You've made some pretty huge mistakes in your time, right?

Maybe you dropped your brand new iPhone out of a plane mid-flight,

or accidentally hit the gas instead of the brakes.

But whatever your goof-up was, it could have been a lot worse, and way more expensive.

You could have accidentally blown up two multi-million dollar aircraft,

sent a billion-dollar rocket to its doom, or sunk a ship

in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.

Suddenly your mistakes don't seem so bad, huh?

Well get ready to feel even better about your own blunders as we take a look at even

more of the most expensive mistakes in history. Okay, confession time. I make typos all the time. But none of my embarrassingly misspelled text or

tweets could come close to the mistake that eBay seller collector Dan made back in 2007. He'd listed

a bottle of all-sop's Arctic ale on the auction site, fully corked and complete with a wax seal,

which came with a laminated note.

The note from 1919 explained the bottle was one of a very limited collection

that had been brewed specifically for a polar voyage way back in 1852.

This certified it as a real and incredibly rare item,

one worth hundreds of thousands of dollars

to any avid brewers or beer specialist.

But collector Dan had made one massive mistake.

He'd missed a pee off his spelling of all soaps.

This was back in the day before most websites returned results for misspelled searches,

so the beer only received two bids.

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