Have you ever lost an item out of stupidity ( elaborate )

[Tseng]

Spent like 3k twinking out a wiz alt, died an annoying death, logged out without getting my corpse then got suspended for 7 days like 12 hours later, so the corpse rotted. Nothing too bad, at least not like a lost FBSS. :P

[toyodafenninro]

In 2002 I was sitting in Sebilis and accidently deleted a manastone, thought it was a lightstone that my friend had looted for whatever reason while using my 60 wiz as a taxi. GM Namdarie was on Fennin back in those days, after Dynan. Namdarie was a good lil gnome and restored it on the spot. I actually got it back no less than 5 mins after I deleted it, he must have been free at the time. It was humorous, though, as I screamed obscenities in group chat, petitioned, gnome appears and gives me a new one. People were convinced I had a GM in my back pocket.

[guineapig]

I sold a Dark Reaver to a merchant recently right after leaving Guk. Worst part was the merchant wasn't full but he was asking something like 1200-1300pp for it which was more than the going rate. Considering that I was actually going to sell an item for change instead of just giving it to an alt I had to just leave it there. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[modog]

my friend and i were running an inpromtu keal arena raid one day. we were just trying to help some guildmates and other folks to get some armor drops for fun.

i was doing loot so my bags had inevitably filled up with loads of fs longswords. i was a 2x epic ranger and i had swappped out my off hand epic for a great sword of storms recently, so my epic was in my bag and it looked just like a normal longsword.

long story short, late that night i sold my epic as trash loot to a vendor. and all my attempts to reach a GM to get it back fell on deaf ears. this event took so much wind out of my sails i left the game soon afterward.

heh, even thinking about it now makes my stomach churn. hard to believe it still bugs me, but i no longer want to throw my comp out the window so i guess thats something.

[Eyry]

Had a nice random ogre back in the day by the name of Ethrugal who gave me an exe axe when I was a level 5 newb ogre warrior. At that time I thought it was the best damn item in the game. Needless to say I was deleting random things out of my inventory one day and the exe axe slipped onto my cursor and I deleted it on accident. I remember how I felt after I had deleted it. This was back in classic so it was a big deal to me. I was crushed...

[Mountaineer]

Last week i was camping Dino for about 10 hours. I ended up filling all my bags (with shit/junk as Dino only decent gem, a diamond, in the whole 10 hours). Well, I was swapping around with my manastone in between a kill and put it back in my "auto-inventory" after i looted something else, and I had no room, and it dropped to the ground. Went AFK before next respawn. Came back when dino spawned again and was at like 90% mana and was going to stone up to 100% before i pulled....but i couldnt find my stone. I was freaking out. Then I saw some "ice cream cone/rokyls crystal looking" thing on the ground under the old corpse and quickly grabbed it before it rotted. It was on the ground about 5 minutes. Not sure the rot time of something on the ground, but it had to have been close! lol

[quellren]

Kunark:
I usually keep an open inventory slot for things I want like lightstones, or anything with a clicky effect. Camping with my Paladin main in Karnor I looted a backpack and moved my Jboots from that open slot to inside the backpack. Hours later I sold that backpack to a merchant in FV.

It wasn't until I opened my inventory to click my jboots for the run back that it dawned on me what I had just done. I was literally sick to my stomach and so furious I just sat there for like 5 minutes. I told my group I had to go and petitioned, but the GM essentially told me "You should be more careful next time". I quit playing for like a month.
When I did come back I sold all my gear, got paid a large sum of plat to be sacc'd down and never played that Paladin again.
Then I rolled a shaman and never looked back.

[Braveguard]

Let's just say that Soulfire looks a lot like a bronze two hander and you should check really closely before hitting that sell button.

(A rather patronistic GM saved me. Hey, I got the sword back so he could patronize all he wanted.)

[Lagaidh]

Only twice:

1) Live - L15 paladin or so. I'd been solo farming dervs in SRO: a painfully slow process and rough to break a camp full of casters. I was farming bronze weaps and such for cash to buy the components for a STR / DEX ring? Emerald ring? Can't remember. Anyway, I'd saved the 60 or so plat for the gem and bars. I auctioned for a jeweler and some fellow says he can do the combine. I hand him my materials and am greeted with: "Soandso tells you, 'Well, you have just been scammed, haha!"

2) I sold my RMB to a merchant (swapped out CHA gear). They were a good 1200p at the time and that HURT! The vendor had enough items that it didn't show up in the list and I didn't know about buying the trash to get other items to show.

[Lagaidh]

After reading some of these Live stories, I'm so surprised at the resistence to restore items that take so long to obtain. I suppose the powers that be felt that attrition to broken spirit was okay with their current subscription numbers.

I always thought customer service then was abhorrent. I dealt with a GM/guide/Cust Svc once: I'd gotten stuck in geometry prior to that slash command that could move you a tad. The GM that came to help me hours later could only berate me for wasting time.

I just don't get it with the items: the joy and sense of achievement for getting something can be completely reversed 180 degrees by losing them in trivial ways with a "Tough Shit" response.