# Sent BTC Pay after order had expired

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 9, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/sent-btc-pay-after-order-had-expired/4145 "2017-12-09T04:01:58Z")\
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People make mistakes with BTC Pay… Because of that we removed support for it in Counterwallet…

It seems you used the API correctly (i.e. unlike some other dude who just sent BTC to the seller’s address and never got anything, you used the API)

```sh
counterparty-client btcpay \
--source=mtQheFaSfWELRB2MyMBaiWjdDm6ux9Ezns \
--order-match-id=092f15d36786136c4d868c33356ec3c9b5a0c77de54ed0e96a8dbdd8af160c23

```

The error ‘order match expired’ means you didn’t pay within 20 blocks (or whatever it is) from the block when your offer got matched with the seller.

I think your transaction should simply fail (i.e. the tx fee you paid will be wasted, but the BTC used to pay for the order will likely return). @loon3 do you know what happens in this case?

> [@Manual BTC Sell-ing on the Counterparty Distributed Exchange (DEx) using counterparty-client](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/manual-btc-sell-ing-on-the-counterparty-distributed-exchange-dex-using-counterparty-client/1184):
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> NOTE:The market command was removed from counterparty-client after this article was published, so the approach described in this post cannot be used verbatim (because market was removed, one would have to obtain DEx market information elsewhere (there are several community sites that offer it; you can also use the API), and do the rest with counterparty-client). Certain wallets and applications that utilize the Counterparty API continue to retain the full ability to trade BTC on the Counterpart…

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