I've got to talk about this. My first sortie on the ebay auction. I saw a musical instrument which looked OK and its bid was a low £36 . I thought I'd try bidding at £50 and wrote £50 . ebay didnt accept this as you're not supposedm to use £ signs etc. so I wrote 50,00 I was horrified when ebay shot straigt back with, "your bid of £5,000 has been accepted. I tried to cancel the bid but got completely lost, and couldn't find where to communicate with them. So I contacted my Visa firm who thought that it would be OK but to let them know if the money was claimed, and they would contest it. I have also just managed to get an e-mail to ebay to explain what has happened. I dont know what will happen, and I'm pretty twitched. Any words of comfort out there? Oh I did remember to print off the two pages with the figures on. How on earth they made that jump I dont know.