Deleting collections after receiving achievement

[Petrie.1749]

When I was in the process of working on may Griffon. I noticed that I had too many collection items in my bag after I had received the achievement. I deleted 1 item to see what would happen. Looked up my achievement and it showed incomplete. This has to be a bug, now I have my bag and bank full of collections.  This ridiculous. Help.  Arenanet suggested I go to Forums and try to resolve it before submitting a ticket. Help.

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

You can look up any item in the Wiki (link above) to learn it's purpose/value.

Right-clicking and following the link on the item will also show if it's already in the collection. 

[Petrie.1749]

It was already in the collection, thou when I deleted it, it was removed from my achievement. It showed my Achievement was no longer complete.

[Linken.6345]

Nah if it was in the collection it wont get removed

 

[Danger Ferret.6342]

3 hours ago, Petrie.1749 said:

When I was in the process of working on may Griffon. I noticed that I had too many collection items in my bag after I had received the achievement. I deleted 1 item to see what would happen. Looked up my achievement and it showed incomplete. This has to be a bug, now I have my bag and bank full of collections.  This ridiculous. Help.  Arenanet suggested I go to Forums and try to resolve it before submitting a ticket. Help.

This seems unlikely as it would require some sort of transactional database rollback to un-mark the achievement, I would think. Is it at all possible you had simply completed a tier of the achievement, and mistook the tier status updating flashing by as finishing the achievement?

 

I don't have any reason to doubt what you're saying, but outside of anyone possibly offering a set of alternative circumstances that turns out to be the case, I don't see how anyone but customer service could help.

[Petrie.1749]

I honestly do not know. Thou, hesitantly I will start to remove them from my bank tab. I am just done with it. If it happens again i will make sure to print screen. Thou, now it does not matter I am done with this stuff. Thank you ever so much for your replies, very much appreciated.