A friend told me I should buy a certain NFT. This NFT is a Solana based one, and can be found on Magic Eden. THE marketplace/website for Solana NFTs. Awesome. You'd think at least.
But if you read on, you'll find that it's not that awesome after all.

Is it ME for Magic Eden or for Major Error?

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So I started trying to figure out how to bid on an NFT. Turns out, you have to transfer SOL to a bidding wallet. OK, done that.
So then I made a bid on the NFT I liked.
Worked perfectly.

However, after a day or so, I decided the bid was too low, and in order to actually be taken seriously on my bid, I'd have to shoot a bit higher.
So I cancelled the bid.
Worked perfectly too.
But now it begins...

Meanwhile, the NFT in question wasn't available anymore, and actually there were a few offered a bit cheaper than the one I went for the first time so I decided to pick one that I liked best, and made a bid close to what the asking price was. I was sure they'd let it go for $30 less than asking price. And that's where things went wrong...

I'd place a bid, and then started getting error messages right away.
First this:

Well, that doesn't sound promising, does it?
It doesn't.
But I still kept my fingers crossed,
and my hopes up that it'd somehow turn out ok.
It didn't.
Because then I got this:

Yeah, something definitely went wrong!

I did as I was told, and refreshed the page. Then tried again.
Nothing.
And again.
Again nothing.
Yup...again.
Nothing again.

I must have tried this about 20 times before I gave up and decided to get in touch with the MagicEden support. Lucky for me, they have a chat option and are pretty much available to answer questions 24/7. At least, that's what you think when you see their chat option...

It was all good in the beginning. I sent my ticket, explained what had been happening, what I had done, and how I tried to solve this issue without help.

The guy on the other end was fairly quick with his response, and offered a few solutions, all of which I had already tried. Just to make the guy happy, I tried it again.

I turned my VPN off and tried, nothing. Turned it back on: nothing. Tried a new incognito page. Nothing. Cleared my cookies and history: NADA.
I tried and I tried, and the result was nothing, nothing, nothing.

Then, I suggested that I'd try to change my browser. He hadn't even thought of that. So I did. Nothing. Different browser again: Nothing!
In all I tried 4 different browsers and nothing changed. I still received the same error messages.

And that's also the time when things on the other end changed. The guy I was talking to had vanished (I'd been talking to him on and off for about 3 days, so yeah, he probably had a day off), and whoever took over from him just didn't respond.

Until about 48 hours later...
So by this time, I had been trying to solve the issue for about 5 days, to no avail.
If it would have been an auction, there would have been no chance for me to get in.

And then the kicker: After all this time with his colleague, trying everything we could, this new agent asked the following question:

"Are you sure you have enough funds in your account?"

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Really?

Uhhhmmm...NO!
I ALWAYS try to spend more money than I have!
Why??
Is that not going to work?
Did I just spend 3 days trying, only to find out I am THAT stupid?
WOW!
Thanks man, you've just solved all of my issues!
I should just buy exactly what I can afford, and then I'll be fine (rolls eyes).
Yeah Mr. Know it all, of course I know that I can't bid more than what I have. Duh!

But when you thought that would have been it, then you'd be wrong.
Nope.
The guy couldn't just take my word for it.
He had to check.
Only so he could tell me: "I can see you bid 'x-amount' on it, and your wallet has 'x-amount', so you have sufficient funds..."

What a joke. I just fucking told you that I have enough funds. In fact, I told him exactly how much I had!
OK, so then you'd think your issue would be solved, right?
Now that he knew for 100% sure I wasn't lying to him?
You'd be wrong again though if you'd think that.
He tells me to hold on, and two hours later (!) he finally responds with:
'Everything is working on our end. So can you...followed by a list of all the things I'd already done 100 times by now."
By this time, I felt quite like Mr. Pitt below...

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I tried to explain to him as calmly as possible to FUCK off...
No, of course I didn't do that.
Trust me, I wanted to.
I'm too nice.
My mommy taught me better than that.
I told him that I had tried all of the things on his list,
many times, that I tried it again after he told me, and nothing worked.
He then went on to apologize and repeated that all was fine on their end.
So nothing they could do about it. Well, if I tried everything on my end, and that
hasn't helped, then it's obviously not fine on your end. But that could just be my opinion.
I wanted to ask him if another wallet might help but I left it at that.
I'm not sure it would make a difference.

Help!

Suggestions are welcomed!
If anyone has ANY idea on how to solve this problem, then please let me know.

Conclusion

I'm just very, VERY happy that in Hive and everything else built on Hive etc. just everything works smoothly, most of the time. Yes, of course, we have our issues at times, as everywhere else. But that's normal and it's usually not a huge issue in Hive, and if there is a problem, it's mostly solved in no time.

I didn't want to make this into a post full of complaints so I'm sorry if I bored you to death, but things like these just make me appreciate the Hive blockchain and everything built on it so much more. I think eventually, more people will realize just how much of a game changer we have here. And we will all be glad that we were here, from the beginning.

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