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I quickly logged on to Orbitz selected my dates and clicked purchase. I received an email from Orbitz confirming my purchase and then got to job planning the trip. My husband was out with friends and had left his cell phone at home so I was hoping he'd come home just tipsy enough to not mind that I'd just bought $1100 worth of plane tickets without discussing it with him first. Besides he is accustomed to me buying plane tickets on a whim just since they are on sale.

Luckily he was just love excited as I was....until Saturday morning when I received an email from Orbitz saying that due to "limited quantities" our order could not be fulfilled. As it turns out it's because the fare never should have existed. Someone at BA obviously messed up (how'd you like to be that person come Monday morning?) and entered the wrong number. The fare should have been more like $1550 per person. The fat finger fare was corrected except not before several people myself included had bought tickets at the faulty price.

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