diff --git a/eventstore/boltdb/save.go b/eventstore/boltdb/save.go
index becad74..1fd6e00 100644
--- a/eventstore/boltdb/save.go
+++ b/eventstore/boltdb/save.go
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ func (b *BoltBackend) SaveEvent(evt nostr.Event) error {
 		// check if we already have this id
 		bin := rawBucket.Get(evt.ID[16:24])
 		if bin != nil {
-			// we should get nil, otherwise end here
+			// we should get nil, otherwise we already have it so end here
 			return eventstore.ErrDupEvent
 		}
 
diff --git a/eventstore/lmdb/save.go b/eventstore/lmdb/save.go
index f062b39..b6cb054 100644
--- a/eventstore/lmdb/save.go
+++ b/eventstore/lmdb/save.go
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 
 	"fiatjaf.com/nostr"
-	"fiatjaf.com/nostr/eventstore"
 	"fiatjaf.com/nostr/eventstore/codec/betterbinary"
 	"github.com/PowerDNS/lmdb-go/lmdb"
 )
@@ -28,12 +27,12 @@ func (b *LMDBBackend) SaveEvent(evt nostr.Event) error {
 
 		// check if we already have this id
 		_, err := txn.Get(b.indexId, evt.ID[0:8])
-		if operr, ok := err.(*lmdb.OpError); ok && operr.Errno != lmdb.NotFound {
+		if operr, ok := err.(*lmdb.OpError); ok && operr.Errno == lmdb.NotFound {
 			// we will only proceed if we get a NotFound
-			return eventstore.ErrDupEvent
+			return b.save(txn, evt)
 		}
 
-		return b.save(txn, evt)
+		return err
 	})
 }