$92 Quadrillion Account Balance

[Satellite]

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/17/te...html?hpt=us_c2

New York (CNN) -- When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off.

The Pennsylvania PR executive's account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800.

That's $92 QUADRILLION (and change).

Money that would make Reynolds -- who also sells auto parts on eBay in his spare time -- the richest man in the world by a long shot.

Rich, as in more than a million times richer than Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim. And he's worth $67 billion.

Oh, if only.

"It's a curious thing. I don't know, maybe someone was having fun," Reynolds said.

So he logged online, and reality bit back. His account balance read $0. The correct amount.

PayPal admitted the error and offered to donate an unspecified amount of money to a cause of Reynolds' choice.

"This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood this was the case," PayPal said in a statement.

Before this incident, the most Reynolds ever made on PayPal was "a little over $1,000" selling a set of vintage BMW tires on eBay.

So what would the would-be quadrillionaire have done with all that cash?

"I probably would have paid down the national debt," he said.

[byakugan]

"I probably would have paid down the national debt,"

Yah sure. I understand patriotism but the country could have paid that debt itself if it didn't invest so much in other not so important things like militar technology.

Anyway I think they should have given him the choice of some money for himself or a bit more to a charity cause.

[Words]

His reaction is cute.

[KhainiWest]

"I probably would have paid down the national debt,"

Yah sure. I understand patriotism but the country could have paid that debt itself if it didn't invest so much in other not so important things like militar technology.

Anyway I think they should have given him the choice of some money for himself or a bit more to a charity cause.

Don't

[Lozmaster]

"I probably would have paid down the national debt,"

And he would have simultaneously caused the market to crash by introducing such a ridiculous amount of money.

Essentially this

[Polantaris]

The interesting mistake in this article is that it's actually a negative number. According to that statement he OWES $92 Quadrillion.

[Satellite]

The interesting mistake in this article is that it's actually a negative number. According to that statement he OWES $92 Quadrillion.

That's what I saw, but I thought I just didn't understand something.

[Polantaris]

That's what I saw, but I thought I just didn't understand something.

So in a regular US bank, a negative value would be displayed in parenthesis. So for example, if you owed $10 in a regular US bank it would be shown as ($10.00). However, PayPal will just give you a -$10.00. Sadly, I know this from experience.

[ChickenKiev]

I would have gone on a Cubing spree the likes of which no one had ever seen.

I would have cubed crap equipment just so I could cube them.

[Justin]

I would have gone on a Cubing spree the likes of which no one had ever seen.

I would have cubed crap equipment just so I could cube them.

And then you would have immediately either paid that money back or gone to jail.

[ChickenKiev]

And then you would have immediately either paid that money back or gone to jail.

I probably could have paid them back in Legendary Empress equipment.