I propose adding in a confirmation dialog when you’re about to buy something at the buynow price, or at least when you’re trying to place a bid more than 10% higher than the buynow price. I think think this would help reduce careless mistakes like the one I just made.

Today, I attempted to place a bid for 3,000F when I accidentally placed one for 30,000F and a little “Are you sure?” dialog would have probably helped. Now I know this was of course my fault and 10,000F (the buynow price was only 13,000F) isn’t the end of the world, but I doubt it would be much trouble to add in something like that.

For the people who would be bothered by this a simple “Don’t show this again” checkbox should suffice. I imagine this would mostly be a win-win situation with the only cost being a little developement time.