Dismissed, loser.
Thanks bye
Does Classic AH not have a pop up warning before you actually list? Like a “Are you sure?” warning?
I don’t have much sympathy for OP in terms of them making a mistake. He made a mistake, and that’s on him.
I do take issue though with automation of gameplay.
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Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Sympathy: feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune.
Which is the one you’re looking for, now? Because I can certainly empathize with your situation. Pricing something wrong and having someone buy it before you can cancel it feels pretty lousy. Been there, done that, learned the lesson the hard way. I have plenty of empathy.
I don’t, however, have much sympathy, especially since you seem determined to blame everyone but yourself for the fact that it happened. Some of the best lessons one can learn are those that result from making a mistake, and yet you don’t seem inclined to learn from this mistake since you’re focused more on denigrating the person who lucked out and got a great deal on the item you priced lower than you should have. Your situation is not one that warrants pity or sorrow, in my opinion.
All you can do is learn from what happened, move on and be more careful when listing auctions in the future. Or, you know, keep complaining about how it’s not your fault. That’s always an option, I suppose. 
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Is anyone else curious about what this item actually was and what price the OP planned to put it up for was to be? A guildmate of mine got a SoJ drop last night and about lost his mind, and I was “cool. Congrats. Now let me kill this buzzard, I need his wings”.
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OP: Be sure to look up the difference between “burn” and “seriously, nuclear burn”.
It is not sniping because the moment you pressed enter you agreed to selling the item regardless of the price being what you wanted it to be. The lucky person who was searching the AH for some gear saw a great deal an collected on it. You were simply made to uphold your side of the deal before you could back out and set the price to what you originally intended.
Rember, a single click can at times be as legally binding as a real life signature.
Also if you are selling something as rare and valuable as a purple on the AH it might be a good idea to set the bid price to be higher than 1 gold, unless of course you somehow accidentally set both the buyout price and bid price to be silver as well. Just food for thought.
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Maybe be more careful?
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If I go to the store and they have a delicious snickers bar advertised for 5 cents, I will pay them 5 cents for it. If they realize they made a mistake after said snickers bar is in my belly, I feel no guilt for said act. It was posted for 5 cents, I paid 5 cents, they accepted my 5 cents, I enjoyed a delicious snickers.
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True story: I was shopping for a computer desk at Wal-Mart (laugh all you want, it lasted me 5+ years and I only got rid of it because I moved tot he other side of the planet) and found a really nice one for $38. So I took it up to the register and it rang up as $83. I told them I was paying $38. Retailers being retailers, I held up the entire line and walked back with an employee who verified the $38 tag matched the SKU.
I walked out with an $83 desk for $38 and laughed about it when I got home and realized someone was gonna get reamed for not paying attention to the tags. Their screw-up, not mine.
Your behavior suggest that it was not very important or valuable to you. Pay attention, and check carefully.
Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, whether out of carelessness or sheer bad luck.
And then they immediately fix them by cancelling the auction, because they immediately double-checked their listing price to be absolutely sure they didn’t screw it up.
Can you read?
This was in late Burning Crusade.
Twink items easily went for 100 gold then. The leg enchants themselves were hundreds.
So why are you talking about them here? “Oh I inaccurately listed boots that in a few years might be worth something and they sold!”
Are you seriously so moronic you don’t get what I’m implying?
I sold them in 2008 when they were worth something?
Perhaps this is just a bad attempt at time-travel humor?
So why do I give a damn in 2019, on a classic forum aimed at a classic server, about what you did in 2008?
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I don’t care whether or not you care, you are irrelevant in my life and the post was not intended for you in the first place. You clearly have an issue understanding the concept behind it, or are too proud in that testosterone pumped body at this point to back down, so you’ll continue making bold, pseudo aggressive statements like “why should I care what you did in 2008?” which have nothing to do with the actual concept of my post or the intent of this thread.
Keep posturing, it looks good.
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They don’t auto buy. people need to look into these addons before making such claims about them.
The problem is, a large number of the people that are sniping auctions are botting. I accidentally posted 5 items for 1c below vendor price last night because I forgot to check the starting price before hitting create auction. All 5 were INSTANTLY bought the second it was posted.
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You screwed up, learn from it and move on.