Take a look at PayPal’s $92 quadrillion mistake

Ouch. When it comes to PayPal blunders, at least in monetary terms, this is pretty much the biggest we’ve ever seen.

When PR executive Chris Reynolds opened his account on the online payment service, he was more than a little surprised to see that he’d been credited with US$92 233 720 368 547 800. If all those numbers make you feel a little dizzy, putting it in words (US$92-quadrillion with some serious change) probably won’t help matters.

Reynolds, who sells auto parts on eBay in his spare time, was understandably a little confused when he saw the figure, so he logged off and locked back in.

There must have been a part of him that was seriously disappointed when his balance went back to $0.

“It’s a curious thing, I don’t know maybe someone was having fun,” Reynolds said.

For its part, PayPal admitted the error and offered to pay an unspecified amount of money to a charity of Reynolds’ choice.

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

Speaking to CNN, Reynolds revealed what he would’ve done with the money.

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

Until now, the most money Reynolds has made from eBay was US$1 000 for a set of vintage BMW tyres.