autofill - I'm hoping I can laugh!...

[JBMarigold]

This is actually true, but I hope I can laugh after I've made some phone calls on Tuesday!...


I bought two tickets on line last night for a writers' festival. I scrolled down to enter the personal details and hit Autofill then BUY. The next window told me I was successful and I'd get a confirmation email.
I DID get that email, confirming I'd bought my two tickets AND TICKETS TO TWO DINNERS that were on a separate page!!!

Worse than that, Autofill had used my phone number for the number of tickets for each dinner!!! 

Apparently, my VISA has now been charged $81,033,513,555.00... yes, that's $81 BILLION!

It exceeds my limit by just a smidge... I'll be interested to see what my bank does here (assuming wets itself laughing and ignores) and whether I've thrown a small organization's system into total chaos!

Otherwise I'll need 39.528 million friends to take to dinner with me!

[blondie1973]

WOW!!! I hope you get it all sorted without it costing you too much

[eveready]

Oh JB, thats a shocker!lol
 It's a wonder it went thru. Goodluck with it

[angfio71]

toooo funny

[sandybottoms]

Dangers indeed.  And on a long weekend.  Can you not contact the bank before Tuesday?  IN the meantime you can put your writing skills to good use by drafting a letter of apology and begging for a reversal of a fortune.  Good luck 

[Luck_E_Unicorn]

LOL!!!! That is seriously hilarious!
I sure hope you can get is sorted!

[Blossom]

Shock doesn't come close, heck I can feel the icy cold dread, the stab of pure panic and the lol of it all at once just reading your predicament  , I hope all gets sorted tomorrow JB.  Even though I've had a few oops moments with autofill I don't think I'll ever complain again after reading about that one! 

[sylph]

I thought that sort of stuff only happened to the Sylph family!

Hilarious JBMarigold, I do hope you get it sorted out and the other parties involved aren't going to be mongrels about it.

[Ruffles]

That is so funny JB.....you have made me laugh!!!!!  Imagine the size of the restaurant they would need to cater for you and all your friends!!!!!! 
Hope it is all sorted with a minimum of fuss.....I mean surely they will realise it is a mistake!!!!!
I will be double checking my autofills from now on!!!!!

[grumpyswife]

Otherwise I'll need 39.528 million friends to take to dinner with me!

Count Mr Grumpy and me IN!!...lol

[JBMarigold]

All sorted!

A quick phone call this morning revealed that online bookings generate a list of emails that someone manually enters (today) as internet bank payments.

So nothing had gone through to my bank and a booking for $81 billion would have been intercepted anyhow.

Just hope they don't have me black-listed as 'the dingbat to be shadowed while on site'...   

[Littlenen]

A reasonable resolution, good story well told, and a lesson to us all.  Of on line bookings beware!

[T217TT]

No doubt a story to tell in years to come.

The day you spent $81 billion on dinner.

He he!

[spog777]

Blimey you handled that well-Id have chewed my nails down the knuckles by the end of the weekend and then become more distraught to find out that because i have sore short fingers i couldnt dial up the fix the problem 

[snuggle1]

Whoops...and...Yikes!

Consider yourself fortunate, it could have been the equivalent of $81 billion in UK terms (1 billion = 1million million).

Glad to have read that there was a positive resolution.

[fizzybubbles]

Shock doesn't come close, heck I can feel the icy cold dread, the stab of pure panic and the lol of it all at once just reading your predicament  , I hope all gets sorted tomorrow JB.  Even though I've had a few oops moments with autofill I don't think I'll ever complain again after reading about that one! 

that is the exact same reaction i had when i read your post.  really glad that it worked out for you.